For anyone who ever said 70s #Fenders would never be cool (including me, when I was a very naive youth!), I give you "Wayne", a heavily play-worn and patina-ed 1971 #Telecaster, owned by @colinjcripps. . Colin recently acquired the #guitar from its original owner, Wayne Mack, a Guelph (Ontario) based singer, song writer, entertainer, recording artist, and, according to his business card...comedian! I LOVE that on top of his music-related job titles, he also considered comedy as part of his act! Waune was just an old fashioned all-round entertainer...a quintuple threat! 😀 . Wayne Mack played this guitar..A LOT.. in the (apparently smokier than we though at the time!) bars and honky-tonks of Southern Ontario, Canada for the better part of the last 50 years, amassing an impressive amount of wear, checking, stickers, dents, dings, and an overall depth of character (i.e. nicotine damage! 😂) that you just can't get on a guitar nowadays. He is now retired and passed the guitar along to Colin, who had great Toronto luthier and guitar tech @alastair_miller give it some TLC, and will now hopefully be able to keep Wayne's live entertainment legacy alive for many more years as he takes it out to play with his regular bands @bluerodeoofficial and @kittythefool! . PS: backdrop courtesy of the @terry_foster carpet collection. 😉 Photographic assistance by @michaelsegui. 📷 . . #fenderfriday #Fender #guitars #teletuesday #fendertelecaster #Tele #waynemack #vintageguitar #vintagefender #fenderguitar #guitarphotography #colincripps #bluerodeo #kathleenedwards (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVn0JheJUqS/?utm_medium=tumblr
