Ron Kirn Custom Telecaster

21 Frets Mahogany Body with a Wild Maple book matched top, finished in real Transparent Cherry Nitrocellulose lacquer. Fender Custom Shop Texas Special in the Neck position and a Seymour Duncan ST 59 in the bridge. Talk about a screamer. The Mahogany is a one piece, not really necessary with a book matched top, but Ron is a stickler for those kinds of details. The body is formed in much the same way the Vintage Fenders were done 50 years ago, none of that computer made crud in this baby. I give it a ten because that???s as high as I can go. The same guitar, if made by one of the Custom Shops would have cost at least $5000.00. No problems, no complaints, none nada . . . I???m as happy as a Kitten on a Catnip farm

My Tele was created in 2005 By Ron Kirn of Jacksonville FL. Sound?? I can???t shut the thing up.. every time I look at it is screams to be played???With the combination of the Texas Special and the SD pickups, I can play just about anything they throw at me. Screaming Shred or Twangy Blues, it???s all there, I can take my Fender Deluxe, and mike it for a small session, or pump the output into a rack and process the cra* out of it. It???s kind of like the universal guitar. Nothing sounds wrong on it. It can growl with the best of ???em, wait.. it IS the best of em. This has become my ???go to??? baby, and I protect it with a pit bull. No, I never sit it down between the Drummer and the bar, never. That???s guitar suicide. To sum it up, the sound is phenomenal, it turns heads constantly. The only drawback is having to watch it constantly, everyone wants a piece of ???er, and that is NOT going to happen.

Yeah, 10 again???. No kidding. The action was TO GOOD. My old fingers couldn???t feel the strings. The action was so fast I had to crank it up a few turns so I could feel what I was doing. After I had it for a few months he actually called me to check on ???er. I was ashamed to tell him what I did. He laughed and said that I wasn???t the first. The finish is his New Old Stock Finish. It???s NOT reliced, it obviously is new, but has just enough character so it doesn???t look like a ???New Suit???. There???s a word.. Ummm Yeah.. Beautiful says it all. The Soft V neck with the rolled edges left me speechless. It has the sweetest feeling, the finest playing neck, I have ever experienced.

Well it???s a Tele, there isn???t much that can go wrong with them, unless you screw up and sit it down between the Drummer and. . . whatever . . . during a break. What is it with drummers? The parts it???s made of are all of superior quality. You can???t wear out a Mercedes, and I???m sure this baby will out live me, my kids, and the War on Terror. As for durability, repeat of the above, while I will take care of something this beautiful, you can be sure it would endure being used as a weapon in a mass riot.

Like this should even be considered. Ron is always there. When you buy one of his guitars you have a new friend. Try getting to know the guy that built your guitar if you got it from Fender or Gibson. Ron has always answered any question. It doesn???t matter what the topic, Politics, BMW???s, Golf or Guitars, he???s there day and night. I have no doubts should the impossible happen and the Drummer finds my Tele, Ron, will be there in a heartbeat. One thing, while building the thing, he was constantly quizzing me to be certain I would wind up with the guitar I needed. He did not force any decision on me, but gently steered me. The results are spectacular. He sent me a few photos of other guitars he???s done, to assist in my decision making process. Ask him to send you a few of the ???Rocky??? Strat he did, Jeez???.. It would blow George Harrison???s mind. All in all, if you want a friend that knows guitars and will bend over backward to be certain you are happy, you have found your man.

Darn, I can only give it a 10 again. Like most musicians, I have a room full of guitars, all for a certain sound. Ron???s Tele is so versatile I have began selling some of the others, I just don???t need ???em any more. I just do not see how someone can take the same parts that any large manufacturer has at their disposal and create something that is so obviously superior to the norm. Perhaps he uses Pixie dust when no one is looking. I really don???t know, but I???ll tell you, other than the shape and basic tone, there is no comparison, and I have been comparing for a very long time. I had no idea one Telecaster could feel, sound and play so radically superior to all the others I have had the opportunity to encounter during my playing career.

Quit reading this stuff and just do it, you know you want it. Go for it.