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Author:  John Mayes [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:35 pm ]
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well hopefully.

Some of you met my long time friend Steve Miller (not THAT steve miller)
at healdsburg. He was helping me out at my table.

Anyway he is playing for a Pop star dude named Ryan Cabrera and was on
Regis and Kelly, MTV already this year. Well he has had a guitar on order,
and I finally finished it off today and sent it off to california. He is going
to be playing with Ryan on the Tonight Show (Jay Leno) on Monday night
and hopefully if the post office comes through he'll be playing the guitar I
built him!! I'm pretty stoked. Later this year he will be on Letterman,
Jimmy Kimmel, and maybe others like SNL, and more.

Here are some pics of the guitar. IT is a totally hollow (excpt for the part
right around the bridge) tele style guitar (My Model H) with a spruce top,
and ash body, maple neck with dark toner, and a rosewood fretboard.
The finish is what fender used for a few guitars back in the early-mid
60's. Has VanZandt pickups and a bigbsy. Watch Jay Leno monday night
and hopefully he'll be playing it!!











More pics here: http://mayesguitars.com/images/stevemillerJohn Mayes38639.9021527778
Author:  WalterK [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:52 pm ]
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Beautiful guitar John...
It should not be difficult to spot.
Congrat's on the commission!!
You did a swell job.

Walter
Author:  jfrench [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:17 pm ]
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Thats great! I'm going to watch Leno and have a look. That is one VERY cool tele.
Author:  Don Williams [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:30 pm ]
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Gorgeous axe. Great colors. I want one!
Author:  Shane Neifer [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:30 pm ]
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YAYE!! John. More Hero's in our mist!! Well guys that we can be proud of!

Beautiful little axe!

Nicely done.

Shane
Author:  TimDet [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:42 pm ]
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Ryan Cabrera does a show on MTV I forget the name, but 2 contestants compete against each other and Write a song and perform it at a Night club sorta place to win a date with a person who picks there song.He helps them with the songs and they have a full band to back them.
Author:  BlueSpirit [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:05 pm ]
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John
Great guitar. I'll be watchung.
Author:  Roy O [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:56 pm ]
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Congratulations John! That's going to be an awesome feeling to see your guitar on the tube. If I can manage to stay up that late I'll watch for it too.
Author:  Matt Gage [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:04 pm ]
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very cool, congrats John
Author:  Brock Poling [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:14 pm ]
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Awesome John!!
Author:  RussellR [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:20 pm ]
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Should we call you Mr Mayes now, you deserve the suceess I hope you get plenty of good business from it.
Author:  John Mayes [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:25 am ]
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[QUOTE=RussellR] Should we call you Mr Mayes now,
[/QUOTE]

Please don't or else I'll have to punch myself in the face repeatedly.
Author:  John Mayes [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:26 am ]
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thanks fellas :) I'm pretty excited...I just hope it gets there in time.
Author:  GCote [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:39 am ]
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Hopefully you will see it, I have been disappointed twice by the Leno show. The lead guitarist from Jimmy Buffett's band has 3 of mine and another on order was suppose to play mine on the show. He said up till the last day they were doing an acoustic type of song but Jimmy changed it at the last hour to something faster.
Bummer.

Good luck John

Gary
Author:  Steve Kinnaird [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:50 am ]
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Beautiful Tele. I love that neck!

What do you do to keep the body joints from telescoping through the paint job? (I'm assuming the Ash is not one solid piece....)

Steve
Author:  John Mayes [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:12 am ]
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well they tried to deliver it today, but no one was home so they said it
won't be till monday...don't know if they are going to have time to go an
get it.... oh well...I'll keep my fingers crossed...
Author:  John Mayes [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:33 am ]
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[QUOTE=Steve Kinnaird] Beautiful Tele. I love that neck!

What do you do to keep the body joints from telescoping through the
paint job? (I'm assuming the Ash is not one solid piece....)

Steve[/QUOTE]

It is a 2 peice body, and Frankly I don't know! I don't do the finish on my
guitars anymore. But I know my finish guy epoxy's before finishing so I'm
sure that helps...
Author:  Steve Kinnaird [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:41 pm ]
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...I'm sure it does too. Didn't Fender use some special sealer--was the name Fullerplast by any chance?--that they layed down under their color coats? I bet several here know the answer to that! Anyway, it seems they did something to prevent the joint lines from making themselves known.

Steve
Author:  John Mayes [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:28 pm ]
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yes Fender did indeed use fullerplast. Fullerplast ( invented by a guy
named fuller O'Brien) is a catalyzed sealer that makes it to where the
basecoats as well as clear coats did not soak into the grain, and also the
joint lines. They started using this in 1962-1963 ish

But also fender did lots of weird things with paint. They would paint
entire guitars a sunburst, and if it did not turn out right they would just
spray a solid color over the top of it, so you'll see guitars where the finish
will wear and you'll see a sunburst undercoat. Fender was really
inconsistent.
Author:  Pwoolson [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:27 pm ]
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Well, John, I really don't think there's any way you could even approach being as famous as me. (Gagging on his moring breadfast). After all, I've got two women that absolutely worship the ground I walk on (they aren't teenagers yet so they don't know any better).
I hope Steve can get the guitar. I look forward to seeing it on Jay. Nice work!
Author:  L. Presnall [ Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:27 am ]
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Paul, just wait! My girls ARE teens and the walk on the ground I worship!!!
Author:  John Mayes [ Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:06 am ]
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well I talked with steve today and he said he got the guitar loves it and us
going to use it! Sweet!
Author:  Don A [ Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:58 am ]
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[QUOTE=John Mayes] well I talked with steve today and he said he got the guitar loves it and us
going to use it! Sweet![/QUOTE]
Great news. I'll be sure and watch (though I may be cussin you between yawns at work tommorrow).
Author:  L. Presnall [ Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:07 pm ]
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TIVO Don, works great, lasts a long time, wipes clean with a damp cloth...and you can skip the monologue!
Author:  John Mayes [ Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:49 pm ]
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Pretty neat! I was jazzed to see it....I Tivo'd it.. now just to transfer it to
my computer and burn it to DVD :)
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