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Gold plated Strat for an english celebrity

crispy king
October 30th, 2009, 01:30 PM
Any ideas who this could be for?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8334329.stm

It says that it is an aluminium guitar. I didn't know you could get those.

Telesavalis
October 30th, 2009, 01:35 PM
Living in Monaco....hmmm...wonder who it's for. I think Justin Hayward lives in that
part of the world. But he's not the gaudy type. Ringo?

BigDaddyLH
October 30th, 2009, 01:54 PM
Now, to relic it!

crispy king
October 30th, 2009, 02:02 PM
Further digging reveals the owner lives next door to Justin Hayward

http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/4704331.The_man_with_the_golden_guitar/

Goluphi
October 30th, 2009, 02:20 PM
Robbie Robertson?

crispy king
October 30th, 2009, 02:33 PM
Canadian apparently

BigDaddyLH
October 30th, 2009, 02:36 PM
Robbie Robertson?

You'd think he'd have the taste and judgment to goldplate a Tele!

Groovey Records
October 30th, 2009, 02:42 PM
cheapskate didn't do the headstock

I rather have a Buck O Caster

BigDaddyLH
October 30th, 2009, 02:50 PM
cheapskate didn't do the headstock


probably didn't do the neck back either :mad:

Casual_Reader
October 30th, 2009, 07:58 PM
one snippet says it was aluminum... the second says it's a custom stainless

joe walsh gave ron wood one of the last fender aluminum strats.... where's ronnie hanging his hat these days?

djphelan01
October 31st, 2009, 06:36 PM
one snippet says it was aluminum... the second says it's a custom stainless

joe walsh gave ron wood one of the last fender aluminum strats.... where's ronnie hanging his hat these days?

There was a youtube video of Billy Gibbons giving Keith Richards an aluminum tele and Ron Wood complained he didn't get one so Billy brought Ron an aluminum one the next day. I couldn't find the video but I did see it about a year ago. It must be nice to have the money and the clout to give away high priced guitars.