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Of course, PG’s John Bohlinger and our video team of Chris Kies and Perry Bean were at the unveiling, and Bohlinger and Paisley went deep into the new instrument’s back story. As Paisley tells it, after a sheet of the rarely used blue paisley paper that Fender briefly employed for a guitar finish in 1968 turned up in an old ammo box from the Vietnam era, which sounds like a saga in itself, it fell into the hands of guitar historian Alan Cross, who brought it to Paisley’s attention.
Mother and child reunion: The original, at left, and the Custom Shop-built recreation of Paisley’s ’67 Tele. It’s an estimable instrument and carries a serious price tag: $7,000.
Fender briefly produced both red and blue paisley instruments to capture the vibe of the Summer of Love. Compared to the red, which faded to the now famed Fender “pink paisley” hue, the original blue-paisley-finish models are quite rare. Hence the “lost,” in Lost Paisley. Cross took the paper to Paisley, who almost immediately got to work, applying it to the ’67 Tele he had modded for a G-bender by Joe Glaser shortly after Paisley arrived in Nashville in the mid-1990s.
“Once I put the original paper on this guy right here,“ he said, referring to his original instrument, “this became my favorite guitar.” As his affinity for the look and feel of the instrument continued to grow, Paisley figured he’d take it to Fender’s Custom Shop, which had earlier developed his pink paisley signature (based on his ‘68) and his road-worn Tele models.
A close-up look at the finish, which has a nearly reflective quality.
The Lost Paisley model has a lightweight body, crafted from a unique combination of alder, paulownia, and spruce. The finish is relic’d, to match Paisley’s axe, with a colorful, metallic burst. It has a custom ’60s oval C-shape maple neck with a round-laminated maple fretboard. Under the hood, the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Hand-Wound Lost Paisley pickups provide warmth, clarity, and tonal balance, which was audible at the unveiling, and the Glaser “G” Bender system allows for fluid, pedal-steel-like bends. In addition to its late-’60s appointments, the instrument is bundled with custom accessories, including a vintage-style case, period-correct Fender strap, and certificate of authenticity. At one point while he played, Paisley had to check to be sure he was picking the Custom Shop model rather than his original. “I literally just picked this guitar up for the first time, and it feels just like I’m playing my original,” he noted.
The hardest aspect of reverse engineering the Lost Telecast was recreating the paper for the finish. “Now, between [Nashville tech to the stars] Joe Glaser and [noted guitar collector and dealer, and former Paisley guitar tech] Zac Childs, we know more about adhesive paper than I ever went down that ramp before. It’s literally aluminum foil with a paper backing, and then there's an embossed paisley pattern on it. Getting the color right maybe was the hardest thing. We would change one number in the color code for one of the shades of this and it would look completely wrong.
When he finished his ’67 with the blue paisley paper from the ammo case, “I did the bursting myself to make it look like I thought it should. And so when we did this new version, I’m like, we gotta make sure that this plastic fades and oxidizes or whatever it is. I just love the way these colors work together. In the end, it’s showbiz. What looks cool on stage? And every from the size of the burst and the way that the paint interacts and the way that it fades and the relic’ing of the paper and the cracks all play into that. Then, it’s all about feel, and this guitar looks and plays great. The Custom Shop nailed it!”
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