Following within the inventive footsteps of the Previous Progress Strat, the Entrance Row Legend Esquire and the 80 Proof Blues Junior, Fender has now used wooden reclaimed from a famed Toronto nightclub for a pair of restricted version guitars by Customized Store Grasp Builder Ron Thorn.
The unique El Mocambo was opened on Spadina Avenue in Toronto in 1948 when it housed a eating corridor on the primary ground and a dance ground on the subsequent ground up. The property modified arms numerous instances earlier than turning into a music venue within the early 70s. The Rolling Stones made a shock look in 1977 as The Cockroaches, and attracted the gaze of the worldwide press as a result of spouse of then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau partying with the band.
Different notable performers on the venue embrace Tom Waits, U2, Joan Jett, Dream Theater, Jeff Healey, Blondie, Meat Loaf, Queens of the Stone Age, Al Di Meola and Elvis Costello. The listing goes on. However personally, I'll at all times affiliate this venue with an explosive efficiency captured on movie by the legendary Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
In late 2014, the membership was renovated by new proprietor Michael Wekerle and the restricted version Customized Store El Mocambo guitars have been constructed utilizing wooden from the rafters and ground joints eliminated throughout this work.
Toronto native and Customized Store Grasp Builder Ron Thorn had reportedly thought of including a putting yellow/inexperienced end to the devices to mark the event, however fortunately determined towards it.
"As soon as we bought into the lumber and simply how a lot character there was in it, it simply appeared like a disgrace to cowl that up," he mentioned. "We don’t want any coloration, it’s simply lovely precisely how it's."
The El Mocambo Stratocaster and Telecaster every has a physique long-established from jap white pine sourced from the membership's renovation, and has been handled to a heavy relic end. Every rocks a Canadian maple neck with a 1959-style D profile and 21 jumbo frets on an African blackwood fingerboard with gold-colored inlays, together with a palm tree motif impressed by the well-known nightclub's 22-ft (6.7-m) signal on the first fret.
Each devices have additionally been handled to hand-wound Josefina Campos pickups with particular wiring and switching – with the Strat sporting a Texas Particular single coil on the bridge, a Classic 65 within the center and a 69 on the neck, whereas the Tele additionally will get a Texas Particular on the bridge place however the neck slot is stuffed with a Twisted Tele.
Elsewhere, there is a Customized Store Classic tremolo bridge for the Strat and a 58-63 Tele bridge with Gatton saddles for the Tele, engraved neck plates for each, 3-ply black pickguards and vintage-style tuners.
"These are particular rock guitars," mentioned Thorn. "They’re particular guitars. And the place the timber has been for the final 80 years, it simply makes it a bit additional particular."
The El Mocambo Strat and Tele can be found as a pair for US$25,000, and include eye-popping inexperienced arduous circumstances, a guitar strap, a DVD of Stevie Ray Vaughan's superior 1983 present on the venue, some stickers and a certificates of authenticity. The video under has extra.
Product pages: El Mocambo Strat, El Mocambo Tele
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