Rob Curley's replica of Prince's Telecaster-style guitar
The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley assembled this replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by the artist Prince during his career. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, using a cheap Telecaster knock-off in a similar color which he then upgraded with many replica parts.
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley owns this replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by the artist Prince during his career. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, using a cheap Telecaster knock-off which he then upgraded with many replica parts.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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The Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley assembled this replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by Prince during his career. Curley is a guitarist and fan and re-created the guitar on a budget using a Telecaster knockoff in a similar color, which he then upgraded with many replica parts.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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The Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley shows the back of this replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by Prince during his career. Prince’s had a distinctive strip of dark wood laminated in the body. Curley is a guitarist and fan and re-created the guitar on a budget using a Telecaster knockoff in a similar color, then upgraded it with many replica parts.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley owns this replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by the artist Prince during his career. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, using a cheap Telecaster knock-off which he then upgraded with many replica parts.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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The Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley added this customized cable jack to the replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by Prince during his career. Curley is a guitarist and fan and re-created the guitar on a budget using a Telecaster knockoff in a similar color, which he then upgraded with many replica parts.
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The Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley is pictured here with a replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by Prince. Scratch-It makes a “Prince Homage” kit that not only includes an incredibly close pickguard and includes other matching leopard plates that were on the original.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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TOP RIGHT: A customized neck plate was added to the replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by Prince during his career. Prince’s had a distinctive strip of dark wood laminated in the body. A customized cable jack was also added.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley assembled this replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by the artist Prince during his career. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, using a cheap Telecaster knock-off which he then upgraded with many replica parts.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley owns this replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by the artist Prince during his career. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, using a cheap Telecaster knock-off which he then upgraded with many replica parts. The headstock decal includes a reference to Harley Benton, the brand of the cheap guitar as well as the model of Prince’s original guitar, which is “Mad Cat.”
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley keeps this tiny replica of the Telecaster-style guitar used by the artist Prince on his desk at the newspaper. Curley has recreated a handful of replica guitars on a budget, using cheap knock-offs customized with replica parts.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley, pictured, created this replica of his first guitar, made by Kramer, which he sold as a teenager. He spent considerably more than his original starter guitar cost new to create this replica.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley created this replica of his first guitar, made by Kramer, which he sold as a teenager. He spent considerably more than his original starter guitar cost new to create this replica.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley created this replica of his first guitar, made by Kramer, which he sold as a teenager. He spent considerably more than his original starter guitar cost new to create this replica.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley started with a basic Epiphone Les Paul guitar and custompized parts to recreate the guitar of KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, starting with a basic guitar and then added on to it. This is the back of the guitar.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley started with a basic Epiphone Les Paul guitar and customized parts to recreate the guitar of KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, starting with a basic guitar and then added on to it. This is the headstock of the guitar.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley added custom knobs and other touches to a basic Epiphone Les Paul guitar to recreate the guitar of KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, starting with a basic guitar and then added on to it.
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The Spokesman-Review’s Editor Rob Curley added custom knobs and other touches to a basic Epiphone Les Paul guitar to recreate the guitar of KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. Curley is a guitarist and fan and recreated the guitar on a budget, starting with a basic guitar and then added on to it.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
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