28 – The Goldtop HH Tele

This guitar has been on my list since I first saw one in the first guitar shop in Hemel Old Town. It was 2005, I was back from uni for Christmas and I saw it and fell in love with it!

Fast forward 14 years and I’m searching eBay and it just pops up! Now, its not in perfect shape… had a bad headstock break (which has been professionally repaired), pickups had been swapped to Bare Knuckles and the truss rod is a nightmare to tighten… But a quick jump in the car and a 3 hour round trip and its in the collection.

I’m stoked to have one of these! It’s great fun to play and sounds rad. I used it during the first couple of Lyoness shows… the clean parts have never sounded so ridiculous. 

So… My wife has been learning to play and we chatted about her taking what she wanted from the collection.   She picked this one! I took some time to set it up for her with some light gauge strings (8’s), low action and a little relief to make the strings easy to play!