🎸 A 5-Year Journey

No, I'm not talking about my army life please. I'm talking about my beloved Edcaster. Assembled it on my 21st birthday and talk about a dream come true. I've always wanted a 1969 Thinline Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde and there it was, in all its majesty!

It was going to be my perfect guitar, if not for the many imperfections made during assembly. Made the mistake of going as cheap as possible for the assembly and let a random dude on Carousell screw me upside down.

Call me young or naive or whatever you want, but I should have went to a reputable luthier for the guitar assembly. Dude was so noob that he drilled the holes improperly everywhere on my guitar. Triggered me back then. But I had no choice, it is already done.

Threw $1800 into a guitar that was imperfect at the end of the day. Still, I lived with it for 5 years. It became MY guitar, the guitar I brought everywhere, taken hundreds of photos with. All till this year, when I decided it's time for a refresh of my gear.

With a heavy heart, I let go of the Edcaster for $850, much much lesser than what it's worth. But if this guitar don't go, it's a bottleneck in the refreshing process. With the Jethro Thinline now tanking my electric guitar needs, I'm on the verge of getting a new bass guitar to fill the spot.

Soon, when I return to a full time job with a steady income, I'm definitely rebuilding a 1969 Thinline Telecaster, maybe with a TV Jones neck pickup instead! But until then, Jethro Thinline it is!

Edwin Ang