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Flashback to 13 months ago and a blonde 1959 #Toploader #Fender #Esquire spotted the last time I visited @capsulemusic, #Toronto. Wow...has it really been 13 entire months since I last set foot inside #CapsuleMusic?? I used to visit them AT LEAST once a month to get my #vintageguitar fix. I have missed a minimum of 13 visits to this shop alone (and another couple of dozen visits to the other shops around town), and those are precious memories that I'll never get back! 😆 . On the plus side...I'm still alive, and no one in my immediate family or amongst my close friends has gotten sick. I have done my best to stay isolated unless it was absolutely necessary to leave the house...no visits with friends or family etc. I am lucky enough to be in a position to work from home, and I'm mildly agoraphobic anyway, so that helped as well! But this last year has taught me just how much I enjoyed, and depended on, all the wonderful #guitarshops in the Toronto area. Just to keep me occupied...and sane! . I keep hoping we can get back to the way it was before, but each time things have started to look up in the last year, everything has inevitably gone pear-shaped again! And the numbers are looking pretty bleak at the moment in this part of the country. I'm just hoping it doesn't take ANOTHER 13 months for us to see the back of this calamity once and for all. . . #teletuesday #esquireeveryday #fendertelecaster #fenderesquire #guitarshopping #guitar #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #vintageguitars #fenderguitars #vintagefender #tone #guitargear #guitarsofinstagram #geartalk #guitargear #vintagegear #guitarsdaily #fendersofinstagram #guitarphotography (at Capsule Music) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVTJhoBLdl/?igshid=8p60a3byi4oq

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1969/2020 players' paisley #Tele spotted at @capsulemusic #Toronto. . Wait..."1969/2020"? There's a story behind this one! Here's what the #CapsuleMusic website says: . "...we bought a 1969 #Telecaster with a #Bigsby but the body was trashed, refinished and routed beyond repair but it had all the original bits! So our Telecaster was born! We had the body custom made with the original style wallpaper and an aged finish, the neck is an original 1969 with original tuners, the neck pickup is original, the plate, knobs, and switch are original to 1969 . The bigsby, bridge, and plate are original to '69, as is the neck plate, the pickguard is from an original 80's reissue Fender Paisley Tele. We had the neck refretted (it needed it badly), the bridge pickup is a reproduction 1969 Tele from #PickupWizard , it also comes with the original 1969 Fender HSC" . . #teletuesday #fendertelecaster #paisleytele #guitar #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #vintageguitars #fenderguitars #vintagefender #tone #guitargear #guitarsofinstagram #geartalk #guitargear #vintagegear #guitarsdaily #fendersofinstagram #guitarphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/B92Yb3gBmy5/?igshid=14q23ag8hq59o

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled Thursday evening programming for this special 1953 #blackguard #Fender #Telecaster (refin) spotted at @capsulemusic Toronto. All original parts other than the refin. Contact #CapsuleMusic for more info and pricing. #tele #teletuesday #telethursday #fendertelecaster #guitar #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #vintageguitars #fenderguitars #vintagefender #tone #guitargear #guitarsofinstagram #geartalk #guitargear #vintagegear #guitarsdaily #fendersofinstagram #guitarphotography (at Capsule Music) https://www.instagram.com/p/By8iD1hBv74/?igshid=15mn95s8iv1at

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I haven’t done a #WeirdassWednesday in a while, so here are two very weird and cool little #Hammertone #Octave12 models by #FBass spotted at @capsulemusic #Toronto. These instruments are like #mandolins, but tuned E to E like a 12 string #guitar (one octave higher) and as the #CapsuleMusic website describes it, they produce a “wonderful, shimmering chime”. With those single coil pickups I can imagine a sound like a #Fender #ElectricXII with a capo at the 12th fret! The name Hammertone is a nod to the city in which they are built - #Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, affectionately known as “#TheHammer” to residents and neighbouring well-wishers. 😀. Ash body and Indian rosewood fretboard. #mandolin #electricmandolin #furlanetto #furlanettobass #georgefurlanetto #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #tone #guitarsofinstagram #12stringguitar #guitargear #vintagegear #guitarsdaily #guitarphotography (at Capsule Music) https://www.instagram.com/p/By46_J7hllG/?igshid=6wzryr4g5j6a

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An extremely special #TeleTuesday as my friend and guitar benefactor @perkins28 (of @thegaslightanthem And @thehorriblecrowes) checks out this lovely 1950 #Fender #Esquire (body refin by MJT) at @capsulemusic on the weekend. PS: Ian is also sitting on a #narrowpanel late 50s Fender #tweed #TwinAmp. And that’s an early 50s wide panel tweed #Twin directly behind it! And that’s a 1953 #FenderDeluxe to the right. #VintageAmp heaven! The fun never ends at #CapsuleMusic, #Toronto! 😀 #esquireeveryday #ianperkins #thegaslightanthem #thehorriblecrowes #guitar #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #vintageguitars #fenderguitars #vintagefender #guitargear #guitarsofinstagram #vintagegear #guitarsdaily #fendersofinstagram #guitarphotography (at Capsule Music) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvL5hqnAbAx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=itlumk61mdyz

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So excited...thanks to @capsulemusic for opening today because I’m going on a last-minute, unplanned, #guitarshopping trip with my buddies @michaelsegui and @perkins28! I bought this 1961 #Gibson #LesPaul #SGJunior at #CapsuleMusic 5 or 6 years ago. What will I buy today? Sadly nothing. Gotta pay my taxes. I’m broke with a capital b-r-o. 😕 But we’re going to have fun looking anyway... 😀 #guitar #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #vintageguitars #vintagegibson #gibsonguitars #tone #guitargear #guitarsdaily #guitarsofinstagram #geartalk #vintagegear #gibsonsofinstagram #guitarphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwb-hphBj4i/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hsh6uyucsb33

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1981 #BCRich #Mockingbird #bass spotted at @capsulemusic #Toronto. Swipe left for a full body shot. This example is all original, with neck-through body, ebony fretboard, split single coil DiMarzio pickups, and weighs a scant 8.5 lbs which is pretty light for that giant hunk of pointy wood! My friend Guy at #CapsuleMusic said “you have to post this for #thumpinthursday...everybody loves these!”. Hmm, I thought. Everybody, eh? I was dubious. I know this is a pretty polarizing design from a pretty polarizing era of guitar production, but Guy was so convincing and enthusiastic about this darn thing! So this post could go either way for me: suicide or glory. It’s up to you... 😆 BC Rich made both guitar and bass versions of the Mockingbird. In 2010 Guitar World magazine called it the coolest guitar ever made. @slash has been known to play the #guitar version, which lends it considerable credibility. But being from Toronto, my #bassguitar archetype is @geddyimages and I don’t think I have seen him playing one of these. And I’m certain I didn’t see one in his collection, as shown in his #BigBeautifulBookOfBass (although he does, for example, have a Steinberger and some other modern basses!). So the jury is still out for me. I have some pretty ambivalent feelings about #guitars, and design in general, from the 80s, having lived through them...😀 So: is it suicide or glory? You be the judge! #bcrichguitars #bcrichmockingbird #bcrichbass #80s #1980s #VERY80s #holyfuckthats80s #slash #geddylee #geddyleesbigbeautifulbookofbass #vintageguitars #vintagebass #vintagebcrich #guitarphotography #bassphotography #suicideorglory (at Capsule Music) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwrUmoYh-wD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vxale01vwbq5

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It’s a NAD, people! A New Amp Day! 😀 Many thanks to @malonzi5150 for reuniting me with my old May, 1965 #VibroChamp (right) which I sold to him roughly a year ago. You see, ever since I picked up the February 1965 #Champ (left) from @capsulemusic a couple of months ago I started dreaming and scheming about how to get the ol’ Vibro Champ back from Mike. Luckily I had a January 1962 Reverb unit he had an eye on to pair with his January 1962 #Fender #Deluxe! 😀 Anyhoo: These are both from the 1st half of ‘65, both “no logo”, both “#FEIC”, and both very clean. 👌🏻 Even cooler, they both came from the same collection: back in 2016 both of these amps came into @capsulemusic as part of a large collection being sold off by a collector. I bought the Vibro and and my friend @hokusai22 bought the Champ at that time. Fast forward a couple of years and @hokusai22 consigned the Champ at #CapsuleMusic where I scooped it up...and now that I have the Vibro (thanks again Mike!) the family is back together again. (1966 Fender #Musicmaster II down front.) #guitar #guitars #amp #amps #amplifiers #vintageguitars #vintageamps #fenderamps #tone #guitargear #guitarsdaily #guitarsofinstagram #geartalk #guitarsdaily #fendersofinstagram #guitarphotography #ampphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm9OCUblgr3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ri2s4namlwnf