"The Real Fender 60th Anniversary Telecaster" By Zachary Guitars

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Alex Csiky is a Canadian guitar builder and the man behind Zachary Guitars. Alex seems angry, has a lot of venom towards the big guitar companies, and he may even hate you.

Don't take it personally though, it's not you, it's clearly him.

His "philosophies" are fuelled by a rage that is rooted in a passion for guitars. He despises expensive guitars made on CNC equipment and thinks that we are being duped by buying into the hype.

Honourable? Perhaps. But he also thinks that you may not deserve to own one of his guitars. I'm not sure what the vetting process is or if there is one specific, but he may not deem you worthy.

This Telecaster is both beautiful and a great example of this attitude. Calling it the "Real Fender 60th Anniversary Telecaster" because he thinks that Fender missed the boat on an opportunity to do something new with their Telecaster design.

I do really like this guitar. The design is great in that it pays homage to the inspiration yet remains unique. The  one piece padauk body is great and I can forgive the thin headstock because i really like the rest of the neck and the fret marker design. Odd though, that it seems to have both string-through and top load options.

At $2800 he'll not be a worry to the "overpriced" big companies.

Also, if the name Zachary Guitars sounds familiar, he went semi-viral a few years back with his Ikea Guitar.

Check out his retro site for some great entertainment.

R.W. Haller

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Zachary's walnut Moderne

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It's always a piece of fun to connect to Zachary Guitars website - for those who don't know it, I recommend a little visit but not without warning you that it is a borderline experience... The hubris of Alex Csiky (Zachary Guitars's maker) makes difficult to be sure that his guitars are as good as he claims, but his anti-guitar establishment ranting is quite unique and often convincing...

This time again I was not disappointed since I discovered Zachary's last guitar, its second version of the legendary Gibson Moderne, a little marvel made of beautiful walnut wood, that appears on the following video to be a very nice player. It is a smart move on a model that deserves to be more than mere an urban legend or an expensive cult fetish.

I have no problem advertising here Zachary's new guitar, since it is very unlikely that Alex would accept any of you readers as a customer - for sure he wouldn't sell me a guitar, never been interested in playing a maximum of notes in a minimum of time...

bertram

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