I’m sure most people know about Nacho Banos (certainly anyone in to Fender, Teles or vintage guitars). I’ve wanted one of his blackguard replicas ever since he started building them. For those who don’t know though, Nacho wrote the infamous Blackguard book, now out of print and generally £400+ to buy, which is the most complete history of the early Esquires, Broadcasters, Nocasters and Teles. The book itself is huge, heavy and wonderful. Nacho himself owns a number of blackguards and has had his hands on even more. I’d argue he knows more than anyone alive about these magical early Fenders.
So, when he tries to recreate them, I’m expecting a level of detail simply not available on a production guitar. He builds very small numbers twice a year, opens his books for those limited numbers and once sold, you’re waiting another six months.
Theyre expensive, slightly more than a team built custom shop, way less than a masterbuilt.
Anyway, Nacho emailed me yesterday to say mine was built, will be photographed fully in the next couple of days and then sent out. That’ll be my 6 month wait done and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. I have been lucky enough to briefly play 2 blackguards, 1 esquire and 1 nocaster, though I think I was so tied up in the mythology, I won’t be able to make much of a comparison, but I certainly will be able to with the significantly amount of modern Fender copies I’ve both played and owned.
Here are my first teaser pictures which I’ll update.
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I’ve looked back on my original email and the options are neck profile -d, hard v, soft v, pickups - broadcaster or telecaster and ageing. That’s it!
You mean you want to listen to my lousy playing. I think I’d rather hand it over to someone to bring the best out of it! Form an orderly queue
Well they are probably fantastic guitars that seldom get returned.