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(ca.) 1982 Mark Campellone Solid Body - Prototype

Originally Built for (former) TBA & Azica recording Artist and Educator
FRANK POTENZA
Potenza is a protege of the late Joe Pass and an active educator, composer,
and performer with seven solo albums to his credit. He has also performed
in concert with the aforementioned Joe Pass, Dizzy Gillespie, George Van Epps,
Harry "Sweets" Edison, Red Holloway, Lou Rawls and many others.
[Klik Here to Visit the Frank Potenza Website]

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You may be familiar with Campellone as a builder of fine Hollowbody and
Archtop guitars. You may NOT know that he started out building quality
solid body guitars and basses early in his career. This happens to be one
of those early prototypes. [Klik Here to Visit the Mark Campellone Website]

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This early 'One-Off' prototype was hand-built with a beautifully figured
American Black Walnut body and Eastern Hard Maple neck-thru design.
Fretboard is Ebony with oval MOP/abalone fret markers. Headstock
veneer is Elm Burl. Back center piece is African Mahogany.
Pickups are Bill Lawrence. Kahler locking trem system and the
tuners are Gold Schallers. 2 vol/2 tone knobs & 5 toggle switches for
a larger variety of sounds than a Jimmy Page Les Paul, including in/out phase,
split coil, Single or dual humbucker, etc. [At least 24 different tones!]

** SOLD! **

This guitar was built by a prominent Luthier in the western U.S. That's about as much as I can say about the Luthier himself, as he doesn't want his name out there(Personal reasons). It was special built for a customer with the following features(he wanted an axe much like Bruce Springsteen's #1 axe.):

One piece ash body with a very thin natural finish, so you can still feel the grain of the wood. Highly Flamed maple neck with a Birds-eye Maple cap fretboard(how often have you ever seen that combination?!). To top it off, the guitar was then loaded with Fender equipment, including; Fender
vintage-style bridge & saddles, Fender vintage noiseless pickups, Fender tuners, bridge, etc. This thing plays and sounds great. I'd put it up against any Custom Shop Tele that Fender makes. The original owner of this guitar paid big bucks to have it built, but you won't have to(Price is set less than HALF what it cost to build!). Please note that no strap buttons were ever installed, nor holes drilled for them. Not sure why, but it's heavy enough(8.5lbs) that ya may want to sit down and play it anyway?? If you like Teles, you'll LOVE this axe! Comes with a hardshell case. -