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    Tele Mundo

    May 04, 2021 4 minutes
    BY TOM BEAUJOUR

    ASK GUITAR BUILDER Ignacio “Nacho” Baños why he has such an enduring fascination with the guitars built by Leo Fender in the early 1950s and why his company creates such painstakingly detailed tributes to them and he’s quick to answer. “I’m just a freak,” he says. “I’m very passionate about the things that I love, and I’m just trying to re-create some of the amazing instruments that were made 70 years ago.”

    Born and raised in Valencia, Spain, Baños became enamored of the Telecaster in his mid teens. “Most of my heroes were playing Teles,” he says. “James Burton with Elvis Presley, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Spedding, Danny Gatton with Robert Gordon… It was the coolest guitar

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