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1966 Fender Jaguar Prototype

first Fender guitar was a Jaguar. When I was a child, I used to check the local buy-and-sell newspaper every day and one day, among a garage sale, I saw the words ‘Gibson guitar’. That’s all it said. I was nine years old, so I asked my dad to drive me over there with my $40, which I had made delivering newspapers. It was an ES-125TC. They wanted $100 for it and my father broke these people’s chops relentlessly until I got

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