Refretting the Mike Bloomfield Tele
Issue 260 April 21, 2016
Dan Erlewine just moved into a new shop! In this video he finishes work on the Mike Bloomfield Telecaster, a guitar with a lot of history. We’ve been following this guitar for several videos; now Dan wraps it up with an assist from Erick Coleman.
About the guitar in this video: This is the 1963 Tele that Mike Bloomfield played on Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" and on the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album in the 1960s.
- The fretboard radius changes up and down this neck!
- Modified version of Leo Fender's sideways fretting technique
- Special neck holder for this sideways fretting.
- Erick Coleman and Dan work as a tag team on this complex refret.
