James Tyler Burning Tobacco Classic Custom Mod

mentoneman said:
Week started off very rough.
Surfing accident early Tuesday morning—board hit me in mouth and almost bit off an inch of the end of my tongue. Dangling by threads as set of the day pounded me. that was special.

drove to emergency and doc gave me 14 stitches a bottle of hydrocodone and said i should heal well but take it easy for a week or two.
until then i’m talking weird (my compassionate wife has nicknamed me porky duck) and eating is a real painful drag.

but then this happened today

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and for a little while i forgot all about my troubles!!
Thank you Rich and the awesome gang at Tyler Guitars 🙏🙏🥳

my wife knows how long i’ve wanted this mod done to my guitar so she filmed me pulling it out of the case and i made a quick iphone clip playing it for the first time.

legendary Tyler clean tone sounded killer in the room, but wdw dirt sounded weird and fuzzy— still figuring out what switch does what but i’ll work on it!

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Get well soon man!
 
I, like many have admired and respected these guitars for a long time. To have those two finishes, maybe the wildest against the most traditional is really, really cool. Special guitar before you turn it over and see what’s on the back of the headstock. #1, Man, that’s something. Very stoked for you and wholly cow, what a day.
 
PlayAndersons said:
When your board punches you in da mouth time for a new board...
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just the most brutal surf injury i’ve ever dealt with. i’ve been hit in the face and had stitches before, punctured eardrum, hit the reef on my elbow = stitches, slammed bottom and split open both my heels, tailbone bruise, head gash…all gnarly, but this was next level.

thank God for poi and yogurt!
 
bigviolin said:
I, like many have admired and respected these guitars for a long time. To have those two finishes, maybe the wildest against the most traditional is really, really cool. Special guitar before you turn it over and see what’s on the back of the headstock. #1, Man, that’s something. Very stoked for you and wholly cow, what a day.
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always loved the BW finish, and then the idea hit me years ago…2018…?…to just refinish my gtr with that paint job because i’ve never played another Tyler like mine and i didn’t want a different guitar.
But then i saw some custom fender relics blending different finishes and came up with the idea of the “burning tobacco”, as if my gtr was catching fire and the finishes and name just made sense!
the added cool factor of those two finishes being a tribute to my two favorite Tyler/rack heroes Landau and Huff just made it destiny!
 
mentoneman said:
just the most brutal surf injury i’ve ever dealt with. i’ve been hit in the face and had stitches before, punctured eardrum, hit the reef on my elbow = stitches, slammed bottom and split open both my heels, tailbone bruise, head gash…all gnarly, but this was next level.

thank God for poi and yogurt!
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Praying for a quick recovery and that you can get back in the water soon. In the mean time enjoy your guitar!!!
 
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