Back around 1990, I met industry icon Bob Bradshaw who was known for building rack switching systems for the who’s who of guitar players under the name Custom Audio Electronics. Bob also had a company called Custom Audio Amplifiers that built (in my opinion) the best sounding guitar preamp and amp head to date. Bob became a client and I learned that Bob got his friend and fellow amp guru, John Suhr, to design those amps. I later learned John Suhr was not only the Suhr in “Pensa-Suhr”, but a master luthier at the Fender Custom Guitar Shop. Basically, John was a master at both designing amps and building guitars. John became a client, left Fender and later started his own custom guitar company, Suhr Guitars. This was my second of two Suhr guitars I had custom built. I always wanted a great sounding custom Tele and John told me he had just the guitar already built. Apparently guitarist Steve Stevens had borrowed this one while his Suhr custom guitar was being built. When John got it back from Steve, he sent it along to me. These Suhr guitars are a must for the serious guitar player, but be prepared to wait as the back-order list is lengthy. Then again, the old adage of anything valuable in life is worth waiting for totally fits here.