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Morelli Guitar's Jesse Gress Guitar Project
Jesse Gress tours and records with Todd Rundgren and the Grammy®- nominated Tony Levin Band. A respected performer, music educator, and former music editor of Guitar Player, Jesse has hundreds of transcription folios and magazine articles to his credit, as well as five acclaimed reference books: Guitar Licks of the Texas Blues-Rock Heroes, GuitaRevolution - Lessons from the Groundbreakers & Innovators, The Guitar Cookbook, Guitar Lick Factory, and Guitar Licks of the Brit-Rock Heroes. He currently creates content for Guitar Player. MORELLI GUITARS IS PROUD TO BE ABLE TO OFFER THESE PROJECTS, SO WE CAN GIVE TO THE ARTISTS WE LOVE!
Morelli Guitar's Jesse Gress Guitar Project : Fans can be part of the building of Jesse's Guitar by financing the project with donations. The design is set at this point and the art of this guitar will be an emphasis on the natural beauty of the Tonewoods.
Contributors names will be engraved in the back plate on the guitar! The back plate will be made of solid brass!
Top quality and High Grade materials only!
Basic Information
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This project started on 6-7-2011
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Be a part of the building of Jesse Gress's next guitar! I will post photo's and keep you up to date on the progress just like the Todd Rundgren Guitar Project!
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You can be a part of the building of Jesse Gress's next guitar! Morelli Guitars is taking Donations and letting you be a major part in the building of the next guitar for Jesse Gress! The Project is a solid body electric guitar, a copy of Todd Rundgren's Ankh Guitar, redesigned and made from master grade tonewoods not metal like the original one... and of course the best parts on the market.
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Last year Morelli Guitars gave Todd Rundgren 2 Guitars! An Acoustic/Electric and a Strat style Electric featured on this website! Now we want to build one for Jesse Gress! Get your name on the contributors list for a $100 donation.
Major contributors (people who donate more than the min.) Their names will be engraved in larger print and the largest donators names will go first! on the main back-plate.
Contributors names will be engraved in the back plate on the guitar! The back plate will be made of solid brass!
Send Donations US funds to
Perry Morelli P.O. Box 54 Belfair, WA 98528 Or you can use the PayPal Donate/Payment button on the Morelli Guitars Website @ http://morelliguitars.com/ Donations are Non- Refundable
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Build the best guitars, and give them to deserving artists as a gift from all of us! To give back to them for all that they have gave us in our lives. I know there is no way to fully repay them for all the music, happiness and joy, insight and wisdom they bring us. I build guitars. The Artists love my guitars. Lets build them together!
FINAL NOTE
Jesse has done so much over the years ... lets bring a smile to his face..Lets build him a world class Guitar! and bring some joy to his heart, knowing his fans gave him this gift! And Guitars are forever! Its one love, one world!
With Love, Perry |
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(360)-473-9244
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The Project is Brought to you by http://toddfan.com
blocks glued
general shape cut
got the solid brass ... same as the one installed in Todd's guitar
Cut-out for the inserts
Color epoxy filler added
first sanding to remove epoxy from face
rear rout is cut and edge is rounded for comfort ....
Pickup and bridge routing done
Headstock shape is cut out
extra long Morelli headstock
No strings yet... lacquer is done and hardware is installed
Morelli Headstock ...
It is all Done! I'm flying it out to Cleveland to give it to Jesse on 11/12/11 I'll post photos!!
Jesse playing with fellow Utopia members John Siegler and Kevin Ellman
onstage
Jesse Gress's Ankh sitting next to Todd Rundgren's fool copy on stage at the Utopia show in Akron Ohio!
A donation that came in a little too late for the backplate, went towards buying this ATA Flight Case! Thx! Bruce Whetstone!
This photo was taken by the great photographer Chuck Madden and shared on facebook! |
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