{"id":522,"date":"2017-02-15T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2017-02-16T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:48:54","slug":"ace-of-hearts-telecaster-road-replica-by-jim-cara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Ace of Hearts Telecaster Road Replica by Jim Cara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a beat up sticker of a Pinup Girl on a Playing Card. \u00a0It was stuck to an old 70&#8217;s yellow\u00a0refrigerator someone had by the curb. \u00a0 It was a hot day, so the decal peeled off pretty easy. I remembered the color, and went back to the shop and painted a\u00a0Mexican Telecaster. Holding the sticker up to it, I knew the guitar had to resemble that beat-up refrigerator. \u00a0Putting it all together, the Decal popped as I remembered on the Hot day picking trash. \u00a0HA. &#8211; Jim Cara.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beautiful and random lacquer checking in only the naturally appropriate areas.<\/li>\n<li>Material correct aging and patina on Nickel, Chrome, and Gold parts<\/li>\n<li>Plastic and printing work on pickguard is indistinguishable from an actual vintage part<\/li>\n<li>Areas hidden by parts and plastic show the period quality natural wear, different from the exposed areas.<\/li>\n<li>These are just among many of the things that most relic artists avoid because of the time it takes.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re trusting us with valuable instruments to antique and distress. We earn and respect that trust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I came across a beat up sticker of a Pinup Girl on a Playing Card. \u00a0It was stuck to an old 70&#8217;s yellow\u00a0refrigerator someone had by the curb. \u00a0 It <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/?p=522\" title=\"Ace of Hearts Telecaster Road Replica by Jim Cara\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[91,153,142,194,70,94,195,126,166,193,165,138],"class_list":{"0":"post-522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-roadreplicas","8":"tag-cara-guitars","9":"tag-custom-guitar","10":"tag-fender-guitar","11":"tag-fender-telecaster","12":"tag-hot-rod-guitar","13":"tag-jim-cara","14":"tag-mexican-telecaster","15":"tag-rat-rod","16":"tag-relic","17":"tag-relic-guitar","18":"tag-road-replica","19":"tag-tom-daniel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caraguitars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}