About Me
Thank you for visiting my blog. This is my first blog and it is a project that I’m working on for my EDU 542 summer school class that I’m taking at Georgetown College. I am working on a Learning Behavior Disorders (LBD) Masters so that I may earn a K-12 teaching certificate in special education.
In my free time I enjoy playing guitar. I have a late 60’s Gibson J55, a WCD Custom Shop Fender Stratocaster and a Heritage H-535. The J55 is the one I play the most. It is the one that I learned on and has a special place in my heart. The WCD Custom Shop Fender is actually a guitar that I pieced together. I have never have been crazy about the feel of a stratocaster neck. I played a Fender 1957 Reissue, however, and loved the feel of the neck. I loved the shape and feel of it and the radias seemed to be complimentary to my playing style. After playing this guitar, it prompted me to learn more about the vintage Strats. I learned about the Nitro finishes that Strats originally had when they first came out. Nitro as opposed to the Poly finishes that most of the new ones have allows the wood to breathe and in that the guitar has more resonance which affects the sound or tone of the guitar. After learning more and more about the vintage guitars I was stoked. I really wanted one but I had doubts about the finish that came on the Reissues and did not have the $2,000+ to buy a Fender Custom Shop model. I did some research on the internet and decided that I could piece a guitar together the way I really wanted and it would be about the same price as a Reissue model. So I ordered a Nitro finished body from B Hefner in California, bought a 1957 reissue neck off of ebay, a tremelo and pickguard assembly loaded with Lindy Fralin pickups from Callaham and Sperzel locking tuners along with Dunlop straplocks from Musician’s Friend. I had RS guitar works in Winchester, Kentucky assemble it. Since you cannot buy a guitar already made like this I considered this to be my creation that I simply had outsourced the same as real guitar companies do. As a partial joke, i had the neck plate engraved “WCD Custom Shop” along with having a serial number engraved on it that I made up.
I also follow Formula 1 racing and am working very hard at getting into shape by working out five days a week. I sing in a quartet in my church and am grateful for an opportunity to serve the Lord. I hope to use my teaching experience as a ministrial opportunity. God is shown through our actions and I hope the encouragement and instruction that I provide may be a testimony to that.
I will probably add more to this at a later date so please feel free to check back sometime.
God bless,
Wade C. Davis
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