Fender Custom Shop Andy Mooney Telecaster 2021 - World Stamp Andorra

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This is one of those guitars where the story is every bit as interesting as the instrument itself. This Fender Custom Shop Telecaster is the Andorra guitar from Andy Mooney’s World Stamp / Imagine Collection, a project built around Mooney’s two longtime loves: guitars and stamp collecting. Each country received its own Telecaster covered in genuine postage stamps from that country, making this particular Andorra example effectively its own individual piece within the collection. The background on these is fantastic. Andy Mooney has explained that when he immigrated to the United States in 1984, two of the things he brought with him were a Fender acoustic guitar from his father and the stamp collection they had worked on together. Years later, he covered a guitar with some of his UK stamps almost on a whim. People responded to it, he started doing other countries, and the idea eventually grew into a collection representing countries around the world. Each guitar uses roughly 100 stamps, with around 20,000 stamps used across the broader project. Andy also brought his daughter Rose Mooney into the idea and asked her to design a neckplate symbolizing peace. Rather than the expected dove, she chose the simple flower you see on the back of this guitar. Mooney ultimately called the project the Imagine Collection, tying it to the idea of people from different countries coming together rather than being divided by them. That makes this Andorra Tele much more than somebody simply applying stamps to a guitar. The entire top is a collage of vintage Andorran postage, with different colors, denominations, artwork and eras layered together underneath the clear finish. You can sit and look at it for a while and keep finding different details. The white/parchment guard and cream-colored back and sides were a great choice because they let the stamps completely dominate the front without making the guitar look overly busy. This particular example is also exceptionally clean. It has sp