“To have it sitting at home, then see it on Good Morning America in Ed’s hands was a pinch-yourself moment”: Teddy McDonald pointed out Ed Sheeran was using a fake version of Eric Clapton’s Crashocaster. So they asked him to replace it

Ed Sheeran.

Most of us have thought about refinishing our instruments at some point – a new paint job, relic’ing, or simply caking it in stickers. Teddy McDonald feels the same way – but as an artist by trade, he doesn’t do things by halves.

His custom guitar paint jobs caught the eye of Ed Sheeran, who used McDonald’s own re-finished ‘Green T’ Eric Clapton Strat on his Multiply tour. That led to McDonald teaming up with Clapton’s go-to guitar artist, Crash, also at the behest of Sheeran.