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A Russian Mig Flies In
After the Sound City and all of the Fenders, I suddenly got a hankering to get another Marshall. I thought I had broken the habit after...
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Jun 11, 20203 min read
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Double Trouble
But twice as nice. I acquired this last year from a chap in kent and took the train down there. It was a bit like one of those spy...
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Jun 11, 20203 min read
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Lock Down Lefties
It's been a while since I have updated this blog and life has taken a few unexpected twists of late. So we found ourselves locked away at...
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May 24, 20201 min read
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The Vox AC 30
So one day, myself and Jon were coming back from lunch and we just happened to be passing Guitar Guitar in Camden. The conversation was...
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Jul 2, 20192 min read
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A Visitor
So having handed off Ron his Tele from the Country Club Collection, he showed up in the Shed one day with this lovely looking Strat. Me: ...
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Jun 17, 20192 min read
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The Barncaster
So having now got the Bananacaster neck all fixed up fitted to the carved body and complete, I now found myself in the position of having...
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Jun 17, 20192 min read
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The Bananacaster
I have written about this guitar before, but it has come on quite a ways over the last year, and has now has got incorporated into it...
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Jan 21, 20192 min read
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Ron's Tele
This is the last of the batch of guitars from the Country Club run, So a brief recap here. So last July (2018) I was laid up and off work...
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Jan 7, 20192 min read
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The Not a Byrdland
For almost 50 years I have lusted after a Full Bodied Left Handed Gibson Jazz guitar but the price has always been astronomical - very...
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Dec 29, 20183 min read
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The New Decoy
So having Bling the Gold Strat hanging on the wall of the workshop as a decoy was too much of a temptation and there was lots of...
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Dec 28, 20182 min read
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You don't know what you've got till it's gone
Years ago Maybe (1975 or something like that) I had a 14 watt Watkins Westminster with a tremelo made in around '62, which I got from a...
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Nov 14, 20181 min read
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Lost
So I was working on a P Bass (I got carried away on a whim) - routed it out for a Jazz bass Pickup at the bridge, and after a week of...
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Oct 21, 20181 min read
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A Slow One
So this particular guitar took a while. A nice dark Wine Red Strat. In its original incarnation it had the Dimarzio SDS humbucker in the...
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Oct 17, 20182 min read
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Bling and Blong
So then these two happened to come along - Bling and Blong - whatever else could you conceivably call these guitars, but each have their...
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Sep 10, 20184 min read
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Fifty Quid Strats
You have got to love the Cheap Ones as well From the Country Club Project, part of the game has been to knock up a couple of Strats. ...
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Aug 25, 20182 min read
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Roundabouts
Back at work again and picking up on projects that have been dormant while I have been at home for a while. I must admit that I am a...
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Aug 19, 20181 min read
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All Good Things Must Pass
There seems to be a time when we ultimately have to become the older generation and do things for ourselves and it is always associated...
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Aug 2, 20181 min read
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The Accidental Telecaster
So I was um buying this package of parts - which I guess really amounted to a couple of guitars all in bits, and as part of this there...
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Jul 30, 20182 min read
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Walking The Plank
On one of the Forums, I had seen one of the Cigar Box 3 string Guitar builders use a plank of 4x2 timber to form the body of a lap steel...
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Jul 24, 20182 min read
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A Tail of Two Tailpieces
I have been having a fair degree of success with Stratocaster builds of late and, apart from the neck set, one of the key components is a...
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Jul 23, 20182 min read
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