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Roadworn or just Knocked Up
I had always had a hankering for a Black on Black Tele, ever since I saw Steve Cropper at the Festival Hall, aided and abetted by Donald...
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Dec 19, 20172 min read
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Route 'n Roll
So I bought this Router to go with the Bit I had been playing around with in the drill press for minor trim jobs (remember the oversize...
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Dec 17, 20173 min read
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A Senior Interlude
So this came to me on an old beat up Harmony Meteor. Lemmy showed up at the flat clutching this bin bag and inside was this wreck of a...
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Dec 16, 20173 min read
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Handbags
As most of you will have gathered by now all the parts builds so far were about as close to a real Fender as a Gucci handbag on a stall...
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Dec 15, 20172 min read
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Brassed Up
An exciting day, the next shipment from Texas is in. First stop was to take off the cheap gold knobs and drop on these beautiful heavy...
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Dec 15, 20173 min read
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Oiled Up
So while i'm waiting for Micheal to weave his magic over in Texas and having run out of Tele bits to play with, I go back to Strats. Now...
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Dec 14, 20172 min read
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The Thinline
On to the third of the Three Amigos. I had picked up this Thinline on a whim and when I got it home, it felt like it had some potential....
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Dec 14, 20172 min read
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Stealth
So now I had this great place to go and play with guitars, the first build was done - it was a guitar - it played! it did stuff! it even...
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Dec 13, 20172 min read
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Switches
On the Nashville I had dropped a switch onto the Control Plate to give me the Gilmour Black Switch Equivalent, but in reality it was...
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Dec 12, 20172 min read
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Shimming and Shoving
So now I had the workshop set up it was time to build the first Guitar in the Shed, funnily enough known as Shed 1. I has acquired this...
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Dec 11, 20173 min read
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Dec 11, 20170 min read
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Byrdlands - The Guitar Shed
So there was this period when I was spending a whole bunch of time at the office downstairs in the workshop doing stuff to Guitars (and...
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Dec 10, 20172 min read
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The Three Amigos
So this is where the story starts to escalate a little, but not spiral wildly out of control (well not yet anyway that, comes later). I...
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Dec 10, 20172 min read
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Sparks Fly
So having now got this great guitar, to complete it, it needed a little bit of thought to get the Electrics right. I had fitted one of...
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Dec 10, 20172 min read
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Blondy
So this was the Guitar that started off the Tele Quest, a standard Mexican built blonde Squire Classic Vibe which came to me with a right...
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Dec 8, 20172 min read
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