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Jan 303 min read
Leaving the Nest
There comes a finite point in time when you finally realise that you might just have a few too many guitars, and perhaps your descendants...
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Oct 10, 20201 min read
The Collection
For the first time ever all of my Guitars are in one Place From Right to Left A Strat, a Strat, Strat, Strat, another Strat, a Strat a...
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Oct 10, 20202 min read
The Teles
From Left to Right The Carved Tele, body from a Custom Builder in Poland, a Mexican Fender neck which has had the truss rod replaced and...
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Oct 10, 20202 min read
The Strats
From left to right Front Row 90's US Standard Strat, unmodified part from the Gilmour black switch, It was the first Strat I bought and...
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Oct 10, 20202 min read
The Rest of the Collection
From Left to Right is Epiphone Dot with added P90 in the mid position with the Alvin Lee wiring of an extra volume control and the jack...
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Oct 9, 20201 min read
The Amps
I seem to have um acquired rather a lot of amps in recent years, The Classic Deluxe Reverb and the Supersonic - the best 22 watt Fenders...
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Oct 9, 20201 min read
Getting it All up There
So how did you manage to get all that kit up in the Loft I hear you ask - Easy I bought a winch. The replacement stairs unbolt and there...
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Oct 4, 20202 min read
The Shed in the Sky
Otherwise known as the Attic. There is a family tradition that when the money passes down through the generations, you have a Holiday and...
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Sep 25, 20202 min read
The Elephant in the Room
Well the keys aren't Ivory and its far louder, but this Hammond has a story. Bought quite a few years ago from Arthur Brown's keyboard...
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Sep 6, 20201 min read
Floating Floor
Well as its over the bedroom i needed to think about how I could isolate a little amp and screen it off to be miked up - I suppose for...
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Aug 20, 20201 min read
Bedroom Amp & 3rd Lockdown Leftie
Well it's not actually IN the bedroom, it's OVER the bedroom but more of that later. I needed something quiet - a real misnomer because...
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Aug 19, 20202 min read
Power in the Shed
We finally got some proper power in the Shed and that can only mean one thing COLD BEER :) The shed now been finished for a couple of...
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Aug 11, 20201 min read
Second Lockdown Leftie
This is the latest strat - partscaster and the Second one of my Lockdown Leftie series of builds. It's also another one of the fifty quid...
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Jul 21, 20202 min read
The Forgotten One
So for the first time ever, all of my guitars are in the same place - I had to close up the office up and all of the hidden secrets had...
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Jul 10, 20201 min read
About the Bass
Well it was this week. The first of the Lockdown Lefties. A lovely Fender Jazz Bazz neck bolted onto a Left Hand Chord body. Have used...
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Jun 11, 20203 min read
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
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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May 24, 20201 min read
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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Jul 2, 20192 min read
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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Jun 17, 20192 min read
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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