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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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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