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And Now Three More Strats
From the pile of bits after much sanding and spraying and spraying and sanding and even more spraying these three appeared from the...
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Jun 112 min read
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Here We Go Again!
Now having given away 5 Stratocasters - see the Leaving The Nest post, I was rummaging through boxes in the shed and came across a...
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Apr 271 min read
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The Erickickocaster
Ron seems to have the uncanny ability to pick up interesting and exotic high end parts (came away in me hand guv) and this is no...
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Apr 63 min read
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The Billocaster
Bill came round to the House - he was the Super Tech at Master Rock and he was bearing this lovely Phase Linear Amplifier he'd had in his...
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Apr 62 min read
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The 59 (well ish) SidRon Les Paul
One day Ron turned up at the shed clutching some bits - he'd been talking about this guitar for months and months. It was an uncompleted...
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Apr 53 min read
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Lester the Lefty
So again a guitar with a story - This guitar came to me by way of Den the Dec. We were having the kitchen done and lovely Den the guy...
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Apr 52 min read
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The Red Strat
So this guitar has a little story attached to it. It came to life as part of the fifty quid Strat project - lovely properly contoured...
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Feb 241 min read
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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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Jan 303 min read
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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...
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Oct 10, 20201 min read
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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
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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
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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 10, 20202 min read
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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
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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 9, 20201 min read
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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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Oct 4, 20202 min read
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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 25, 20202 min read
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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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Sep 6, 20201 min read
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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 20, 20201 min read
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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 19, 20202 min read
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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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Aug 11, 20201 min read
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