Guitars

My current crop:

PRS Custom 22 (1999)

  • 10 top in whale blue
  • Mahogany set neck with 22 fret rosewood ‘board, bird inlays
  • PRS vibrato
  • Dragon II humbuckers with nickel covers
  • 5-way rotary switch, master volume and tone.
  • Bought in from Coda Music in Stevenage April 2000 for (what was, and still is, to me) an obscene amount of money for a second-hand guitar.

Blue Meanie (2006)

  • Basswood body with quilted maple veneer
  • Bolt-on Jackson-style maple neck with 24 frets and sharkfin inlays
  • Reverse headstock
  • Original Floyd Rose vibrato
  • HSS pickup configuration:
    • DiMarzio ‘Distortion’ humbucker (bridge)
    • Schaller single-coil (middle)
    • Tom Anderson single-coil (neck)
  • Master volume, tone, Stewart-MacDonald megaswitch
  • ‘Lead bypass’ mini-toggle switch - defaults to bridge humbucker regardless of pickup selection.
  • Assembled by Paul Creedy of Arrowhead Guitars from a collection of bits acquired from various sources over the last five or six years. Total cost: around £300.

Epiphone Les Paul ‘56 Gold Top (2003)

  • Mahogany/Alder body
  • Mahogany set neck
  • Stock P-90 pickups
  • Bought from (the now, sadly, defunct) Honky-Tonk Music in Southend, Essex. I was originally after a Korina Flying V but realised that (a) it sounded pants and (b) I looked a total prick playing one.

Taylor Big Baby electro (2001)

  • 15/16 size dreadnought
  • Factory-fitted Fishman transducer and endpin preamp (no holes hacked into the side)
  • Solid spruce top with engraved rosette and slight figuring
  • Mahogany back/sides
  • Bolt-on mahogany neck
  • Bought from a store in Orlando whilst on holiday. I’d had an electro on order for 6 months with PMT in Southend but nothing ever turned up.

Strat 0001 tribute

  • It’s a work in progress - still collating parts but I’ll definitely chronicle the assemble process.
  • The theory/ideas are here

Squier Stratocaster (stock)

  • It’s a Strat. What more can I tell you?
  • A future project will be to turn this into a relic’d 60’s-style Strat; hopefully in Sonic Blue (my favourite 60’s colour). Watch this space!