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.

Faker Startocaster (2009)

  • “Inspired by” copy of David Gilmour’s Fender Stratocaster, s/n 0001
  • Vintage White 3-piece alder body
  • 22-fret maple neck with separate maple fingerboard, finished in vintage tint
  • 3 x Fender Tex-Mex single-coil pickups
  • Genuine Fender “57″ pattern gold-anodized aluminium scratchplate
  • Genuine Fender plastics in “Parchment”
  • Gold hardware (Wilkinson Kluson-style tuners and vintage tremolo bridge)
  • Fully shielded
  • StewMac wiring kit
  • Push/pull pot on middle tone control for series wiring of the middle pickup
  • Full story available here.
  • Featured on Stratoblogster.com as “A Strat for Friday”, #151

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.

    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:
      • Sonic blue paint job (nitrocellulose courtesy of Steve Robinson)
      • Vintage tinted neck
      • Aged white plastics
      • “Mint green” scratchplate
      • Aged metalwork
      • Pickups TBC, but possibly some Toneriders

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