Monday, November 9, 2009

Guitars That I Own (But Didn't Make)

Ok, so I thoguht I'd show you guitars that I've amassed over the years. None of them are expensive guitars, in fact I got two of them for free. Anyways enjoy!

BC Rich - Warlock
An obscenely metal guitar haha, nahh this is a great guitar (made greater by the fact I picked it up for free) that plays well and sounds alright. I think people tend to shy away from BC Rich because they are associated so heavily with the metal genre however, I don't see why this is because the warlock hardly conforms as a guitar so why should it have to conform to one genre of music? Just for the record I do not play metal music much at all but I still use this as my main guitar.










Epiphone - Les Paul Junior
The latest in the collection. I picked up this guitar for just $101.75 (£60.72!) at Guitar center in Hollywood. Of course because it was so cheap I wasn't expecting much from this guitar but it really outshone my expectations I really like this guitar especially how dark the rosewood fretboard is and im sure if I was to modify it with a better humbucker it would sound much better. Well worth the small sum I paid for it and the anxiety that it caused from flying it all the way home(England)











Squier - Stratocaster (Affinity Series)
My first Electric, it came with a white pickguard on black paintjob and after 4 years I just couldn't stand the blandness anymore so i did a bit of aesthetic customization. What else can I say about this guitar?, I love it.










Squier - Frank Bello Signiture Jazz Bass
The first bass I aucutally owned, the bass i learnt on was this awful Ibanez. I remember when I first picked up and played this bass I was just amazed the jazz bass neck was so much nicer then the neck on the ibanez I had been palying. The pickup configuration on this bass (P + J bass pickups) is amazing and sound brilliant with a great growl. However, the main reason I picked this guitar was because when I was picking a bass I didn't just want another boring what and black p bass I wanted something different and boy is this bass out there. I auctually think it looks cooler then frank bellos fender signiture bass.








Tatra - Classic Aucoustic (classical guitar)
Last but not least, my first ever guitar given to me by my grandma. I know very little about this guitar or tatra guitars in fact, having said that over the lat year an article about the company the company appeared on wikipedia. These guitars were manufactured in the late 60's to early 70's in the countary that is no more, Czechoslovakia. These guitars where Budget guitars back in the day (notice a theme?) and really aren't worth much much now but the sentimental value is pricless.










Next Post: Up and coming projects, Including a 3/4 size EVH replica.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Blue Bass

Here is a picture of the Blue Bass from a bout 5-6 months ago. I have made changes now like adding chrome hardware and getting a glossy pickguard.
That strange blur on the headstock is where the old logo used to be.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

'Evidence'

These are a few pictures of the 'Evidence' bass guitar. Remember this is a prototype guitar I will be making changes to it.










Here are some close ups...


Saturday, October 17, 2009

1st Post

Well, I'm just gunna get the first post out of the way and thank a couple of websites.
http://www.smeltery.net/ - It's where i get all my fonts from that I use in my logos. It's free so have a look.

http://www.photoscape.org/ - This is a great photo editing software I use it on pretty much all my picutres. Best of all it's free!
Stay tuned for some more posts coming soon.