Buddy Is An Historic, Road-Ready Rock ‘n’ Roll Replica! Buddy — a Buddy Holly replica guitar — is a tobacco sunburst beauty that echoes Buddy Holly’s iconic 1954 Fender Stratocaster. Read More …
Phat Jaco Is A Thick, Throaty Fretless Jazz Bass
What if pin-thin bass legend Jaco Pastorius struggled with weight issues? Instead of playing the Bass of Doom, he would have played Phat Jaco! Read More …
Rot Seeks Sad Songwriters
Not all guitars are pretty. Some are born of pain and sorrow, finished with failure. This is the story of Rot. Bad Night Like so many things in life, Rot Read More …
Unboxing a $67 Glarry Jazz Bass!
We’ve used Glarry products in other projects…they’re well-built and inexpensive, which makes them perfect for workbench experiments! Here, we unbox a $67 Glarry Jazz Bass. This thing is an amazing Read More …
Ray – From Ugly Duckling To Power Bass
Some children are born beautiful, with perfectly round heads and chubby cheeks. Others are born scrawny and misshapen…and they don’t improve with age. Ugly Baby Ray is one of the Read More …
Marching Thru March!
What’s going on, Rock Stars? Rocco and I have a couple of interesting projects on the workbench this month! Rocco and I have been commissioned to craft custom logo guitars Read More …
Yamaha SC300T is born again!
This cherry red Yamaha SC300T was my buddy Mark Zampella’s first guitar, purchased in the early 1980s. Blues To Black Sabbath Mark learned to play Black Sabbath, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Read More …
Arturo’s Squire Bursts With Tobacco Goodness!
Our new friend Arturo dropped off a well worn Fender Squire this week. “I learned to play on this guitar,” Arturo said, adding that he bought it four or five Read More …
Joe Memphis – A little gem!
I was skeptical when Guitar Man Joe brought me this old Memphis short-scale guitar. It didn’t look like much—a vintage “el-cheapo” ‘70s electric. But once I got the Memphis cleaned Read More …
Hondo II is a Korean-made gem!
Guitar Man Joe brought us another funky classic—a tobacco sunburst Hondo II Les Paul copy. Joe even has the original sales receipt for this guitar, bought for $120 in Read More …