Recent content by UncleGreg

Your friend and mine, Matt Smith, left us last night. The clinician for Hamer and Ovation for many years, Matt was an amazing walking vault to musical knowledge  and technical skill.   He was also one of the warmest and kindest people to ever walk on the planet.  He ran Six String Ranch in...

Full song.... https://youtu.be/2YSCLWhVAnA?si=ygAHnQak_6WkXT2U

I have been taking care of Davy Knowles' guitars and at a recent show I brought my 59 TV for him to play. He asked me if I had an amp in the van. I had my trusty old bulletproof Tech21 Trademark60.  He told me to bring it in that we would jam and I assumed this would be before the show. I was...

...with the custom pickups....

That was an amazing guitar.

Update… Jol confirmed it's a 1981 and sent me the page that it was listed on. I dug a very early PAF and a very early Duncan 59 and a mid 80s gold Floyd out of the parts piles and put this thing together. New CTS pots. Right now there is a mishmash of tuning machines on the headstock but I have...

1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1959, 1962

The headstock has been repaired. It seems to be very solid.

0457 this is just a quick mock up… The guitar was routed for a Floyd and all of the original parts are gone. It has a previous headstock repair. I thought about going through the effort of restoring it and decided that it will be more fun to just play it. So I dug an old gold Floyd out of the...

When it gets here. 

I just bought a 4 digit Standard.  The pots and pickups are not original.  What year would a mid 04xx guitar be?

2016.  I was there helping GNL guitars set up their custom shop and Dave let me shoot video in Leo's office.  

I have Ankylosing Spondylitis(like Mick Mars), and concentrated tart cherry juice is an amazing anti inflammatory that that doesn't suck.   A couple shots a day, poured over vanilla ice cream, added to smoothies...lots of ways to use it and it WORKS.