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 | Fender American Deluxe Strat Ash - my sons wanted to buy me a present, and this is what they got me. This guitar is stunning - beautifully made, finished and designed. Some will question the authenticity of the sound and playing experience compared to early Strats - but this is a great guitar in it's own right... it is my favourite guitar for electric folk stuff.... | |
 | '69 Fender Telecaster Thinline reissue (altho' it's not really that anymore) - a great sounding, great playing, super light & very well made guitar. I have added a Fishman Power bridge and a SD 'Lil 59. Dave at Ridgeway Guitars has made a stunning new body for this guitar from swamp ash capped with lightly figured maple and edge bound.I have added a five way switch which allows choice between the neck pickup and single coil and humbucker versions of the bridge pickup and a couple of out-of-phase combinations. | |
 | Tokai Jazz Sound Bass - an obvious rip of a Fender Jazz Bass - very nicely made - with the range of sounds you'd expect. | |
 | Faith Mercury- is a parlour guitar with a fairly 'small', sweet sound and a short scale length - it has a great tone and is able to cut through a mix of other acoustic instruments. It has a solid Sitka spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides, and ebony fingerboard and bridge - I've fitted a K and K Pure Western Mini piezo pickup to it recently, which gives an amazingly natural amplified sound. I've recently sold the Jupiter (the larger of the two pictured guitars) - its large body made it increasingly uncomfortable for me to play. | |
 | Yet another amp, and I'm not going to make the mistake of saying this is the Holy Grail..... but this Peavey Delta Blues 15 is pretty damn good - the 15" (45cm) speaker gives bags of bottom end and counters a slight harshness in the amp circuit (see Peavey Classic 30) - maybe I should just flash out and buy a Rivera or Matchless - it would probably have been cheaper in the long run. I use an Ibanez DE7 delay and a Morley Volume/Wah connected via the effects loop; and a Boss CS3 Compression Sustainer pedal on the front end of the amp. | |
 | To amplify the acoustic pickups on my guitars I use a Roland AC60 acoustic amp. This is a brilliant amp, which also gives a great clean sound for magnetic pickups - my Strat sounds so Strat-y through this it's hard to believe. | |
