Guitars and other instruments

• Low quality Stratocaster clone of asian origin (El Degas) fitted with a Lutherie MF custom-made neck. Why put a high quality neck on a low quality guitar? For sentimental reasons, that’s why. The guitar is fitted, from neck to bridge, with the following pickups: a Torres Engineering BLUES STRAT, a Dimarzio HS-2 and a Dimarzio BLUESBUCKER.

• Epiphone Sheraton fitted with WCR Fillmore pickups and an Epiphone EZ-Bender b-bender.

• A home-made Telecaster assembled from genuine Fender parts bought mostly on eBay. The guitar is equipped, from neck to bridge, with the following pickups: a Lollar CHARLIE CHRISTIAN and a Lollar SPECIAL T SERIES. The guitar has been retrofitted with a Parsons-White stringbender by Gene Parsons.

• The “barncaster”. Another home-made Telecaster being assembled. I presently have the body (below, made from the wood of a Montana barn), the control plate and the pickup  (a Dearmond 210 acoustic guitar pickup that will be fitted in the neck position; I know, weird experiment). The bridge pickup will be a Seymour Duncan BG-1400 Lead Stack.

• The Blueridge BR-160, which seems destined to become a modern classic if one is to believe the Harmony Central reviews. I’ve equipped mine with a LR Baggs M1 pickup.

• A 12-string acoustic-electric Washburn Woodstock as played by Jimmy Page on the song NO QUARTER, on the DVD NO QUARTER.

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Dulcimer made by luthier Al (?) John in 1976, numbered #1. The dulcimer, according to the seller, was made in the US in Florida. I haven’t been able to trace back any information on the web about this particular luthier.

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• Washburn mandolin. Not the newer stuff but something approximately 100 years old. Mainly decorative.