Guitar Building and Music Activities

Guitars and music has been a passion since age 16. Influences: the music style of the Shadows and Ventures, 1960's surf music, The Eagles, Mark Knopfler, Tony Mottola, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, etc.

My first electric guitar was a "Carlton" brand; a heavy guitar with a plywood body and wood-laminate top (wood grain). It was fitted with two pickups (not sure what kind) and a fairly-decent tremelo. The neck was straight and the guitar was set up nicely. Actually, surprisingly-good quality for a $27 investment.

1. Samples of my music is available on MySpace and Bandmix. Please see:
   link to MySpace
   link to BandMix
   

2. Single-Coil Research and Development and the quest for the perfect tone

3. Alesis Quadraverb (GT) LCD Repair and Restore.
   This is my QV GT fitted with a white-on-blue LCD.
   I still have some spare LCD modules available for sale. These are wired and tested and looks like the one on the picture above.

4. My Guitars.
   

5. Guitar Effects Electronics.

6. Amps.
   
   My main tube amplifier is a hand-wired replica of a 60's Vintage VOX AC30 that I built from a kit. This is a Weber 6V30 head kit finished in tooled black leather tolex ( see inside.) Most everything is stock, except the power transformer which is a Mercury Magnetics VXP-30. DC filaments for the pre-amp is used. For reliability reasons, additional B+ fusing was added along with cooler biasing. This amp is used with a 2x12 Avatar speaker cabinet, housing a pair of Celestion Alnico Blue, 12-inch, ( speakers).
   

7. Fun at Nokie Edwards' (of the Ventures) Hall-of-Fame induction party:
   Nokie playing on a HitchHiker guitar (awsome Ventures sound).
   Nokie and me.
   

8. With Roy Pedersen at a recent gig in Junction City, Oregon.
   Roy was 94 at the time the picture was taken. He was famous in his heyday as a country-and-western drummer with "The Dudes of the West". Vera, Roy's wife, was the singer in the band.
   Drummer Roy.
   

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