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. Guitar Pickup Research and Development, Pickup Winding, and Restoration Services.
   Examples of my work.
   My DIY noise-canceling stacked pickups.

3. Alesis Quadraverb (GT) LCD Repair and Restore.
   This is my QV GT fitted with a white-on-blue LCD.
   (I have no more of these LCD modules available for sale --- October 2011.)

4. My Guitars.
   

5. Guitar Effects Electronics.

6. Vintage tape Echo Emulator: A DSP implementation of a 60's vintage analog tape echo. here.

7. Amps.
   
   My main 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).
   
   I also built two AC-15 handwired replicas from scratch. These are used mainly for practise and for recording purposes. Details are here.

8. Do check out my replica of this complex guitar effects electronics. DogZilla Preamp.
   
9. Fun at Nokie Edwards' (of the Ventures) Hall-of-Fame induction party:
   Nokie playing on a HitchHiker guitar (awsome Ventures sound).
   Nokie and me.
   

10. 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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