Guitar
- Bizarro 1960s Kingston 12-string Solidbody Electric Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's a real oddity, a 1960s-era Kingston 12-string solidbody, of a peculiar design that I certainly have never seen before. It is a very odd shape. It may just be me, but I fancy that if it were finished in yellow rather than...
- Fender Custom Shop Gold Over Paisley Heavy Relic Stratocaster
guitarz.blogspot.com I've always been clear about the fact that I don't like strats and that I loathe so-called relic finishes. Once in a while though, it's good to have one's certainties shaken, and I really enjoy this Fender Custom Shop...
- 1968 Kawai Roundback Acoustic - Japanese Ovation Glen Campbell Copy
guitarz.blogspot.com: I'm going to be lazy and lift the details about this Kawai guitar straight from the seller's description on eBay. When it's already been said so well, why re-write it? The downright weirdness of this guitar may be lost...
- Kawai Aquarius Blog
There is a particularly interesting new post on the Kawai Aquarius blog, with German rock band Abraxas guitarist Sven Hirschfeld telling the story of his Aquarius and its several modifications over the last 30 years - until it reaches what he considers...
- Ok, Serious Stuff Now
So I've been postponing the making of my guitar projects probably also because, well, I just have to start from zero... Drawing and designing I can do easily but about guitar technics, the further I've been so far is restringing - and not as...
Guitar
customized Kawai Aquarius Custom
My very first electric guitar, bought in 1982 (a gift from my dear mother, may she be blessed, she didn't know), at the time when Japanese guitars were so despised that the seller told me that it was "a mistake for the japs to have made such a good Fender copy"(though it's far from being a mere stratocaster clone). Kawai usually makes piano and acoustic instruments, and made a few electric guitars until the 80s - I don't have much more information about this one... It seems that Aquarius was mostly Kawai's line of bass, and I once saw a 12-string Aquarius - that's it.
Originally it was electric blue, and as I was in a band playing a kind of dark batcave music, I added golden paisley pattern - my own sense of humour...
When I had better guitars I stopped using it unless i needed a whammy bar, until 2003 when it was used mostly as a prop in a dance performance and really mistreated - its electronics got broken. Experimenting lately on new guitar sounds, I decided to give it a second life, had the pickups fixed at Alex-Guitars in Berlin, sanded it and revealed its beautiful blond maple wood slightly varnished, replaced the white pickguard by an aluminum one, changed the whammy bar and modified the nut to put baritone strings, and I use it now in variable open tunings.
Originally it was electric blue, and as I was in a band playing a kind of dark batcave music, I added golden paisley pattern - my own sense of humour...
When I had better guitars I stopped using it unless i needed a whammy bar, until 2003 when it was used mostly as a prop in a dance performance and really mistreated - its electronics got broken. Experimenting lately on new guitar sounds, I decided to give it a second life, had the pickups fixed at Alex-Guitars in Berlin, sanded it and revealed its beautiful blond maple wood slightly varnished, replaced the white pickguard by an aluminum one, changed the whammy bar and modified the nut to put baritone strings, and I use it now in variable open tunings.
- Bizarro 1960s Kingston 12-string Solidbody Electric Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's a real oddity, a 1960s-era Kingston 12-string solidbody, of a peculiar design that I certainly have never seen before. It is a very odd shape. It may just be me, but I fancy that if it were finished in yellow rather than...
- Fender Custom Shop Gold Over Paisley Heavy Relic Stratocaster
guitarz.blogspot.com I've always been clear about the fact that I don't like strats and that I loathe so-called relic finishes. Once in a while though, it's good to have one's certainties shaken, and I really enjoy this Fender Custom Shop...
- 1968 Kawai Roundback Acoustic - Japanese Ovation Glen Campbell Copy
guitarz.blogspot.com: I'm going to be lazy and lift the details about this Kawai guitar straight from the seller's description on eBay. When it's already been said so well, why re-write it? The downright weirdness of this guitar may be lost...
- Kawai Aquarius Blog
There is a particularly interesting new post on the Kawai Aquarius blog, with German rock band Abraxas guitarist Sven Hirschfeld telling the story of his Aquarius and its several modifications over the last 30 years - until it reaches what he considers...
- Ok, Serious Stuff Now
So I've been postponing the making of my guitar projects probably also because, well, I just have to start from zero... Drawing and designing I can do easily but about guitar technics, the further I've been so far is restringing - and not as...