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TMI Vibratone

As part of my 20th anniversary this year I was going to make some guitars to hang on the wall in the shop. This plan, like so many others has...

1965 Zen On ES-70T

I've written about Zen On before here with their wonderful Morales Mosrite copies from the late sixties but prior to them they were making great solid body "offsets" with awesome...

Guyatone LG-50T and EB-1

The two things that influenced the Japanese guitar scene in the sixties more than anything else was the Beatles and the Ventures. The influence the Beatles had on guitar manufacturing...

The Kim Salmon Tym Experi-mental "flame guitar"

Back in the dark ages of Australian punk rock a pop band dragged themselves out of remote and isolated Western Australia and inadvertently started a sludgy, swampy movement that influenced a million...

Mid 60's Teisco BS-101

Being not much of a bass player I love short scale basses. I don't own a lot of basses but nearly all I do are short scale. Mosrites, Rics (well,...

1970's Guyatone SG-25T

After my blog about that amazing Yamaha SA-30 (that lasted about 15 mins in the shop) the other day I thought I'd post this blog about the very similar Guyatone SG-25T....