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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...

1960's Victor / NIVICO SG-18's

As if any of you needed more excuse to know how much OCD I had when collecting guitars look no further than the glorious Victor / NIVICO SG-18, well, and...

1970's Guyatone SB-25

After all my carry on a few weeks ago about that wonderful Yamaha SA-30 and then the Guyatone SG-25T I thought I should do a blog on this one too. The...

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,...