guitars

A Guitar called "Arthur" (Made in one day for the radio jingle "On The Air")

'Arthur'

"The Thing" (super 'widdly-diddly' heavy metal rock guitar) and "Plankensticken" ~fretless bass~ both made for use in The Ankh Band.

hear in track

Not much to say about any of this... Just a small selection of custom guitars is all. 1988 - 1997	"Gis'nob"
	"The Fly" "Blues Junior" (Rolling ball volume control and staggered humbucker)
	< Machine gun guitar 17th century telecaster.>
	various copy "teles"™ ®Fender
Hand made parts. Distressed finish very popular.
brass parts; hand made pickups	Distressed finish
"Disturbaphon" nylon "hinged" trem

		one-piece brass nut-string tee
	three necks and three bodies at once (never repeated)
Made from a picture frame back from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the front laminate on this one for some reason proved eye-catching to many punters. It produced voluminous orders. In the end, despite setting the number for the limited edition of hand-made "teles" at 47 (because that was the year of my birth and also the year that Leo Fender developed his ideas for the first properly-serviceable solid bodied electric, the end number was 70-ish. Lost count...		Dear old Beethoven "Bear"

"Brick wall" guitar, complete with overflow pipe, green slime and ivy scratchplate.

Electric harp made from armchair and stair bannister. Solid aluminium 18-string electric guitar, with trem system, given to Pete Townsend of 'The Who' (Break this, you f***er!)...

	Takes ages but at least you know you're breathing high quality dust...
A plastic (Formica fronted) acoustic prior to the back being fitted. 1994.

~ above left; three guitars attempting to 're-invent the wheel', previously adequately covered by Leo Fender...

~above right; a key ring for a lady who will never admit to being 40 years old...

~and to the right; a harp dulcimer for a thalidomide victim

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