GUITARS AMPS & GEAR

It all started with a broken aucustic guitar and an idee to bye a new one. As you can see below the idee sort of multiplied it self and took control over a large space of our bedroom wall. At that time I was prohibited by my family to expand my idee further. It was at this point I introduced stomp boxes as a better and not such a space demanding hobby, at least that was what I thought then……
You can see the results of that thought on the Effect Projects page.

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Gibson Les Paul Special 1998 with two P90 instead of the original P100
This is the apple of my ear. I bought it from guy a who lives north of the Arctic Circle. He had used it for blues and slide. This instrument plays like a dream. And its howls like a lone wolf that bears soul tearing marks from the distant land of the midnight sun and the never ending arctic night. He had changed the original Tun-omatic bridge for a junior bridge. The machine heads are also changed to junior look-alikes. It is in descent condition. The frets are quite weared down and bear string marks from hitting the slide hard against the strings. Still it plays like a dream. This one I will never sell


Gibson Les Paul Classic 2004 Honey burst.
This is the apple of my eye. I bought it from a guy who was in desperate need of cash to pay his far eastern trip with his friends. It is in mint condition and it plays like a dream but sound like crap. This is because the ceramic high output pickups. They are simply dynamically stone dead. I plan to change them to a pair of RPS original that is similar to the 57:s but not at the Gibson fee.

 

Uppdate:

On the Stockholm Guitar Fair  I stubled on a guy who marketed Tonerider pickups. I had nevere heard of them but at $100 for a set i thought that it was worth a try. It really payd off. They sound as good as my frends Gibson 335 from 74. The neck is a ALNICO IV Classic and the bridge is a Rocksong ALNICO II. The sound is very open and nice, just what I wanted. The middle position on the pickup select is really nice. I can Really recomend thouse pickups 

www.tonerider.com 


Former a OLP MM1 now a Telecaster wannebee
This is the guitar that started it all. Originally this was a standard Hummbucker setup with only a volume knob, cloned after the Music man Axis. It is a very good quality Korean axe. I liked it but I wanted a single coil as well. It was then I bought the LP classic and found my self with two HB guitars. What to do? I simply routed space for SC pups and as I went on also routed and mounted a binding. The hardware is Telecaster. I cut off a tele bridge to carry the bridge pickup and left the original fender type tremolo bridge in there. Originally it was orange. I painted the top and head black with nitrocellulose black color and 10 clear coat layers before the finishing polish. I am quite satisfied with the result, Its hard to see on the pictures. The new singel coil pickups are from T-bear. A Swedish boutique pickup maker in the same class as Lundgren although hi is more known. I wired the switch to be a 4 position with the 4:th in series as the Baja Tele. It sound grate. As for playability, the neck is to flat for me. Eventually I might bye me a Tele but I will never sell this one. I have invested to much work and care in it. I just dont know how I will sell this id?e to my family. No more guitars as promised. And I don’t want to lose no one of them. Tricky business.

1996 Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster
This one just jumped on to me when I had my guard down. Not very nice done but I have forgive and we are friends now. It is in very good condition considering the age. Plays very nice and sounds good although the bridge pickup sounds a bit to thin for my taste. I might change it to a Lundgren but it all comes down to money and time.


Lap Steel Made in Bengts garage
What do you do if you have a couple of HB pickups to spare and a friend who has a wood workshop in his garage? Most people wouldn't do anything at all but I vent out and bought me a good piece of mahogny and made my self a Lap Steel guitar.

Ibanez Artwood AW15
This is my birthday present from my friends or at least a part of it is. Thanks all. It's a fair acoustic guitar with a really nice sound and plays good. I like

Yes, it sounds as good as they say

Why build a speaker cabinet when you can buy one? Because you live in the center of the city and space is of the essence. And because youre cabinet has to fit under a chair and still contain a 12 inch speaker. Thats why. It is 22 mm (1") all wood with a Celestion Vintage 30 inside. It also accomendates the 9" reverb tank. I had to import the orange tolex from Germany. The total cost is more than a Orange 1X12 but they don’t do the fit under a chair trick.

Line6 POD 2.0
Yes I have one of those as well. I don’t use it that much any longer. I prefer to do it the analog way but sometimes, late in the evenings, my neighbours prefer that I use this and headphones. At least I guess so.


The mick I record with. It is a SM 57 clone and I think it sounds good.

If I could sing I would do it in to this. I cant but I still do It. I dont know why buy I am probably to naive to stop. Or could it have to do with that I think Its a lot of fun?