This guitar was made in Korea, but apart from that I don’t know a lot about it’s origins. I’m not sure when I bought it, it couldn’t have been much later than 1994 since the company was sued by Fender …
Author: wpadmin
Yamaha FG 410 12A 12 string acoustic (1992)
It was made in Taiwan and according to the guitar dater project the serial number (20411684) reveals that this guitar was made on April 11th 1992. As with a lot of 12 string guitars it’s very difficult to tune, so I generally …
Fender US Telecaster (1991)
For many years this was my number one guitar. It feels great – so smooth and easy to play. It’s been with me for most of my live performances playing guitar. I remember when I bought it I had to wait …
Epiphone PR350S steel acoustic (1989)
This was my favourite acoustic guitar for about 20 years until I bought the Washburn. I don’t remember which Hobart store I bought it in, but I do remember trying many guitars in all the stores until I found this …
Washburn Scavenger Bass (1981)
In the early eighties I was playing in the covers band ‘Flex’, but we had too many guitarists so I stopped playing for a while and did the frontman thing with just a microphone to hide behind. When the band …
Hondo II Strat copy (circa 1980)
My parents bought me this guitar when I was at Rosny College, and had been playing in my first band ‘Unit Rock’ for a while. It’s main selling point was that it has DiMarzio pickups, which sounded like a good …
Audition Electric (pre 1978)
I bought this guitar second hand from a friend for $20 sometime in the late seventies. The brand is Audition and I think it originally came from K-Mart. A truly awful guitar, but my first electric, which I used to …
Yamaha G55-1 nylon string acoustic (circa 1976)
When I got to Rose Bay High School, playing guitar seemed to be somewhat frowned upon by the music teachers and wasn’t allowed in the first year, so I spent a year playing the cornet instead. In grade 8 we …
Sweet Tone 3/4 steel string acoustic (circa 1971)
This was my first guitar which my parents bought for me when I was about 8 and in grade 3 at Lindisfarne Primary School. It’s a ‘Sweet Tone’ 3/4 size steel string acoustic guitar made in Shanghai, China. It’s got …
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