Category: guitars

I recently bought this guitar to replace my original Yamaha G55 classical guitar. It’s pretty basic, but it does the job. It’s hard to tell how old it is from the serial number as it’s hard to decipher and they …

Yamaha G-225 nylon acoustic Read More »

I bought this guitar second hand in 2014 after injuring my hand playing the old Vester while intensively rehearsing for a gig. It came from Dunalley and survived the 2013 bushfire. Unfortunately, soon after I got it, it took a …

Washburn D10SCE electric acoustic (2004) Read More »

For my 50th birthday I finally got a guitar with a whammy bar! This US Strat is in Olympic White and has replaced my Telecaster as my main guitar. I used it extensively on my album “Going Back” and it …

Fender US Stratocaster (2013) Read More »

I went halves in this Indonesian made 3/4 bass with my son when he was playing in the rock bands at school in 2013. We bought it from one of my former students who was now more into motorbikes than …

Samick Greg Bennett Corsair 3/4 bass (2008) Read More »

Typically my younger students will start out with one of these guitars, so I bought this one to have available for them to use, and also for me to play along with them on a similar guitar to theirs.

Made in London, S/N 4650 While not a guitar this instrument holds a special place in my collection. It belonged to my father and was kept under his bed in its original case. I used to get it out occasionally …

J. G. Abbott ‘Monarch’ banjo ukelele (1942) Read More »

My first student, Sam, made this for me during the Christmas holidays. It’s an unusual guitar in that it has a sandstone body with a sandstone neck. It’s very solidly built and never goes out of tune. It’s a little difficult to …

Rock Guitar (2011) Read More »

We bought this Indonesian built guitar for my son when he was 7, but he hardly used it so I keep it around for my younger students to use occasionally. It plays reasonably well and would make a half decent …

Fender Squier Mini 3/4 electric (2009) Read More »

This guitar was my fortieth birthday present. We were in Melbourne for some reason and I went into Cranbourne Music to try it out, since there were none available in Tasmania at the time. Being a computer programmer I was …

Line 6 Variax 500 modelling guitar (2003) Read More »

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 …

Vester VDN335CEQ electric acoustic (circa 1994) Read More »