There are three more ready to go in my summer sale preview – all can be bought directly from here between the 11th and 18th of June at the featured sale price, and then will get listed on eBay and Reverb.com.
DG008 “Méchant Monsieur Moutarde” is one of a series of hand-built Telecaster Thinline copies with a beefy humbucker in the neck position (this one has a Tonerider AC4, plus a Tonerider bridge single-coil). The body is a stunning walnut, the top is beech – painted in a matt mustard yellow, and it has black and chrome hardware, including locking tuners, and my usual cutdown pickguard. It’s very much a player’s guitar – the action is, I’m told, very comfortable. Just £199.
DR004 is an Epiphone Les Paul SL – this is a great little guitar. Originally it came with a very ugly pair of single coil pickups, which have been replaced with two Alnicov Firebird-style mini-humbuckers. It’s really lightweight, and so would be great for a young guitarist, has a great action and a lovely fast neck (it has been sanded and re-fretted). It’s very rock & roll. And at only £99 it can afford to be.
DG014, aka “Fantastic Beats and Where To Barn-Find Them” is a semi-acoustic barncaster Esquire made largely from a piece of European oak that was once a French fireplace mantel, with a pearwood top that features Ovation-style ‘spider eye’ sound holes. Due to the weight of the oak, the guitar is so heavily chambered (hollowed out) that it is practically an acoustic, and indeed has an internal piezo microphone (like an electro-acoustic) in the neck position. The eccentricities of very aged oak (it doesn’t like to be sanded) mean that it has something of a rough-hewn appearance in places, but then it is a Derelict barncaster! Finished in a black sparkle powdercoat, the neck has vine motif inlays, and locking tuners, and the engraved Telecaster hardware features turquoise knobs to match the turquoise pearl purfling and cutdown pickguard. It’ll be a bit of a wrench to sell this, because it has, honestly, an amazingly lovely tone and a very unique look, and is now (because it is so hollow) so light that it would be an easy play for a youngster. £150 to a good home only.
