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Servicing vintage Japanese rocker switches

Over the years I have owned many hundred vintage Japanese guitars with these rocker switches. They were common on Japanese manufactured guitars throughout the sixties (and some in the seventies)...

Guyatone LG-23 pickup rewind

So as I mentioned recently I finally got my pickup winder going again to repair a whole bunch of vintage pickups I have lying around here after 25 years of...

2000 Tym Mosrong 500

So here's a blast from the past. Back in the dark ages when I made guitars because everything was hand made I made and offered lots of different options and...

1965-66 Pleasant SEL-220

I've written about these Pleasant guitars before and this one didn't last long in the shop but I thought I'd do a quick blog about it anyway as I do...

Late 60's Guaytone LG-125T in a rare(r) colour

I've written about these great Guyatone LG-125T's before so I won't bore you with the details again and I've written about Guyatone MANY times so I won't go into that...

Early 70's Guyatone SG-22T

The Guyatone SG-22T was their most expensive hollow body when it was introduced in 1966/67 at 35,000 yen and was only beaten in price by the LG-200 and the LG-350T...