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1967-69 Honey SG5W

Following on from the story of the amazing Honey SG5 here is it's more complicated sibling for those who love stringing up guitars and tuning them. Honey ran from '67-69...

1960's Victor / NIVICO SG-12

I recently wrote an article about one of my all time favourite guitars, the Victor SG-18 and it's history with JVC in Japan. The only other guitar made by this...

1979 Greco BM900

This one caused quite a stir when I posted pics on social media the other day so as promised, here's a blog with heaps of pics for you all. The...

Guyatone LG-50T and EB-1

The two things that influenced the Japanese guitar scene in the sixties more than anything else was the Beatles and the Ventures. The influence the Beatles had on guitar manufacturing...

The Kim Salmon Tym Experi-mental "flame guitar"

Back in the dark ages of Australian punk rock a pop band dragged themselves out of remote and isolated Western Australia and inadvertently started a sludgy, swampy movement that influenced a million...

1970's Guyatone SB-25

After all my carry on a few weeks ago about that wonderful Yamaha SA-30 and then the Guyatone SG-25T I thought I should do a blog on this one too. The...