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  • Here's a fairly recent group photo. The latest was that Martin SC-13e all the way to the right. I have to tell you, it has blown me away. It is my new favorite guitar for sure.


    I will show this pic to my wife: ''darling this the avarage quantity of guitars of any Kemper User !''

  • Here's a fairly recent group photo. The latest was that Martin SC-13e all the way to the right. I have to tell you, it has blown me away. It is my new favorite guitar for sure.


    Everything from godin and ovations to lespaul customs and schecters. This would look like my dream team set of guitars.

    The answer is 42

  • Here's a fairly recent group photo. The latest was that Martin SC-13e all the way to the right. I have to tell you, it has blown me away. It is my new favorite guitar for sure.


    I suffer enough guilt as it is from not playing my measly handful of guitars often enough. A room like this would probably cause permanent emotional damage.

    Kemper remote -> Powered toaster -> Yamaha DXR-10

  • My latest guitar is my "lockdown project", which I have just completed.
    It's a T-style - 25.5" scale length - with a 22 fret neck.
    Details, for anyone who's interested, are:
    1-piece, reclaimed mahogany body with forearm chamfer and deep belly cut.
    The neck was made for me by renowned UK luthier, Jon Shuker, and is roasted flame maple with a separate matching fingerboard.
    It had twin carbon reinforcing rods and nut-end truss-rod adjustment. It's a 12" radius, 22 jumbo stainless steel frets, luminlay side markers, bone nut and my own headstock design. The tuners are Hipshot open-gear locking units. The string tree is by Dynaguide, in the Netherlands, and the nut is bone. Gloss polyurethane on the front, satin on the rear.

    The scratchplate is copper sheet which was laser-cut to my design, secured by stainless steel screws.

    Pickups are from Monty's (previously in London, now in Cheltenham), and are a "Full Monty" in the bridge and a Firebird in the neck, both with raw nickel covers.
    The bridge pickup surround is aluminium, from Anomaly in Cornwall.

    The bridge is from ABM in Germany and is solid brass.

    Electrics are simple: 3-way Oak Grigsby switch, master volume (Mojotone vintage taper CTS 500K), Master tone (Alpha 500K push/push), with series/parallel switching for the bridge humbucker from the tone control.

    Knobs are machined from brass, as is the switch tip, and are both made by Grainger Guitars here in the UK.

    Schaller straplocks.

    The colour is called Pebble Grey.

    The guitar is gratifyingly light, despite the heavy metals and mahogany!



  • wow. What a beauty!

    Can i ask what you paid roughly for the scratchplate? and are other materials possible maybe with some etching? I have zero experience in laser cutting...


    a used LTD Tele is on the way and i want to use it as a mod base...

    The scratchplate is copper sheet which was laser-cut to my design, secured by stainless steel screws.

  • wow. What a beauty!

    Can i ask what you paid roughly for the scratchplate? and are other materials possible maybe with some etching? I have zero experience in laser cutting...


    a used LTD Tele is on the way and i want to use it as a mod base...

    Thank you! The copper sheet was the expensive part, actually - the laser cutting itself was quite inexpensive. I had one made in copper and one in aluminium and the latter was 1/5th the cost of the copper!
    I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post details of suppliers on here, but if you PM me, I'll let you have the details of the company I used, plus costs and so on.



  • That is super cool! A really unique build, I like the headstock design and the scratch plate in particular. Cool concept. How much does it weigh approximately?

  • I love tele's and I love this one.