Recent content by Rev.WillieVK

I know that Advanced Plating in Nashville had a fire last August - does anybody know if they are still going strong, whether the fire was major or minor? They are a fantastic plating shop and do a lot of OEM work for Gibson and other guitar builders - highly recommended!

Please check your private messages. Thanks! :salude

Compiling information posted in another thread. Many thanks to cfh, Fried Okra, J.D., Walter Carter, et al. ________________________________________________ All of the '58 Goldtops I've inspected (several) have had a stairstep route in the switch cavity. I don't know when the stairstep started...

Todd Rundgren in the mid/late '70s - nice secure jack! :hee:dude:

SIMO Band - featuring our buddy JD - live in concert at the Rockpalast! http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/rockpalast/video-rockpalast-simo---crossroads--100.html (I think the link may only last a week or 2 so watch it soon!)

I recently had an opportunity to photograph some guitars for a friend and thought this was interesting. The lighter colored Esquire is a 2 owner guitar that was literally played in church and then put away, hence the less butterscotch color. The darker Esquire has been around the block with...

Lemmy, 70 David Bowie, 69 Glen Frey, 67 Dallas Taylor, 67 Dale 'Buffin' Griffin, 67 Craig Strickland, 29 Not to mention others like Alan Rickman, 69, and Dan Haggarty, 74. WTF 2016?? Stop this, now.

About a month ago I saw a ‘50s Fender on Reverb that caught my eye because it was very light weight: 6.5 pounds. I have been on a ‘lightweight guitar binge’ recently and this one was exceptional because most are over 7 pounds. I decided to make an offer. The seller was Cowtown Guitars of Las...

Like many people here, I’ve been a big fan of Reverb.com since they appeared on the scene 2-3 years ago. I must look on their site a dozen times a week, and I have bought a couple of things through them. However there are some ‘rules’ I wasn’t aware of until recently that I thought I would...

Hey Eric E. - hope you and yours are doing alright and not too greatly impacted by the SC flooding. Best wishes to any and all who might be affected by that Southeast deluge. :salude

How finicky are all of you when it comes to putting a new nut on a vintage Fender? Of course it has to be installed properly and professionally, but are we as nuts about the proper or next-best-thing when it comes to Fender nuts are we are about our Gibson nuts? (4/6 nylon, 6/6 nylon, etc...

Gibson L-C (L-Century) 'Century Of Progress', started in 1935 and finished in 1936

These are said to be a '56 and a '61 that both weigh just over 6.5 pounds

Did Gibson come out with their blond finish TVs and Specials partly in response to the success of Fender's blond Esquires, Broadcasters, and Telecasters? It sure seems that Fender came out with the Stratocaster in sunburst partly because of the long history of Gibson sunburst finishes. What do...

I worked with Kip and the fine people at Starr Guitars to build me a '53 Blackguard Tele replica and boy did they ever! The body was built from scratch, the neck was bought and heavily re-worked and modified (including my favorite '56 v-carve), and I supplied most of the parts including the...