I really built my first guitar in 1956 and have 9 others on the wall with 3 more in progress. I live on 160 acres and the neighbors keep sending me airline tickets to other countries.I’m waiting for them to get me a pass port. I play blues only when the wife comes in yelling turn that darn thing down. I am over 75 years young and learn something new every day from your e-mails. and lead on the back at the same time.The front is played right handed while the back is lefty. I find the hardest part of playing is when playing rhythm on the l.p. The front is played through a Marshall amp while the back is played through a fender 1965 85watt dual reverb tube amp. side has hum buckers and the back has 3 single coils It also has 2 outputs. It has 12 strings, 6 in front and 6 in back. The front or back deciding how it is held.
That was in 1956, My latest creation is what I call a combo guitar. It took 6 months to build out of mahogany and with an oak neck.That oak is sure hard to make with a sharp knife. He said go ahead get a release from my parents and go for it. When 14 years old I coulden’t afford a guitar so I asked the wood shop teacher id I could build a guitar in H.S. I hope my little story lightened up your burden a bit. He replied, “While you are packing up all that crap, the trumpet player will be leaving with the girls!” I brought the gear home and my dad said, “Son why do you want to play the electric guitar?” I said, “Daddy, it’s cool…you know…Beatles, Rolling Stones, blues.”ĭad said, “You ought to play the trumpet.” I said, “The trumpet? Why?”
I bought the Strat and a Princeton amp by trading my Gibson Melody Maker and a Champ amp and paying by the week earning money from mowing yards. I went down to Werlein’s Music in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963 to buy my 1963 Stratocaster (which I still have by the way). My dad ended up with Alzheimers, but up until 10 days before he died, he might not have known me, but he still sang harmony on the old hymns in the nursing home chapel. My dad always sang in church choirs and barbershop quartets. To lighten things up, here is a story about my dad and music… A dad is a great influence on a boy and young man’s life.