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This is "Alice" my Epiphone Les Paul Special II. I replaced the pickups with Gibson 496-R and 500-T humbuckers (same as Flying Vee or "Jimmy Page" signature). The volume pot has been replaced with a push-pull that is set up for single or double coil use. The tuners have been replaced with Schallers. The action is set up very low and it is a very fast, light weight guitar. I generally keep this in a DGDGBD tuning. It has a nice full distorted sound for things like the "Black Crows" and the "Stones". The artwork is from Alice in Wonderland. 

This is my Nashville Deluxe Telecaster. It is totally stock with Tex-Mex pickups and a maple fret board. I usually play with the selection switch "in-between" the pickups for a nice clean, slightly out of phase sound. When cranked, this guitar responds very nicely to a distortion pedal and has a very nice "cut through the mix" sound with the bridge pickup. I keep this guitar in standard tuning and use the clean settings for Jazz and C&W and distort it for typical Chuck Berry type Rn'R.

This is my Carvin double neck circa mid 1970's. This has more switches than my car and is almost as heavy. Other than that it is a beauty. The 12 string neck has C22 Carvin pickups and I replaced the 6 string neck with Carvin M22T and M22SD pickups. The small toggles control phase, split pole and polarity and the larger ones are for pickups and neck choice. The action on both necks is phenominal and the 12 string neck stays in tune forever! The 12 string neck is tuned CGCEGC (var. of open C) and the 6 string neck is tuned DGDGBD. The body and necks are "Rock Maple" and it requires a 4" strap, minimum.

This is a custom acoustic that I built myself. The top is Englemann Spruce, the sides are "Tiger Maple". The bridge and fretboard are ebony and the back is carved maple. It has Grover tuners and an active Fishman pickup in the bridge. The pick guard is an old Glenn Miller acetate record. The Celtic knot at the sound hole is mimiced in the green abalone fret markers. The purfling is all inlayed veneer. It is a quiet guitar and I often play it late at night while everyone is asleep.

This is my Alvarez 5021-12 string. Nancy had a "Hot Dot" pickup installed in it for my birthday. It has a nice full sound and I generally keep it in standard tuning because it has so many overtones that I have a hard time tuning it when my ears are tired. I bought this in Little Rock Arkansas in '77. I was killing time in a music store and this guitar just talked to me. It was pouring rain and I had no place to play it so I drove out of town. The sun finally came out and I pulled over and walked out into a cotton field and sat down on a bale to try it out. The black pickers stopped what they were doing and came over to listen. It was an instant epiphany!

This is a Yamaha FG-110 that I have had forever. It has been played so much that the top is spongy and no longer produces crisp highs. It does however have great mids and bottom. It has a Lawrence humbucker mounted in the sound hole and I have the action set a little on the high side. I keep it tuned in DGDGBD and use it for bottle necking. It has a wonderful blues sound and I often record rhythm tracks with it instead of a standard electric.

This is a Giannini 12 string circa 1970. I rescued it from a friend's basement. The bridge has bellied the sound board from the tension of concert tuning so I keep it tuned to CGCGCE which doesn't exert as much force on the bridge. It has a nice soft action and when used with a capo it makes a plausible mandolin. The sides and back are nicely figured Rosewood. It is a little fragile so it does not get to see the light of day much.

This is my Epihone Les Paul Bass. It is totally stock with EMG pickups. It is small and light and serves my needs just fine. I had a full upright acoustic bass that took up more room than a couch that I sold and used the money to buy this. It stores much better.

This is my daughter Tegan's Squire Stratacaster. She lets me borrow it sometimes so that's why it's here. You can get a really nice funky sound out of it. A lot like the "Spin Doctors" sound. It plays very nicely and I sometimes have difficulty prying it out of my hands when I pick it up.

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