This guitar was given to me by Steve Beats when we both used to work in Aylesbury. Steve was a keen car-boot sale trawler and used to make some really interesting finds, for not a lot of money. This guitar wasn't one of his truly best finds, but his boat-building skills allowed him to identify that the tone wood was pure mahogany, despite a ridiculously apalling thick brown finish

Originally Steve was going to strip off the finish and put a piece of marquettry (sickeningly, yet another of his skills) onto the front. He got bored with the idea and gave the guitar to me instead.

Once the appalling brown clag and thick varnish had been removed, I gave it an oil finish and replaced all of the hardware with gold equivalents as well as getting, a set of Seymour Duncan P90 pickups. The transformation was remarkable and the tone is what you'd expect of a mahogany bodied LP with P90's..... loud and it barks like a dog with a megaphone!

This guitar also has a midi controller on it allowing me to do "keyboard" work without having to learn how to use a keyboard!