Recent content by Ian Ashdown

Eric who?

Don’t worry about the color. If you pick the best playing Strat, you’ll be buying another one soon! Ian SoCal

I can post pictures of mine if anyone is interested. Completely agree, non-genuine article. Ian SoCal

No! Not in mine either. It looks good! Ian SoCal

I think it’s a lacquer or something similar. It could be vacuum deposited ‘something‘ it was that thin a coating. Doesn’t matter now . . . it‘ gone! Ian

I really wanted Duraglit, but I don’t think it exists anymore. I was looking for something with minimal abrasion and thought the wadding version may be that. Seems not! I‘ve used Brasso as compound to cut paint finish if I had nothing else. Ian

I don’t like gold hardware so the unintended result was really a silver (see what I did there?) lining. The only down side is every part has to be polished to remove all trace of the gold! Ian Socal

I bet that Martin 12 String must sound glorious! ian SoCal

Mine too! Fortunately . . . Ian

I went about doing all the normal things I do to a newly acquired used guitar; clean and oil the fretboard, polish the body, polish the hardware, new strings and then start working on the setup on my new, to me, Ibanez EW40 Acoustic. It seems like a lovely little guitar. I had ordered some...

IndyCar? 🥱

I have a really cool Blue with Black edges Walker & Williams strap on my Sonic Blue Strat. It is really comfortable, looks great, and has never dropped my guitar. Unfortunately the blue finish has started to peel off. It looks really sad! So I contacted Walker & Williams to ask if anything...

Hi, I just bought an Ibanez EW40 Acoustic guitar and I’m trying to figure out the Date of Manufacture. Just wondering if anyone here has any idea how the Ibanez numbering system works. TIA Ian SoCal

My next build will be a Walnut Tele; I’ll be using a Babicz bridge on that too.

I fit Babicz on all my new builds these days, both hard tail and floating. Beautifully engineered and I really like the design principal. Ian SoCal