4.52am Issue: 008 13th November 2016

guitars with stuff like a single pickup plate
made out of sheets of thick perspex in the
workshop at school, woeful paintjobs
carried out in the shed, that sort of thing.
And of course we all wanted Floyd Roses
but none of us had anything like the right
tools to fit one.
So yeah, this is kind of a homage to those
early days of pulling guitars apart and
remaking them, except of course done a bit
better !”
In terms of the Sunset Strip, can you
tell me about the specification – is
that a DiMarzio Super Distortion?
“Yep Super Distortion, God I wanted one of
those back when I was 15, although iirc
most of us ended up with whatever we
could get from the local, provincial music
shop or one of those odd Kent Armstrong
pickups with the fluted covers, wow
remember those ?
Other than the pickup, the tremolo is a
beautiful Gotoh unit, although I am a little
disappointed that the Powder Pink tip for
the tremolo arm hadn’t arrived in time for
the photographs. The Pink Sperzels are
brilliant machine heads and were something
we had to import especially, these are great
for the builder as you no longer need to drill
the holes for the alignment pins, it just
bores it’s own. As for imports, we did the
same with the coloured Strap Pins and
knob, which are exquisitely engineered by a
company called Guique in France and are of
exceptional quality.”