Good Evening Guy

I’ve just stumbled across an interview you gave on Collectors Club of Great Britain, as I was just trying to find out more about a guitar that belonged to my Dad. The guitar in question is a Tremo Twenty and unfortunately it’s in a bit of a sorry state. It’s repairable though and I fully intend to bring this guitar back to life. My Dad told me that it had a very unique sound and we spent a little bit of time before he passed away, restoring the electrics and machine heads. Anyway, I don’t wish to go on too much about it, but I read with great interest how rare these are and that you know of only 3 in existence so I felt compelled to email and let you know of a 4th, safely tucked away in my loft for the moment but soon to be dusted off and restored fully.

Kind regards,
Martin

Hello Guy

I was amazed to come across this guitar in your collection, whilst cruising around trying to find any guitar made by John Bailey. Your electric number was made by John for Andrew Townend, a boy I went to school with in the 60s. Andy and I used to play together in a bluegrass band back then. His Bailey, now yours, was, and still is I guess, was a great instrument!

Great collection!

All the best
Peter

Hi Guy

I’ve been meaning to send you a picture of my Guild Stratford X350B which is, as you know, very rare. I also include a picture of me in 1985 with my two Grimshaws – The M57 and my custom built Barney Kessel style guitar, which I still have as you know.

Best wishes
Ron Barrett

Hi Guy

It was really good to meet you recently and, as promised, here is a picture of me with my Shergold 12-string Masquerader – which I still use in my act today.

Best wishes
Jim Knight

PS – I thought you’d be interested to see the backdrop to this picture… Carn Brea Castle!

Hi Guy

I have just bought a guitar with Rellog Gitona pick ups and Fenton Weill vibrato arm from ebay (haven’t received it yet tho!).

It caught my fancy, because I collect a lot of early Hofner guitars. But after searching for more details on the internet I saw your page with the Alexis Korner & Cyril Davis photo (the guitar looks exactly the same with original 2 plug cord).

Do you have any further details?

Best wishes
Klive

Hello, God dag!

I am writing to ask for some information regarding a 1963 Hagstrom Futurama Coronado Automatic (serial number: 568079) that I have come into possession of. Or rather the remains of this guitar.

The Guitar has been woefully mistreated over the years. The paint has been very badly sanded off, it is missing 2 of the pickups and all of the switches. It still has the original vibrato/tailpiece, the truss-rod cover and machine heads.

Originally I was hoping to refurbish this guitar to its original condition. However it seems that it will be incredibly difficult to find all the necessary parts to do this. So I am thinking it might be useful to others to sell the parts to be used for replacement in other Hagstrom guitars.

I am therefore looking for help finding people who would be interested in these parts – or who can help me source replacement parts to refurbish this guitar.

Any help or advice that you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your time,
Chris

Hello there

I’m writing from Poland. I wanted to sell my Defil Baston 22 and some guy from the guitar forum send me your site and adviced me to write to you. I’m sending few photos of the bass. The photos were made with my phone and they are quite bad, so if you are interested – please tell me.

Rock on,
Lukasz

Hi Guy

Just wanted to thank you for the information you gave me on the colour and headstock badge of this Fenton Weill.

After some time I have finally finished it and am now pretty pleased that I finally went for the restoration. I found a bit of the original colour under the scratch plate in the router holes so was able to match it up best I could. The headstock badge was made up from that grainy picture off the internet, it has turned out a little thinner, maybe I should have taken up your offer and looked at your one first. With your advice I managed to source an ivory acrylic sheet!

All the best
Mark

I’d like to thank one of my Facebook friends for letting me add this great vintage picture of Alexis Korner and his “Rellog” guitar to my Guestbook.

This is of course one of the earliest electric guitars available in the UK, dating from 1958/9, and imported in very small quantities from East Germany. Although I refer to it as a Rellog the body was, in fact, built by Musima and the pickups are Rellog Gitona. Of course it was fairly unplayable by today’s standards with a thick neck etc – but it was one of very few available at that time.

I know of only one other example in the UK and, despite my best efforts, the owner won’t sell it! And you can be sure that I’ve tried my best to buy it!

But if anyone reading this knows of any other or can add any more information, please contact me.

Guy.

Hi Guy,

I too suffer from serious gear acquisition syndrome – I have 45 guitars in my collection. Like you, I find the more obscure and unusual guitars to be far more interesting than the run of the mill Teles and Strats etc.

A couple of days ago, I was walking past a pawn shop in my local town when I saw hung up on the wall a little Japanese Sakai. I just had to have it! Imagine my surprise to find that you have one exactly the same, especially as I’ve never seen one before.

(You can see the Sakai referred to here in the Galleries: Japanese Sakai.)

I know that you are a drummer, but I can tell you that little Sakai has a great tone and plays really well. To think that years ago you used to pick this stuff up in Woolworths for about nine quid! Over the years so much of this stuff has been broken up or chucked away, so finding a good example is becoming increasingly difficult.

Keep collecting Guy, I always find your magazine articles really interesting.

Cheers
Frank