Jeff's Guitars

1971 Mosrite V-1 Standard----I've wanted a Mosrite for a LONG time, but the price of them has gone STUPID, it seems more so since Johnny Ramone passed on. I took the plunge and bought this one at a guitar show in Spartanburg, SC. This is basically the Ventures model without the logo. Nothing sounds like these things, I only wish I had it back in the Snake Creek days. It has the sound I wanted, but couldn't afford one at the time. This isn't one of the new ones, this is the real deal.

1998 Gibson Les Paul Standard DC---I love this guitar. I bought this also at Shelby Music, not long after I bought the Classic. They had just gotten it in, and I played it and fell in love. So out came the Visa check card...again. It has gold hardware, tiger stripe top, and is much lighter than a regular Les Paul. I really like the single volume and tone controls.

2005 Ibanez Artist AR300---I bought this new at Shelby Music before I bought the Les Pauls. I was playing with a band down here at the time, and I needed something different for what we were playing, the Strat just wasn't fitting. This one worked out pretty good. Too bad the band didn't. I guess I, besides the Strat, wasn't fitting either. Being a Yankee, I might as well have been from Pakistan.

1993 Ibanez EX 370---I picked up this guitar online pretty cheap. It was covered in stickers, and in unplayable condition. It had a fret buzz, and whoever had it tried to do a setup on it, and had it all screwed up. One trip over to my local tech for a fret level job and a setup, and this is a great playing and screaming guitar.

2005 Wilson Brothers VM75---It's an official Ventures model, from a company owned by Don Wilson of the Ventures, what else is there to be said? I ordered this from Musician's Friend, without even playing it. I am not dissapointed, except the pickups are a little microphonic. I plan on finding a set out of a Mosrite to put in it.

1987 Squire Stratocaster---This is another Japanese made Squire that I bought new in 1987. I bought it at Bob's Amp Repair in Binghamton, NY, and it was my main guitar in Snake Creek for about 10 years.

1999 Fender Stratocaster---This is a midnight blue Mexican made Strat. I bought this one new at Hesse Music in Johnson City, NY. I walked in there one day, and the color just screamed out at me. I replaced the pickguard with a pearloid one, and it became my main guitar in Snake Creek until I left in 2004.

1991 Squire Stratocaster---This is a Korean made Squire. I can't even remember where I bought it, but I did buy it new. The first thing I did when I took it home was replace the crappy tuners with Grovers. It has the humbucker single single pickup configuration. The bridge and middle pickups blew out, and I replaced them with a Gibson humbucker and a Fender single. I mostly used this guitar tuned to open G for slide in Snake Creek.

2002 50th Anniversary Squire Stratocaster---I just picked this one up on the internet cheap. Don't know why I bought it, probably just because it is sunburst. It is Chinese, seems to play pretty well. Could use a setup. The price was right.

Terry Miller "Strat"---Let me tell you about this guitar! This was built by my good friend Terry Miller from Mehoopany, Pa. It is pretty much a one of a kind. It has a hard rock maple body, a Schaller 2 in 1 humbucker at the bridge, a Schaller single coil in the middle, and a Schaller Golden 50 humbucker in the neck position, with individual switching. This thing weighs about as much as a Les Paul, but man will it scream.

Yamaha Pacifica 312---I like these guitars. Randy Bachman played these for a while. I just picked this one and the one below up pretty cheap. It has a Seymour Duncan humbucker in the bridge position, gold hardware, and a pearloid pickguard. It is a very dark green color. Plays very well. It was also plastered with stickers when I got it. Kids....

Yamaha Pacifica 112---This is the cheaper version of the one above. The pickups are a little crappy, but otherwise a nice guitar. It had a minor wiring issue when I got it, somebody put in a new output jack, and wired it backwards, causing a hum.

1968 Fender Telecaster---This is one of my babys. I bought this guitar from my bandmate Pete Bomboy sometime in the early 90's for $150. He said I needed to have a Tele. He was right. This guitar is all original, except some tool had routed the neck position and put in a humbucker. Pete said he bought that guitar in 1971, and it was already like that. This guitar is supposed to have the "ashtray" bridge cover, but I never had it, nor do I care about it. I have since replaced the pickguard, and put a set of Fender noiseless Tele pickups in. I just filled in where it was routed in the neck position with some foam rubber for now. I still have the original bridge pickup and the original (routed) pickguard for it. I recently found an original 68 pickguard, and they wanted $750 for it! Screw that. I'd like to find the jerkoff that routed it and knock his ass out for being stupid.

2006 Fender Telecaster---My son bought me this guitar for Father's Day in 2006. It is black with a black pickguard, with Seymour Duncan pickups. Fender calls it the Light Ash Telecaster. I will cherish this one forever.

Samick Greg Bennett Design Malibu---I picked this up cheap on the internet. Something about it attracted me. The pickguard appears blue because some twit colored it with a marker. A standard Strat pickguard won't fit it, I wrote to Samick about a replacement, didn't hear from them. Also had a bunch of stickers on it. Not a bad guitar otherwise.

1966 Vox Bulldog---This is one of the Italian made Vox Mosrite knockoffs. 1966 was the only year they made this 3 pickup one, so they are kind of rare. All original with Kluson tuners, but there is supposed to be a string damper thing that goes on the bridge that is missing, and the tremolo arm is missing. I bought this around 93 or 94 at a yard sale in Pa. for 10 bucks from a friend of mine. It just needed strings. When I met Aerosmith in '94, I showed a picture of it to Joe Perry and the first thing he said was, "hey, it looks like a Mosrite doesn't it?" Then I showed it to Brad Whitford and he jokingly offered me 20 bucks for it, saying "see, you'd double your money on it!"

Jay Turser DC134 Vine---This is the only semi hollow body I have. I love this guitar. I got it at a pawn shop in Asheville, NC for a pretty good price. Took it to the tech for a setup, and it plays and sounds great. I believe this was one of the top of the line Jay Tursers. It has gold hardware, and a "vine" inlay up the neck. They are discontinued now. It's not really that old, probably early 2000's.

1970's Global Jazz Bass Copy---This bass was given to me by Dirk Marshall, my bandmate in Snake Creek, I think in the late 80's or early 90's. It is a pretty decent Fender Jazz Bass copy, in pretty good shape for what it is. The pickups suck, but otherwise pretty good. The bridge cover is missing, that's about it.

1979 Takamine F385 12 string---This guitar is known as the Martin lawsuit model. I am not sure of the date, but I believe it is late 70's. Takamine copied the Martin right down to the lettering style on the headstock, and got sued by C.F. Martin apparently. I have a Duncan Performer soundhole pickup in it. I bought this guitar in 1988 from a guy in Binghamton, NY for $60.

Epiphone 6832---I bought this guitar from an online auction. I was being competitive and pissy and probably paid too much for it. I don't want to talk about it. All I know about it is that it was made in Japan sometime between 1971 and 1983. It is in excellent shape, and doesn't look like it was played much.