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RESTORATION CHOICE

you missed last issue’s The Mod Squad, I’ve been restoring a guitar designed by the late luthier Sid Poole, who passed away just over 20 years ago. This model was played by a good mate of mine for many years, Jim Matthews, who we tragically lost at the end of 2020. It’s beginning to sound like an episode of … The guitar on the bench is a prototype Westone Corsair Classic, designed – as I explained in our previous issue – by Sid and myself back in 1996 and ’97 and made to a very high standard by Rob Green at

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