CRASH COURSE
Further to the David Gilmour tribute Strat letter sent in by Dave Whitlam in issue 485, I too had the idea of putting together a tribute guitar to one of my playing heroes. I had always loved the ‘Crash-3’ Strat [painted by artist John ‘Crash’ Matos] that Eric Clapton played for a while – but couldn’t find anything out there that came close. Luckily for me, I had a luthier friend who built me a body from scratch as I wanted the battery box to be in the back and a Gibson-scale neck, as I find those more comfortable to play.
I was also very fortunate to find Ronnie Hanson of the Guitar Boutique, prior to his sad passing. He was so generous with his time and I had a couple of lovely phone calls with him before and during the time the guitar body was
