Bought & Sold
What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money?
“Let’s see… probably my SG. I have a 2004 ’61 reissue that I bought a couple of years ago. A couple of years before that I actually built my own Strat. So it would be one of those two – probably the Strat because that one was more of a labour-intensive thing.
“I bought the parts individually and a local luthier helped me put it together. It had a left-handed neck and a sunburst body that I got on the internet, and then I got a custom pickguard from Warmoth. Originally, it had two Firebird pickups and then eventually I took those pickups out to
