Last night I met with two Davaoeño guitar players to plan the formation of a group for guitarists in Davao City. Dante Arevalo is the guitarist of Punch 9, the band that represented Davao City in last year’s Global Battle of the Bands (Philippine finals) while George Tujan is the guitarist of 9Volt Lemonade. The [...]
Here’s a closer view of the Hofner Verithin that I am restoring. Notice that it has no hardware whatsoever, and that the marker in the fifth fret is missing one strip. The letter “N” is missing in the mother-of-pearl HOFNER at the headstock, and the binding in part of it, as well as in the [...]
As I said in a previous entry, I found a Hofner Verithin and am in the process of restoring it. A friend of mine, Sean, brought in a set of tuning keys and an archtop bridge from the US, so I’m a few weeks away from completing this project. A previous photo I posted wasn’t [...]
I was in Manila for a few days and visited Tiendesitas, a sprawling area filled with small stores, kind of like a high-end tiangge. I walked into the antiques section and there, sitting in a corner inside one of the stores, was this gorgeous Yamaha hollowbody electric guitar. I don’t know what model it was, [...]
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