Koleksi Gua...

In the order of seniority, left to right: 1937 Gibson L-37, 1965 Martin D-18, 1966 Fender Stratocaster, 1981 Gibson Les Paul Custom...

Fetish Gear Post...

'95 Gibson ES-335 Tobacco Sunburst 'dot reissue' - with OHSC. Originally purchased from Big Bossu Guitars In Ochanomizu, Japan in 1999. Great P.A.F. tone (think Clapton on 'From The Craddle' sessions ... raw and loud!) Your best option is to crank it wide open through a Fender tube amplifier, a blackface one would be optimal.. :-)

Check out the flames... :-)
Nice on the back too... :-)

Natural relic on the nickel hardwares... they look just like old ones... Gibson got 'em right! both tonally and aesthetically... :-) P/S: Notice how the strings are strung ala Rev. B.F. Gibbons on the stop tail piece... For Gibson stop tail piece guitar owners, try it and you will not regret it! :-)

Regular witch hat volume and tone controls... :-)

This one says it all,... :-)

Well Well Well...

What have we here today... my my my... a beautiful 1966 Fender Stratocaster in what seems to be a faded 3 tone sunburst finish... I can't express my happiness more, not because it's my first Stratocaster or anything like that, but more for the fact that I got this beauty locally, yes you heard me right; IN the heart of KL!!! That's such important progress for a vintage guitar hunter like me. For years, I've not seen a Strat of this vintage surface up in the Klang Valley used market, and perhaps in many other parts of Malaysia as well, I'm glad though, that this is found, it indeed gives hope to me and others similar in nature for the quest for more nice vintage American guitars in this part of the world... Show me the Gibbys and the Marties mates!!!

Tonally, this is a monster SRV replicator... It's instant Stevie from the moment you plug into a Fender tube amp... Add in the TS-9, you get wailing and dirty drive from the setup... Also briefly tried it out wired in stereo with a Boss DM-3 analog delay... sounds identical to Andy Summers for a while there...I'm lost for words for the moment, but will write somemore once I recover from this euphoria I'm going through now, still (it's 12:26am)... Cheers, T

Some updates:

Managed to work a bit on the original finish last night... I successfully removed what seemed to be like shoe polish used to camouflage dings on the front and rear of the body. They were stubborn, took me like couple of hours to gradually remove them... The nitro coat on this Strat is so thin it makes you wonder sometimes if there's a layer of clear underneath it... I'll post more photos to prove this... shown above now... :-)