Another guitar?
Why have I decided to build another instrument? Glutton for punishment? Guitar masochist? Lockdown crazy? To be honest, not even the latter, though building my first guitar did fit in very conveniently with the completion of my latest novel, Easbury Green – my usual way of enjoying my retirement - details on Amazon. That was during the pre-Christmas lockdown. That instrument's now complete and the mistakes I made in my first attempt have been rectified; good quality strings have been put on and the guitar's been properly intonated. Referred within the family as my 'PH guitar' (from my signature applied clearly on the headstock to avoid any charge that I'm trying to pass it off as a Paul Reed Smith instrument), I now enjoy playing it regularly. Quite apart from the novelty ie newness, it's quicker to pick up than my Gibson, Gretsch or Martin, all of which are in cases. So what did I choose? I thought about a Strat-type model but there really are so many of those