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Ash

You dream it, I make it. Do it... you know you want to.

About Me

I am Adrian. Guitar design, guitar building and guitar mutilation is my game. Occasionally interrupted by repair, restoration, and a bit of training for the luthiery impaired.I pretty much live, eat, sleep and breathe guitar building. If you have a guitar in your brain that you'd like to get out into the 3D world, I can probably make that happen for you. No, wait... if you can pay for it, I CAN make it happen.
I do other interesting things too. Seriously. Interesting and cool stuff. Lots of it.

Custom electric guitars handmade in New Zealand

My Interests

Anything with guitars. Control-line aeromodels are lots of fun. Honda NSRs light my fire. Learning new and useless things is what keeps me up at night.

I'd like to meet:

Guitar and bass players with imagination. The ones who can think a little outside the box prescribed by dull old guitar magazines.Actually, anyone with imagination would be interesting. Imagination and a willingness to discover, learn and be amazed by what the world has to offer.

Music:

Led Zep, Jethro Tull, Sade, '80s new wave/pop, Crowded House, Th' Dudes, Fleetwood Mac, Style Council, Level 42, Old Shihad... Also LOVING each opportunity to see friends' and customers' bands play live... see some in my friends list.

Television:

Prison Break, Stargate SG1, Knight Rider, MacGyver (ah, the nostalgia!), ALT TV when they play old, odd, unexpected stuff...

Books:

Fiction is for people with no imagination ;) I like to read about things that are real/true/factual etc. History, technology etc.

My Blog

Metal Weapon: Devil Beast.

That's right... its the Devil Beast. At least that is what I have been calling it lately. A long, long time in the making, but the effort expended shows in that it is one of the most perfect guitars...
Posted by Ash on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:27:00 PST

UberWagen

Yay for me, I finally have a respectable car. It was still made in Australia, so as respectable as an Aussie wagon gets, I suppose. Its pretty clean and comfortable and drives like a Grandad car shou...
Posted by Ash on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:33:00 PST

Got Rosewood?

Neither do I, really. They call it rosewood down at the timber yard, but they're a bunch of lying scumbags and it is really only a cousin of genuine Dalbergia rosewood at best. Despite that, Pterocarp...
Posted by Ash on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:27:00 PST

Bling Blang up the Fling Flang.

Its shiny. And bassy. And Icey. Another case of discovering a whole set of parts with a common purpose and no home to go to. One day a little while ago, I could resist the urge no longer. I decided to...
Posted by Ash on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:02:00 PST

Splatoblaster Part Deux

Time to cross one off the Wishlist... This strat started with the intent to build a strat to embarass ordinary strats with its mightiness. Then one day I realised a had an ordinary strat's worth of sp...
Posted by Ash on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:20:00 PST

Splatoblaster

Here's the latest hostage to be released. Lyle ( http://www.myspace.com/zosolyle  ) likes a bit of EVH and a bit of Page amost other things. And he couldn't find what he was looking for in a...
Posted by Ash on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:37:00 PST

Got wood?

I know I did. Yesterday Kristie and I went wood shopping for a nice peice of Kauri to use on her guitar building course project (linked in an earlier episode). We found a nice quartersawn peice, which...
Posted by Ash on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:13:00 PST

Sickening.

You know how there are things that are merely...."ok"? And then you put them together with other "ok" things and get something that is just mind-blowing? Like a jar of peanut butter and a ballet dance...
Posted by Ash on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:17:00 PST

The '07 Wishlist

I mentioned the 'Wishlist' in the last blog-o-spam... These are the projects I dream up when I should be doing something more important and spend a couple of weekends on before realising I have paying...
Posted by Ash on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:11:00 PST

Book Now!! (if you know whats good for you)

I just took another confirmed and paid up booking in the custom guitar queue today. Another repeat customer too. That takes care of the April start slot for this year already. I'm running a new build ...
Posted by Ash on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:39:00 PST