Real Name:  paul gomes

Age:   59

Country/Location:  Traverse City , Mich

Gear:
1 Black 1983 MIJ Squier Bullet with gold lace sensors and a Fernandes Tele neck(my favorite guitar)

Gibson Les Paul Studio,
2005, Pretty flamey.
I rewired it and it sounds BOSS !



1-Fender/Fernandes "57" Stratocaster (homebrew replica), Black w/maple, Fernandes body, Seymour Duncan SSL-1 vintage PU set, reshaped Fender neck. A dead ringer from a few feet away. Naturally reliced(USE), Blender wiring.



1-Tokai body/MIM Fender deluxe Strat neck, Lake Placid Blue with Fender Texas Specials pickup set.

1- Hendrick's Generator, my personal Holy Grail guitar. Found a NOS body (made in Kalamazoo, MI by Heritage) and went from there. Less than 100 were made. Performance neck, Hipshot hardtail bridge, Seymour Duncan Vintage Tele at neck and a Gibson "57" humbucker at bridge.
Update; Finally tracked the designer down. I received a couple of emails from Kurt Hendrick after the recent article on him in Vintage Guitar Magazine about the guitar.

1 - custom made Mustang/Esquire/Strat hybrid, custom routed Warmouth Mustang body, 3 color sunburst, Fender reissue Tele bridge with SD vintage Tele pickup w/ unknown high quality neck. No switch, volume and tone controls only. It sounds incredible , Who needs more than 1 pickup !

Homemade 1952 Esquire clone,
2 piece swamp ash body, 98 MIM squire neck,a real flame job.
SD PU, Reissue Fender bridge, all slot head screws.

Home brew Tele,
Pine body, Allparts neck, Giovanni pickups, standard wiring, A nice tele , more mid-rangy than bright

La Cabronita clone I made.
Ash body, FAT Allparts maple neck, TV Jones Powertron PU = Awesome

1-Martin D-16, a very nice guitar


1972 Traynor Bassmaster Mark II
a true 8.5 out of 10 condition, incredible sounding
80-90 watts of pure mayhem

1-1969 Fender Bronco Amp
1-1970 Fender Vibro Champ
1-1968 Fender Champ
The above amps all in handmade solid tone wood cabinets.


4- Hand wired, PTP 10 watt amps made by a friend of mine one in an 8 " chassis and 1 in a 13" powered by 6BQ5 tubes with a triode to pentode switch. Very LOUD !
I also have , by the same builder a Tube Reverb unit, based on a "63" Fender unit.
2- 5 watt version of the above amp, also very loud. 1 with the triode to pentode switch

1 Crate 4 x 12 cabinet
1 1966 Fender Tremolux 2 x 10 cabinet
1 Old Hammond speaker cabinet w/ 12' Celestion speaker

1-1965 Gibson "white panel""Skylark" GA-5 with a 1964 ROLA alnico speaker, a Champ from the dark side.




1-Epiphone Studio 10 "pancake amp", my workbench amp

Plus assorted necks, bodies, parts and projects in the works.

Wish I had arms like Vishnu !





And could play better !

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How I found the FDP:  looking for info, got sucked in

Date registered:  Sep 8th, 2002

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