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NCG Guitars at Gardiner Houlgate Guitar Auctions

There are various musical instrument auctions around the country but the best by far, in my opinion, is at Gardiner Houlgate. They hold quarterly sales and have a vast knowledge of guitars – so you get exactly what is described – not always the case with other venues. It is...

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Drifter White | NCG

NCG Guitars

We have some very talented luthiers building guitars. However, it often seems to be an exercise in assembling expensive exotic wood, probably better suited to a fruit bowl or a wall-hanger instrument. There are many top-quality custom-built Teles, Strats and other generic models produced – but I really do not...

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All in the fingers

Don’t Believe a Word

Electric guitar tone wood – a myth, complete tosh. Believed by those who have bought in to it, probably at great expense. Bit of a sweeping statement. An electric guitar works on basic electro-magnetic principals, school boy physics. No amount of vibrating wood is going to add anything positive to...

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God Save the Queen

God Save the Queen

The nights are drawing in, needs must, I chuck another guitar on the fire, determined not to cave in and spark up the malevolent cash-guzzling gas boiler. Time marches on, life, and I notice it is now harder to read by candlelight, the old mincers not so good as they...

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NCG Neck Plates | Nottingham City Guitars

Neck Plates

This one should be short and sweet. Nothing simpler than fitting a four bolt neck plate – is there? Well for starters they are not bolts, just good old wood screws. Usually, counter sunk raised head Philips or Pozi-Drive screws. Some necks have three screws and some like the much...

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Police and Thieves

Police and Thieves

COP 26 has rumbled on, under intense public scrutiny, now drawing to an impotent close. I bet you don’t know what COP stands for. I looked it up. The great and the good and the not so great and the downright corrupt and greedy, those who couldn’t give a fuck....

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The trail of the lonesome pine

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

They say plant a tree to save the planet. Fuck that, have you seen what they do? Look at Greece, California, Siberia, Australia – Mental. All burning. Fucking dangerous things trees. Chop them all down and make loads of bog paper and guitars I say. Something we really need. When...

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Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Another gorgeous day dawns in lockdown, early morning frost blooming on the lawn, driven back idly by the rising sun. Blue skies. Promise of a good day. Bird song, blossom on the hoary trees, dripping in the thaw. Stay indoors you fucker or you’ll catch it and die. Nature’s toying...