2025 - Hardly any hope!

73 – Damn!

Damn, I'll be turning 73 in June this year. It's a rather uneasy feeling, you're in a constant state of anxiety that something might happen to your health. Well, of course, at 20, you could just as easily be walking out of the house and a roof tile could fall on your head.

Les Paul & Tele - Bender

See you soon in Los Angeles at NAMM!

Trans Tremola

This tremolo now finally works extremely well over three semitones using string sets 010 to 046!

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Les Trem on Dean Zelinsky!

göldo SL-Tuner

It's about time! Design, refinements, technology: here they are, our brand new, half-open, very own SL tuners. We hope they cause a stir at NAMM in Los Angeles in January!

A nice new arrival!

Delicate fragments of a 1962 Wandré Rock Bass. No frets, no binding, no bridge. But I'll get it back in shape, because it's the only model I'm missing in my collection. The body is made of padauk, the African hardwood that companies like Schecter didn't start using for Strat and Tele bodies until 20 years later. Mr. Pioli was always ahead of his time!

Marco Ballestri describes in his book about Wandré that Mr. Pioli was inspired to create this body shape when he observed his urine (very medically expressed!) for a while while peeing, as it passed the toilet seat and dripped into the toilet bowl.