2021 - A strange year!

A great year!

The Falken

Wow, at the beginning of the new Corona-year a whole new Duesenberg design. "Reverse", with two Split Kings and the two Split switches adjustable in height!

ANDERTONS, UK

In addition and to all new Duesenberg models a fantastic feature of the Andertons. Brexit or no Brexit, these guys have got it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIgAGT8uWIg

Here in honor of Mr. Wandré "The Scarabeo" - an elaborate one-off!

Here an original:

More Super Fly

Pole-peace

ClipHaus is back!

German vintage! This design goes back to a mechanism made by ROKO (Robert Kolb) in the 60s. What looks like a roof at the top is a clip made of spring steel, which presses the worm shaft against the gear wheel, resulting in a completely backlash-free movement. However, the old ROKO machine heads, which were used by many guitar manufacturers such as Gretsch, Guild, Höfner, Framus, etc., were much clunkier and also did not have this lining on the clip. Also, our tuners use my old "push-through" patent, which means the strings are put through the shaft from the top and can then be clipped off the back. Very convenient and it saves and bloody fingertips and string ends wobbling around on the headstock!
Yup, now the new tools are ready. These fantastic tuners will now soon go back into production!

Johnny Depp

Jesus, how cool sings our Johnny! An incredible video of the Hollywood Vampires. It gets under your skin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8VnYZLWr_s

Wandrella Tailpiece

A beautiful, delicate tailpiece for jazz guitars etc., inspired by Mr. Antonio Pioli "Wandré".

The life insurance for every guitar - the new Duesenberg Drop Stop System!

Meiomei, completely forgotten - already from the year 2017! Drop Stop: Via a mechanism, the Drop Stops screwed to the strap hook onto the strap pins of the instrument and are fixed there. This permanently protects the strap from slipping and the instrument from fatal falls, and even during the wildest stage show the baby remains safe. Unlike other systems, the Drop Stops can be used comfortably even with straps with narrow holes thanks to a smaller diameter.

The Drop Stop system is compatible with Duesenberg strap pins without modification. For all other instruments, two matching strap pins including wood screws are included. 
So a set consists of two Duesenberg Drop Stop, two compatible strap pins, two wood screws.

Gold & Silverfoil pickups

Humbucker dimensions and the ingenious inner workings of the Davoli/ Wandré Originator pickups. Incredibly brilliant and open sound!

Carlos Raya, playing a Super Fly

Raimundo Amador featuring the Out Of Phase sound of Super Fly

The Electric Alley

Meiomei, in my old age and in Cádiz, the city of flamenco and carnival, I had to discover this awesome band by chance. 5 young guys who make really official and absolutely authentic hard rock, reminiscent of Black Crowes, AC/DC, Free, Bad Company etc.. Yes, rock is finally on the rise again! And listen to this singer Jaime (James) Moreno! It doesn't get much better than that! No AC/DC singer has ever sung so awesome! This is international high class!

                            Sergio                        Jaime                Rafa                Nando                Fran

These guys have a rehearsal room in the old industrial zone, rumbly driveway alleys where you indulge in music past garages and small businesses at the very end. There's even a huge Rolling Stones poster emblazoned on the wall at the top of the alley. And across the alley lives Yowy, an older gentleman and fan who constantly supports the guys and occasionally serves them a great seafood dinner.


This is a band that deserves the greatest success! To try one more ...

The two "heads" of the band: Jaime Moreno and Nando Perfumo

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSulvnYtiX4

My hardware museum ...


Messi goes!

What a jerk! This guy has so much money that he could spend only a fraction of it in his whole life. Yet he could have easily offered to play for FC Barcelona for a year or more for free. And they would have canonized him for it, at least godlike! But nowadays only the money counts and nothing else, no decency, no morals, only laboriously squeezed out crocodile tears. What a ridiculous farce!

Oh, and Dusty Hill is also no longer with us ...

Oh dear, that was in August 2003 - ZZ Top in Hannover!

And also extremely sad: At the end of August our beloved and highly respected Charlie Watts left us ...

An Outlaw, also signed by him, has remained with us!

Wandré Rock'n'Roll Bass

A basement find in Cologne, pretty sure one of the rarest Wandré basses in this world, especially since in multi-color paint!

And here the current state of my collection ...

Wandré Bridge

If you can't resist taking a Wandré guitar apart, you'll always discover new details. It's quite ingenious how the Italian allows the octave adjustment by means of knurled wheels!

But if you have lost these bridge saddles (left), you are pretty screwed. Because you can't buy them again! What to do? Make them yourself and possibly even better (right).
The strings come from the tailpiece and run through the octave adjustment thread (M6) forward to their support point. To do this, the good Pioli - or whoever did it - slit open these M6 threads. My much simpler solution: Drill a central hole of 2.5mm diameter in the M6 thread, which comes out at the front of the saddle.

Ah, Los Rollings!

What they call the Rolling Stones in Spain! And aren't they sweet with us?! Announcing the continuation of their US tour and putting our pink-pink Paloma in the picture, which we once produced as part of the "Fight Breast Cancer" project. And at the bottom right still one of our magnet-fixed ashtrays, which I once made for them years ago to suck the cigarette smoke away from Charlie Watts, who unfortunately doesn't need it anymore. What wonderful and brilliant gratitude! I think this guitar is still to be auctioned off at some point and will certainly bring in proceeds of over € 100,000 again.

And another from Ronnie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE6x3ZnlnRw

The holy three kings

Wow, a creation of Martin Huch, namely a Starplayer with the stars Ron Wood, Keith Richards and Bob Dylan as a present for Wolfgang Niedecken on his 70th birthday. Wolfgang was very pleased!

And the story is quite simple: Wolfgang had seen the Live Aid gig of the three birds back then and was as amused as we all were. Thereupon he christened them "The holy three kings".
(As is well known, the -alleged- grave of the real three kings is in Cologne Cathedral). Since that time there is the BAP altar, where before each concert with a delicious grappa the 3 kings are paid homage to...

Wandré madnes

Some people could already get the idea that I am totally crazy. I finally have this wonderful collection of guitars by Signore Antonio Pioli Wandré, whom I totally admire for his creativity and all his innovations. I could be happy with it, but unfortunately every Wandré guitar also has some serious drawbacks that make it difficult to handle perfectly. Buddy Miller seems to be the only one who can handle it without any problems.

In any case, certain details suddenly tickle me: Especially the models Waid, Rock Oval and Selen have this pickguard with integrated bridge including these crazy single riders, where the strings are pulled through the octave adjustment thread. Ingenious, but completely over-engineered, and this pickguard has a crucial disadvantage: the bridge pickup is much too close to the bridge and therefore sounds very garish. And you can never get the original pickup close enough to the strings, so it not only sounds too garish, but also has a weaker output compared to the neck pickup. In order to rectify this as well, I already redesigned the pickup cap years ago in a higher version including height adjustment.

And also the outer outline of the pickguard could do with a little redesign to look a bit more dynamic. A malicious acquaintance once told me that this part would somehow remind him of a kind of 50s kitchen tool for planing or rasping.

Now there is 3D printing, which makes it possible to create any plastic part of any shape. You just need a so called STP file to feed the printer.

I do all my designs in Photoshop, because so far I had neither the desire nor the time to get a more modern, extensive drawing program. For parts like pickguards that are lasered, I give that to Toño, our ex-Dooros bassist, who is a graphic artist and converts the Photoshop file or the PDF generated from it into an Adobe Illustrator file for me. I then send that to a laser company who lasers it out of aluminum, stainless steel or brass with extreme precision. I also have another guy in Madrid, José (nicknamed "José Three-D"), who creates three-dimensional data sets for me from my artwork.

So I didn't get lazy (and Corona gives you time!), I worked on the Wandré pickguard, moved the pickup a bit towards the neck to an optimal Duesenberg position, came up with another, more workable bridge design, dynamized the outer shape more elegantly for my taste, and changed other fine details. José did it and printed it out himself with a rather cheap printer. It should have taken about 8 hours and the surfaces were a bit rippled due to this manufacturing process, but it didn't look bad at all. See for yourself.

But what do I do with it now in terms of our company? A new model in this style?