Searching For The One One

I've been thinking about this for quite a while, and as a premier builder of individualistically beautifilled guitars (ahem), I thought it was about time that I created a signature guitar - you know, came up with a guitar that somebody superbly fameified plays publicly that everybody else points at and sort of says 'Wow, if he plays one of them there Jooky guitars, then they must be truly cool and I should play one too'. Leading to queues of people wanting to buy sweatshop build 'replicas' and multimillionaire status.

Obviously that isn't what I want though.

Instead, I thought it would be a lot cooler to make a signature guitar for somebody who isn't a household name. In fact, for somebody that I, at least, haven't heard of.

Don't get me wrong I would like to make one for somebody who plays in a band and does a decent amount of gigs each year and doesn't mind being seen in public clutching one of my babies, but I won't be paying them and as it will be the only one I'll ever make, there won't be royalties either. So basically, they will get a free guitar and that is that.

It will however be fun, I hope, and there we are. Oh, they will have to appear on this blog/web site here and there too.

But how to pick this personage? Well, I guess I could have a competition, that would make sense, and it should probably be on line. Maybe I'll do that - people could tell me in thirty words why they should be 'the one'. Or better still, maybe they should describe the guitar (at least that way I can work out if it is something I can build... la la).

Anyway, that is the plan - our first and probably only signature player, the one one.

Coming soon, when I get around to it.