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Hi – I’m Edward… and I love all things art and music. I started playing guitar in 1987! I started 101Networks and Fusion101<\/a> LTD and 101Guitars.com<\/a> in 2000 when I and customised (all be it quite simply:) my first guitar!<\/p>\n

Being both a guitar player and an artist, and then working for some years (about 14) as an illustrator\/art-worker\/graphic designer for\u00a0 – I always imagined someday I would get time to start customising my own guitars in terms of parts, playability and feel – but specially interesting to me – creating custom guitars in terms of the way they looked.<\/p>\n

In the beginning the guitar ‘gods’ made Jimi Hendrix…<\/h4>\n

\"\"In the beginning the guitar-gods made Jimi Hendrix<\/em> – another guitar player who was interested in the aesthetic look and feel of his guitars and was well-known for getting out his paint-brushes (actually I believe Jimi Hendrix used nail-polish to paint his guitars!) to produce some iconic custom-painted guitars which are now re-created by guitar companies and sold for $1000’s! Hendrix interesting was a pretty good artist himself – just take a look at his doodles as a kid – you can see what his mind was like and how it morphed into the creative musical gems we now have – beautiful in their melody – story-telling and simplicity and yet hard to recreate as he was a true improvisor and unafraid of making mistakes as it was all new ground.<\/p>\n

\"\"Then of course we guitarists of the heavier<\/em> persuasion have all heard and seen the master of tap and feel in my book – Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Frankinstrat<\/em>‘ – a home-made guitar literally thrown together from old and not particularity good quality guitar parts (a rejected body or neck I can’t remember) – but that with a little loving care and a careful setup – and of course magic-fingers<\/em> and ooooodles of talent – he made sound like nothing this planet or any alien had ever hard!<\/p>\n

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In the year 2000 I got the millennium bug to start altering the look of my guitars – a bit of a battered mess now and some of the sparkly sequins have been knocked off but this was my first attempt at customising the look of a guitar. Not bad for a few quid!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I know that guitars are something very personal and unique to each owner and player – but have never been too fussed about perfection when it comes to finish (though I’m not denigrating it – a well guitar can be a work of art in itself) – but personally I’m much more interested in guitars that tell a story – or that have some history – or that are unique in design, features or decor! If it’s a bit beaten up or battered who cares? And oddly ‘relics’ – guitars actually made to look old and worn and loved has become quite an industry in itself!<\/p>\n

Anyhow – sometime in 1999 I got involved in a covers group that did various local events like weddings, parties, pub dos and even a few larger gigs – end-of year Christmas company parties and so on. It had an Elvis twist (I’ve always been a huge fan of him and James Burton amongst other players) and it was while in that band I thought I needed a guitar to match.<\/p>\n

Looking no further than Elvis’ incredible jumpsuits I set about recreating one of his jumpsuits on my trusty old Japanese Fender Stratocaster.<\/p>\n

\"\"A little while later I saw in some guitar magazine an amazing Fender guitar detailed and customised to with Harley Davidson look and was blown away not only by it’s appearance but it’s price – a cool $20,000! Surely I could make something like that if I ever had the time for a fraction of the cost? Maybe.<\/p>\n

So a few years went by while I was bogged down in another project and still no more custom guitars – that was until 2018 – when I threw together my own ‘Harley Davidson’ jazz bass starting with my trusty old Toakai I’d had lying around for a5 years and bough from a fellow called Mike. Whilst it was no masterpiece I was very pleased with it and since it played so well anyway am now super-fond of it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Finally it was in 2020 that I got a breather from my day-job and picked up a few guitars to do a semi-touring gig which for some reason never transpired. so I took these guitars one day and unconcerned about ruining a super-valuable vintage Fender happily began to play about with them using anything and everything I had in my paintbox. Ta-da! you can see the result below – boy was I chuffed with this. Not only do these guitars look cool and inspire me every time I look at them – they play well too as I’ve had many years experience at setting up actions and intonations.<\/p>\n

I always wanted a ‘blog\/magazine’ website called 101Guitars, but recently it occurred to me – how about building a website dedicated to bringing together all the custom painted guitars and guitar-makers I can find? Hey presto<\/em> – 101Guitars website was born!<\/p>\n

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