Les Robot…LMG T -B
May 13th, 2010
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LMG with Slash on the George Lopez show.
April 9th, 2010
Bobby Schneck, right stage of Slash playing our LMG T with our custom Seymour Duncan lil 59′s. Sounds great….
Redd Volkaert playing sweet on our guitar
March 23rd, 2010
My first sale on the steps of a Gulfstream IV
January 26th, 2010
One of the coolest things just happened.
A guy phones me from the air, says he will be Vancouver at 3, can I meet him with some of our guitars. “Ya, for sure”. So I go out to the private jet airport and wait. That in itself is kinda cool
And then this beautiful bright white jet comes honking in, comes to a rocking stop. He waves at me from the cockpit of a Gulfstream IV, the door drops down, he comes bounding down off the jet, comes into the terminal where I have our guitars laid out.
He looks at the guitars and goes “Whoa, those are ridiculously cool” Plays them for a bit and says “right on”
Then he pulls out a wad of 100s “I’ll take em” he says “what do ya need?”
The builder of fine guitars gets up on stage
January 3rd, 2010
Here are some pics of main machine master Bernie getting up on stage with the LMG Bulls Eye T.
This was great! The Railway Club in Vancouver is a singer/song writer/altnerative place. You know, the kinda of place where the songs are peaceful and questioning and quiet and sad and soft and and….relaxing.
Well, this band, Neverready, is kick your ass in your face metal… and I thought to myself… Yikes , this is gonna be a collision of cultures. But damn, they were so good at what they did that they won over the crowd. Great beats had a few of the hippies doing some head tossing lol It was great.
Bernie came up after and said. ” Gee, I have never played the amp at 1 before” (100 watt stack )
On Stage at the Railway.
On stage at the Railway Club
On stage at the Railway Club
Bulls Eye T waiting for its magic.
Bernie Day time job... a batch of hardtails ready for clear coat
the collector of fine guitars.. picks out a 18k gold tele.
December 31st, 2009
I love what I do.. absolutely love it.
Yesterday a pretty well known collector phoned me up and said he was in town and would I have some time to meet with him and chat.
Hmmm, let me think?
Ah sure… lol
Anyways, I went and met him, nice guy, knows his guitars and equipment , wildly well.
It was great talking to him for knowledge, folk lore, stories about guitars, guitar companies. We talked for hours and spent a long time talking about Veleno and the stories about these guitars that came out in the 70′s.
I have talked about it before in the blog because it is was Veleno’s success that really caught my interest and prompted me to push LMG into existance. I like that he went to shows and nighclubs and showed the guitar off and people bought them. That he did something cool and that folks appreciated what we was up to.
From Vintage Guitar Magazine:
Veleno’s first sale came shortly thereafter, as he polished the guitar at a T-Rex sound check. Mark Bolen walked over and fell in love with the guitar. Before the night was over, he’d bought one for himself and one as a gift for Eric Clapton (who Veleno had never heard of!).
I know who Clapton.
The reason the collector wanted to meet, is that he wanted know if I could build him a gold LMG T, similar to the gold veleno that was on an old Johnny Winter Album. He has other nice finishing requests and was adamant that he gets # 0001 of the 18k Gold Tele.
He was so excited that I would do it, he really was, totally dig that.
and for me, it was a great way to start a new year.
Happy New Year All….
Black Shot Head Stock – hot off the press..
December 19th, 2009
We just finished the assembly of our new look T’s. I like this option, gets us us back to our black and chrome. The logo on the headstock is chrome. It also makes the metal body jump too.
Here is a quick pic before they are packed up and shipped all around the world.. Holland, England and Virginia.
Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pick Ups in our guitars.
December 15th, 2009
I talked a while back about our guitar being taken up to Seymour by a friend and how Seymour was intrigued by what we are doing. So intrigued that he set about matching a pick up set to the unique characteristics of our guitar.
Well, yesterday we got our first bulk shipment of them, all hand wound in the custom shop and now those are going into the guitars that are about to be shipped. For us it is a great collaboration.
What he did was to make the sound of our LMG “T” better. We have a clearer, cleaner tele sound out of the bridge pickup. He didn’t deviate from the traditional sound, it is not something that you have to get used to, but rather totally enhanced what we have all come to know as the tele sound.
The bridge pick ups are made with 1/4 lb magnents and wrapped to a hot 15,5k. I know, it is hot and that is what Seymour found out too, that the characteristics of the guitar allow for a hotter pick up to deliver a cleaner sound.
I like that we have an old school tele player making our guitars, as good as they can be.
The magic of serendipity
December 7th, 2009
We just finished the clear coat baking of our latest batch of LMG T, the hard tails. We do it the same way a car has the paint applied and then baked on, then polished. The look of them, finished, is so incredibly cool to me still, I just can’t get over it, I love it. With the process we do, the way we machine the surface of the guitar’s body and the way the thick clear coat goes on to totally enhance the look, simply blows me away how it came about.
The machining look we use now came about as an accident. We usually skim the surface of the aluminum before we set to do the hard cutting, just to get the oxidation or bumps and scrapes removed. One day, when we were doing this and the cutting bit we were using had snapped one of the biting edges off, it was just a tiny break. The cnc machine travelled the whole way up the length of the body and ripped these swirly into the metal…
We panicked, “shit..its wrecked it” and then we all stopped and looked at each other and simultaneously smiled and said..
“whoa, that looks very cool, that’s the look we have been looking for”
And it was.
The other thing that happened, is I was put on hold with a paint company down on the heartland that we had been using. I needed some tolerance info, something like that, but I was on hold for 72 hours, well okay not that long, but then a real person comes on, tells me I have the wrong department and he will transfer me, but the result is, I get disconnected.
I tried them again about five times, same result and out of sheer frustration, I phoned up the local paint retailer, rail away with my story and he says ” that is exactly why we aren’t distributing them anymore” he asks what I need and I tell him and he says ” you have to talk to this guy, is a instructor in auto/motorcycle painting and plays guitar.”
Immediately I call the guitar playing instructor in auto/motorcycle painting guy, tell him what we are up to and he gets so he so fired up he is beside himself and tells me that he has just this moment perfected a process that will enhance the look of etched or sculpted metal as well as protecting the surface….that would be perfect for what we are doing.
and when we did it, damn he was right, it did…
Two things that happened that have made what we do…better.
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