Get Your Cat Clothes On...

That's what Carl Perkins said one time. I am better able to say that myself with a recent customization to my DeArmond hollow body guitar that helps turn it into a powerful rockabilly/western machine.

A little history here, you may have seen this guitar pictured better on these pages in Mary's photo class pictures. She made it look like art. Guess I don't really know how to do that but as you see this Fender corporation instrument I have owned for about 10 years has had a Bigsby Vibrato added. It's the little handle device anchored just below the bridge. It's otherwise known as a "talent lever." I'm playing better already.

This instrument is a copy of what Guild guitars were like in the 1950s at the birth of rock and roll and modern country. Powerful DeArmatron pick ups make this baby howl and in addition to the cool warbling produced by the Bigsby I think the added mass of the base to the hollow top has projected a deeper sound.

Thanks to Kelly of Action Sound in Hawkins Texas for the modifications.

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