This is an attempt at getting a sort of butterscotch effect on my lovely old Tokai tele. The body was originally a bit battered, so I stripped it using a mouse sander and smoothed out any wrinkles. From my understanding, this model was built using Alder, so the grain is not that obvious. It still shows through nicely enough though.

I used a white tint and then a yellow tint (nitro based). Found it quite tricky to get an even coverage, but all in all it looks quite nice. Maybe a bit...

I've had my Strat Elite for around 15 years or so. I'm sure some know of this particular model. Fender only made them for a year or so in the early Eighties. It's was quite a radical and bold departure from the norm. Some great features, and some 'what the?' design decisions. There's very little info out there on the web about this model. Maybe Fender were embarrassed about it . At least they were prepared to try something new in those days. Now it seems they're perfectly happy to just sit back...

So what's this got to do with photography, I don't hear you ask .

Well, nothing really - but I'm currently listening to my new active nearfield A7's playing some music over wifi via my squeezebox and I finally feel I've found the perfect nearfield monitors. Brilliant dynamics, that unique Adam ribbon tweeter, and - very unusually - controls on the front of the monitor!



These are really transparent...