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August GiveAway The Wizard Overdrive from Olsson Amps

The Giveaway Contest for August in now running live on our Vintage & Rare Facebook page here.

So jump over on the thread – post a picture of your #1 go to guitar and tell us why you should be the winniner of the awesome Wizard Overdrive from Swedish builder, Olsson Amps. Worth 295€ / Approx. 331 USD.

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Tom Morello talks about why gear doesn´t matter

Red Bull Tv´s “Gearheads” recently released an interview with guitarist Tom Morello (RATM, Audioslave etc.) where he shares his perspectives around gear and why the gear itself does not matter at all. That debate is very old and we expect to see lots of comments on the perspectives raised by Tom Morello. Continue reading

Halkan´s Rockhouse Stockholm Guitar Shop Tour

Halkan´s Rockhouse is located in the heart of the beautiful swedish town, Stockholm. We recently went to visit Jan Hallquisth and his staff in his shop. Halkans Rock House is long time supporter of Vintage & Rare and is one of the very first shops to be on V&R. The shop has a great inventory with lots of vintage guitars, basses, amps and effects. They also do repairs. So if you are in the market of a fine vintage instrument, this is a shop to keep on your gear radar. Please see the shop tour vid and pics from that visit.

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Deimel Firestar Thomas Andersson Grøn Koncert 2016

Last year we did a custom order project with guitar player extraordinare, Thomas Andersson.

Thomas wanted something very unique with an offset twist. Therefore we put him in contact with german builders, Deimel Guitars.

Thomas ended up with a very cool – black sparkle 2 pickup Firestar.

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Dubré Guitars JMT Custom Thomas Andersson Grøn Koncert 2016

Guitar player extraordinaire, Thomas Andersson, contacted us before his summer tour 2016 with an interesting custom guitar project for this specific tour.

We met up with luthier Pierre Dubré aka Dubré Guitars and came up with a JM design based on Telecaster hardware specs with bindings. We named this specific guitar JMT Custom.

On the pics below you can see Thomas play the JMT Custom on Grøn Koncert 2016 with artist; Nik & Jay.

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Thomas Andersson Grøn Koncert Nik & Jay rig setup 2016

We have been working closely with guitar player, Thomas Andersson, throughout the years on different projects. Yesterday we had the opportunity to document Thomas´s live-rig that he set up for Grøn Koncert tour 2016. This was the last show of the tour with 40.000 people in the crowd. We are happy to be able to show you up close pics of this cool rig, built by Skrydstrup. See pics below. Continue reading

July FB Giveaway VuorenSaku Hand-Customed Instruments & Repairs

JULY GIVEAWAY running on Vintage & Rare´s facebook page
Jump over on our V&R FB page. Tell us why YOU should be the winner of our July 2016 Giveaway for a Telecaster pickup set from Vuorensaku – Hand-Customed Instruments & Repairs – worth 250 EUR / 278 USD.
This is a very special low out-put set from Vuorensaku El Kamiina series and is called “Half Kamiina”. Bridge pickups is true El Kamiina made with old military coil wire from 70’s (output: 2,9k) and neck pickup is made with normal 42AWG designed as a perfect pair for the Bridge one. (Output: 3,7k).”

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Dubré Guitars / JMT Custom / Thomas Andersson / Vintage & Rare

Guitarplayer and producer, Thomas Andersson, contacted us some months ago regarding him being in need of a black guitar for his upcoming summertour. Thomas and V&R has collaborated in guitar designs before and this time we came up with Jazzmaster / Offset design with Telecaster Custom features with gold hardware. The guitar was built in a tight collaboration with luthier Pierre from Dubré Guitars. A huge thanks to Dubré Guitars team for making this beautiful and cool guitar come to life. It was a great pleasure to work with Dubré Guitars and we highly recommend them as a partner for your future dream-guitar-build. This guitar is the first of a batch of 4, so if you are interested in owning one of these gems just let us know.

On the clips below you can hear Thomas play the guitar just moments after recieving the guitar for the first time.

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