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ABOUT US
April 2007
This month the web site has been redesigned and updated.
There are many new products on the site including some classic guitars for sale. There is also another review in the May edition of Guitarist (hits the shops in mid April). A sample sound file for my Techno lo fi pedal, which is a fuzzbox with two powerful voicing filters, will be on the Guitarist CD.
A new feature on the web site is Alan’s Hot Tips, where you can find some tips and quick fixes for the guitarist. This section will be updated on a regular basis and eventually I’ll have a manual with 30 years of guitar tech and music experience repairing and working on guitars and equipment for Robert Plant, Bert Jansch, Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, The Darkness and many more big names.
This month also sees the launch of the Ampico range of booster pedals.
Cheers, Alan.
A brief history…
At the age of 13 I bought my first electric guitar, but I couldn't afford an amplifier at the time so I used to put it through a radio with the selector switch on 'gram'. I was absolutely fascinated by the workings and quickly began experimenting. As a kid I was always messing about with radio circuits, so I had a good background in electronics and it wasn't long before I was making my own fuzz circuits, tremolos and so on.
When I left school I went through a number of jobs, mainly in electronics and engineering and eventually landed a job with the legendary John Birch Guitar Company in Rubery. I was a general all rounder and got a wide range of knowledge on repairing and making guitars. I eventually ended up on the refinishing. While there I worked on many guitars belonging to the 'rich and famous' - Toni Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Slade, The Move, and most of the best known bands in the 70's, including the manufacture of the famous 'Heart Guitar' for Mud.
The individuality of the guitars of the 50's, 60's & 70's, has always amazed me. There were some great designs especially from Europe, in particular the Italian designs, with their sparkle finishes and with hardware I think sometimes looked as if it had come off motor scooters! Hofner also made some great looking instruments - loose copies of Fender and Gibson: for instance the violin bass was a copy of a Gibson solid body that never caught on, while the Hofner version rose to fame with the Beatles.
After leaving Mr.Birch's employ I moved on to other things, but still made and repaired guitars and effects units for myself. Eventually I set up my own company carrying out guitar repairs, restoration of guitars and designing and building electronic circuits. I set up the Live~wire Electronics Co. concentrating on Tone circuits and now have Burford Electronics, a boutique pedal range of effects all with a slight ‘twist’ on the standard sounds at affordable prices.
I have always been approached by people needing guitar parts and repro parts because the shops have told them aren't made anymore, or they're only interested in selling them a new guitar, or tell them they'll be in next week, week after week, when they haven't even ordered them at all, hoping the customer will go away. So I decided to set up a web site to do my best in re-sourcing parts, even manufacture of pick guards, tone circuits, fuzz circuits and anything else I can help you with.
All the best,
ALAN
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