Fender John Cruz Masterbuilt Jaguar Relic

Occasionally on my my travels around the Internet I come across a guitar that is so special it makes me do a little bit of a weep. One of my favourite haunts is Wildwood Guitars who are based in Louisville, Colorado who stock a hideous amount of Fender and Gibson Custom shop, so much so that they stock a model of Fender Custom Shop called the 'Wildwood 10' which you cannot buy anywhere else.

They lovingly update their website daily with glorious high resolution photos of their new arrivals and this Fender Custom Shop Jaguar Relic which arrived today is a very special guitar indeed. It's special because it epitomises everything a custom shop guitar should be, it's been masterbuilt by one of my favourite Luthiers, John Cruz (I've been lucky enough to play a couple of his stunning guitars before), it features a super spec but with subtle differences from your run of the mill custom guitar. The mould has been smashed with its hybrid Jaguar shape and '52 Tele spec, the finish and the relic work is stunning and the bigsby for me is the icing on the cake. If you've got a spare $5299.00 then I wouldn't hesitate to jump on this, if you haven't then you can only do the best that I can do, sit in front of your flickering monitor crying softly. Someone pass the Kleenex...

Orange Amps to start producing personal computers.

Those boffins at Orange have done it again. Not content with making quite frankly, some of the best guitar and bass amplifiers on the market today they have now announced that they will be launching their first Windows based PC in June.

The legendary London amplifier manufacturers have founded a subsidiary company called OMEC Personal Computers Ltd and will be fusing a PC that boasts... well, who cares WHEN YOU HAVE A COMPUTER THAT YOU CAN PLUG YOUR GUITAR INTO AND ROCK OUT. Just think of it, you're playing unreal tournament and you just frag some asshole that's been camping with a rocket launcher for four hours and as your screen is filled with a shower of his or her gibbed remains you whip out your favourite rock pig and bust out a sick-ass solo which you'll probably upload to youtube. Awesome.

Seriously though Orange have stated that the specs of the first machine will be as follows; 4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, Intel chips, Windows 7 x64 home premium, 8 x USB2.0 ports, is Wi-Fi enabled and has an integrated GeForce 9300 graphics card with an optional dedicated ATI 5670 512MB card for those who may want to play a few games while they put their guitars down. The best thing about this is that it looks like the guitar input will allow you to record straight to your computer and there is going to be recording and amp modelling software pre installed on the machine.

I'll post more news on this as I hear it, exciting times.