We have set up a twitter account (link here to that account) and as I find people to follow I am coming across some great guitar resources. Here are a couple of the recent ones:

300guitars.com

A series of video clips related (mostly) to guitar maintenance can be found here. Sample one from Billy Penn below - how to re-strong a Fender guitar.

TheGuitarSherpa

This one tries to aggregate information and links on various guitar resources - follow this link.

keith

We had the same logo for ages - the one underneath this paragraph which did nicely while we prepared to raise our initial funding and start the development of the service.

Our new logo was done by Matt Dempsey - the designer who is also working on V1 of the dbTwang service. Here it is - less colour and more guitar related details.

Hope you like it, we both do

keith

John Martyn

We were sad and shocked to hear of John’s passing today, details are not out as yet but for sure he left far earlier than he should have.

John very generously gave us some of his time and advice quite recently and it was invaluable for us to get feeback on dbTwang from real guitar royalty.

No doubt there will be many tributes to his genius over the coming days but we’ll remember John relaxed and talking easily about the guitars he had played and the fellow musicians he had met along the way.

John Martyn, 1948-2009 R.I.P.

My co-founder is the initiator of dbTwang and it is he who will be responsible for the development and delivery of the service we offer to our users.

Watch this Video Clip (recorded a month or two ago) where Fintan talks about some of the long term goals which we have for the business.

Thanks to Thomas Crampton for this.

keith

dbTwang.com -  building the web’s favourite community for people passionate about guitars

A player and collector based in Spain and going by the handle of Shreddyknight shared his collection for the first time in the post linked here.

He headlines it with a couple of Kramers (as you would expect!) and then moves through everything from a 1989 Fender HM Strat, a 1992 Palm Bay Tidalwave (British make), a 2001 Suhr RB Koa and a great selection of Ibanez models. Treat yourself and read his post!

keith

dbTwang.com -  building the web’s favourite community for guitar collectors

John Lowry (John5) was the guitrist with Marilyn Manson and more recently had a couple of solo albums. He has a collection to die for and Guitar World did a video shoot with him. You can watch it here on the online TV channel Joost - free registration required.

keith

dbTwang.com -  building the web’s favourite community for guitar collectors

This was one for serious guitar collectors - the auction of a number of guitars released from the Martin private collection.

The proceeds from the auction which was held on October 10th were donated to their Charitable Foundation. Top items on the day included

• D-50 Deluxe prototype
• limited edition Gene Autry signature model
• D-45 Golden Era
• 000-28EC Eric Clapton Signature Edition guitar

For more see this post at Guitar Jam Daily.

keith

dbTwang.com -  building the web’s favourite community for guitar collectors

Peter Kellett does anodization - the process of increasing the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts. In short it makes metal pretty! And that is how he got his introduction to working with Fender’s Custom Shop.

That story and many, many others are contained in a Modern Guitars interview from January 2007 - click on this link for the full story.

Peter has between 100 and 150 guitars in his collection and he names his Deserted Island 5:

• A set-neck Strat
• A Gibson SG Custom Shop
• A ‘65 Strat
• One of the first 20 anodized Strats
• and a ‘58 Mary Kaye

He also touches on how he tries to prove the authenticity of guitars which he buys - this is a key area for dbTwang as we move to develop a trusted marketplace for guitar collectors. There are no easy solutions to it - but a number of interconnected actions and services that together will come close to an ideal market.

keith