Semi-Acoustic Electric The famous Be Bop Guitar

Early 80's - Japan

Electro-Acoustic (USA)

(Germany)

Custom-built for Bill

Custom-built for Bill (1980's)

Late 50's (USA)

Plastic-bodied Electric (Italy)

Czechoslovakia

As per Jimi Hendrix's first electric guitar

1960's Japan

1970's USA

Double Anniversary

Early 60's UK

1960's Italy

6120 Nashville

Long-Horn (Japan)

USA

Tri-Cone Resonator (Germany)

1950's Germany

Everly Brothers Acoustic (1970's Japan)

Semi-Acoustic Bass (1970's Japan)

1970's USA

Parlour Guitar (Korea)

Italy

Maker unknown (Germany)

Middle-East

This was found at a junk shop some years ago...it was actually playable then and worked well as an acoustic slide guitar, but since then the tailpiece anchoring the strings broke off beyond repair and the bridge got lost. One of these days though, I'll paint some designs on it and turn it into an art piece. - Bill Nelson

With a Dulcimer and Chinese Mandolin

Two ancient Mandolins & 1920's Banjolele with hand-drawn faces

With a Ukelele and a 5-String Banjo

Bought for a cup of tea in 60's art school I can't recall the fellow art student who gave me the old resonator guitar, but it was in return for a cup of tea and nothing more. It was completely unplayable, with chunks missing from the fretboard, broken tuners, no bridge or strings, cracks in the top and a dark brown, heavily varnished finish that was peeling away from the body. But I liked the style of it and set to painting it in a sort of psychedelic flower pattern, (though I never finished it and to this day the back and part of its side is still the original brown colour.) And yes, I do still own it, a nice souvenir of my 1960s art school days. - Bill Nelson

Bill's unfinished school woodwork project (Early 60's)