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"Merlin"

The first song from AT's 1995 debut album. Written by Andrew Thomas. Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Andrew Thomas and Jeremy Ylvisaker.

"Merlin"
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12/28/2007 @ 03:06 PM: I spent a good portion of my "spare" time in 2007 working on several different guitar projects. Only one was completed, the blue sparkle ash Strat, and it was only started in mid-November. The finishing process is the reason for the holdup with the others; I have learned a LOT about painting, dying, and clear coating a guitar body (mainly that it is very time consuming and requires extreme patience). But I've also gotten much braver since my first custom guitar project during the summer of 2005. I no longer hesitate at doing the majority of the drilling and mounting myself, and I'll voluntarily do additional routing when needed.

I recall looking through guitar parts catalogs as far back as the late-1980s and thinking it would be a lot of fun to build my own axe. It took me a long time to finally do it, and I started out safe by simply reconstructing a guitar I can confidently call myself an expert on--the Peavey Wolfgang. Most guitars since have taken a few more risks.

And so here they all are presented: The completed ones first (starting with the most recent), followed by the in-progress ones (in order from oldest to newest).