Drummond + Hammett

Grillstock Festival 2013 | Bristol Summer Shack Attack

pat hammett — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:16:25 +0000

We’ve some pretty big plans this summer to set-up a small open-mic type shack stage around Bristol with one (or more) of the many wonderful festivals that are put on round these parts…We were thinking something a little back-water but with electricity and without hurricanes.

Professional Commissioned Artists Impression below

So Drummond & Hammett are gonna be there at GrillStock for sure! - Perhaps a Grillstock Competition giveaway with our CBG’s might be in the pipe line…

Read our Grillstock 2013 blurb here -

http://grillstock.co.uk/blogs/archives/drummond-hammett-come-to-grillstock/2819/

GrillStock Festival 2013 done. – turned out to be a bloody great weekend. Who’s next..?

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Drummond&Hammett ‘Trans-Amps’

pat hammett — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:28:52 +0000

…Available to buy Now!: Hand-wired and original to D&H – each 2watt ‘Trans Amp’ has a 2.5 inch speaker and comes housed within a WWII-era ‘anti-gas’ tin. Powered by a 9v battery these transportable amps deliver a ‘Grizzly’ signal that clears up nicely by rolling your guitar volume off. Easily attached to the body of a Cigar Box Guitar or Electric Guitar with a velcro pad should you so wish to. Add the optional ‘short patch cable’ for easy of use. Check the demo below.

Watch this space & watch this video for a taste….

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Electrification Explained

pat hammett — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:45:03 +0000

Mini Humbucker - The ‘mini-humbucker’ is our full-cream magnetic humbucking guitar pick-up, originally created by The Epiphone Guitar Company later bough by Gibson in the 50′s. This pickup produces clearer, brighter tones than that of many standard magnetic humbucker pick-ups and being rated at 9.55kOhm pack an enormous sound. This pick-up comes with both volume and tone control and is suitable for any playing environment. In addition, this pick-up option is wired to our own secret mojo tone circuit, which keeps the rich defined tone you get on volume 10 throughout the volume range.

P-90 ‘Soap Bar’ – Being a magnetic ’single-coil’ pick-up the tone of a P-90 is somewhat brighter and more transparent than a hum-bucker. The tone therefore shares some of the associated single coil twang, but having large amounts of midrange and often described as brisk. This style of pick-up was introduced by Gibson in 1946 and gives any guitar a real vintage look and sound. This pick-up comes with both volume and tone control and is suitable for most playing environments.

Piezoelectric Rod - These have a very different sound to the two magnetic-pickup options. Whilst having the advantage of not picking up any other magnetic fields, such as mains hum and feedback from monitoring loops, piezo’s lack the tonal range of a magnetic pickup and although such a pick-up can be used for a stage/live environment are generally only considered by ‘acoustic setting’ musicians and shouldn’t be used in conjunction with effects pedals. The ‘rod’ is housed within the bridge and comes with a volume control.

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Big Smoke SouthBank Designer Makers Market. Done.

gavinwilshen — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:01:28 +0000

So our final stall of the Christmas period (and year) is over and things went great.

Thanks to all who showed an interest in us and our products and to those whose dared strike a string.

Watch this space for new quirky guitars, kits, accessories and general hobo-inspired goods.

Bristol bound ~

Pat & Tom

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Limited Number of ‘Flamed’ Fretboards

gavinwilshen — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:00:40 +0000

…So in the depths of deepest darkest Somerset in the corner of a dusty barn we’ve managed to get our hands on some ancient brazilian-rosewood. It was so old, dusty and seasoned in fact that we had no idea until we machined-it-up what exactly we were buying. So cleaned, planed and cut into fret-board size chunks this block of rosewood uncovered itself as beautifully flamed with yellow, orange and red streaks – the streaks changed colour when exposed to sunlight from blond to what you see in the shot attached, something we’ve never seen before.

We’ve managed to get 15 or so fret boards worth from this section of timber and so the next 15 ‘Black Jack’ Cigar Box Guitar orders will come with one of these unique and striking fret boards.

We’ll let you know when we’re out – grab one before they’re gone.

They’re gone.

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Mini-Buckers on the menu

gavinwilshen — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:29:20 +0000

We now offer all models with one of our super-smooth ‘Mini-Buckers’ that are rated at 9.55kOhm!

These little chrome beauts are wound to the same spec as those famous DeArmond pickups of the 50′s and 60′s but half the size….

- a vintage sounds that can give any amp a run for it’s money. Check out our audio samples…. coming soon

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