Hello, welcome to my website. I’ve now had tens of thousands of visitors, so thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy.
It features a UK-based collection of guitars and associated kit accumulated over my 35-odd years of as a working guitarist. Some vintage, some classic, some more recent, all excellent. Also a few rants/words of wisdom. Some of the gear pages work as reviews too.
I’m hoping to post some more video of my instruments being played soon. The idea is to involve other players so you’re not exposed to my same old two licks again and again. for now there are four rough videos of me playing some nice old guitars now on Rockbeare’s YouTube channel here. And some much better recent playing courtesy of Stefanos Tsourelis here, now in ‘haitch dee’. Enjoy!
The site has no motive beyond sharing with other enthusiasts and like-minded souls. It contains some information and also has numerous useful links to other, more authoritative sites for further detail.
I’m a player first and became a collector, so I buy instruments for their sound and playability before their collectibility. I’m not into having multiple examples of things, for example vertical runs which evidence an instrument’s gradual evolution.
Some of these instruments reflect lifetime ambitions to own, others are just good guitars. All get used and gigged, some regularly, some very carefully! All have been bought out of income and I haven’t tended to trade much – at least not thus far.
There is a feedback mechanism, but given the value of some of the items, I seek to remain anonymous and am therefore unlikely to enter into personal correspondence. That said, I hope you enjoy it, and look forward to reading what you think. I would particularly welcome any factual comments/corrections so I can keep improving the site.
‘Rockbeare’
Some Rockbeare guitars featured in the December 2010 web issue of Premier Guitar magazine, in June 2012′s Vintage Guitar magazine and now also at Infinite Guitars…
hi,
i have got a antoria foreign 1959 and a Höfner 500/5 1963 bass for sale.
Let me know your mail, i will send you some pictures.
so long, greez dennis
Thanks for your comment. You can mail via the link on the homepage.
An inferior Hofner 500/5 to mine on offer in Andy’s Denmark Street today for a modest two grand sterling!
So many old Hofners down there right now, it begs the questions ‘how many were actually produced and sold at the time?’
Given the street’s reputation, who’s to know whether it’s kosher…
Awesome web site u have here by the way
You could have given B**P** a plug!
Yes, but it would create another connection through which I might be traced. Paranoid, I know, but I’m taking this interweb thing a step at a time.