A Small Document(My band)
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Music
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Locandina Los Dragosssss
GUITARS
Movies
-L'UOMO CHE CADDE SULLA TERRA.
-Buffalo 66.
-Brazil.
-"Birdy, le ali della libertà".
-Bad Taste.
-Mission.
-MARS ATTACKS!
-Le avventure acquatiche di Steve Zissou.
-Arizona Dream.
-American Graffiti.
-Il coraggioso.
-A History of Violence
-Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo.
-Mosters.
-Essere John Malkovich.
-Gangs of New York.
-Le Iene.
-La mosca.
-Il petroliere.
-Il cattivo tenente.
-l'uomo dalla cravatta di cuoio.
-Un uomo da marciapiede.
-Il maratoneta.
-Il tè nel deserto.
-Spider.
-eXistenZ.
-L'invasione degli ultracorpi
-Lo chiamavano trinità.
-Scanners.
-I Tennenbaun.
-Taxi Driver.
-Arancia meccanica
-Wrong Turn.
-The Others
-"Nosferatu".
-Fratelli di Abel Ferrara.
-bluw up
-Dogville
-The addiction
-Paura e delirio a Las Vegas.
-Il laureato.
-Fandango.
-Revenge.
-Risvegli.
-Mull holland drive.
-Il ritorno di Cagliostro.
-Un americano a Roma.
About me: I'm the man that creates guitars.
I'll try to be as synthetic as possibile but if you want more info, give me your personal email and i'll send you a more detailed document in attachment. Please tell more about your preferences, do you like the solid body or the semi-acustic? Describe your "ideal" Billyboy guitar.
In the mean while, I can tell you that my guitars are completly handcrafted and usually made on order according to the customer's requests, but occationally I also make some stock models (but there's nothing left in stock at the moment... selling fast recently). Below I describe what I usually use for the stock production.
First of all, I must tell you that I'm making, at the moment, a solid body guitar, a "jumbo size" semi-acustic and 2 versions of a hollow-body (more or less like rickenbackers, but with variable tonal-chamber sizes). You can see the 2 first models in the images on my "myspace" page and I'll soon post the photos of the newer hollowbodies.
And I also make bass guitars.
Every thing except for the hardware (tuners, bridge, electronics and pickups) is hand made, even the knobs on some models, the neck plate, the control plate (when present) and the skull shape tail-piece are made by hand in polished stainless steel.
The skull is my signature mark, but if the look doesn't suit your taste, your style or your band, I also offer a different shape.
I usually use the following woods:
Mahogany (I have different types, "normal" or light weight), Ash, Maple, Nord italian red-fir (the same wood of stradivari's violins used only as the top of the semi-acustics).
For both bodies and necks I can use only one wood or I can combine together different woods, and their sounds, depending on the customer's needs in matter of tone.
My usual receipt is light weight Mahogany with a 1 cm Ash top for bodies and mahogany centre with maple sides or only maple or only mahogany for necks. But, as I said, all this is variable acording the the customer's requests.
The neck shape is completly personalizzable, from slim to fat, tele/strato or gibson.
Fretboards are in rosewood or ebony with dot o square or thin line mother of pearl or abalone inlays. Radius 12".
The scale can be fender, gibson or 25". I've found the P.R.S/National/Dobro 25" scale to be a very valid solution for good playability, string tension and sound. It's selling quite well.
As for pickups, I can put in almost everything that can be found on the market and alot can be done also with the electronics.
An interesting combination that I found for the solid bodies are 2 TVJones and a central lipstick (or 3 lipsticks are nice too), with a switch for selecting the outer pickups (just like a gibson or a Telecaster) and an additional switch to put in series, parallel (or series out of phase) or deactive the central pickup plus a volume and tone control. This gives you alot of different sounds and the flexability of a stratocaster, but with more options offered by the series connections, very usefull expecially with 3 lipsticks to obtain a humbucker bridge or neck sound.
Another example, usually used on the semi-acustic is 2 volumes, a tone and the same 2 switchs as above.
On the new hollow-bodies, I'm trying an original approch with 2 minihumbuckers: a pickup selector, 2 volumes and 2 variable coil selectors instead of 2 tones controls (not many musicians use tone controls offen).
A variable coil selector is a potentionmeter that "fades in or out" one of the coils of the humbucker. Instead of a normal "coil tap switch" that changes a humbucker in a single coil, you can dial-in the amount of volume of the second coil... pratically you can have a single coil sound, a humbucker sound and everything in between! This was difficult for me to explain in english... hope it was clear.
Yet again, I can also make usual connections or study something you have in mind... just try to tell me what you're looking for.
I promised to be synthetic but it was hard... I hope I didn't bore you.
I thank you once again and hope to hear from you soon.
Billy.
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Costruisco artigianalmente questi modelli ispirandomi a tutti gli strumenti vintage che ho suonato(quelli standard,ma anche quelli con i suoni più "marci" e strani).
Musicista. Attualmente suono negli A SMALL DOCUMENT e il mio ex gruppo sono stati i LOS DRAGOS.In 25 anni di musica,ho sempre suonato musica originale,e per natura odio le cose scontate.
Alcuni dei modelli che ho creato,sono nelle foto.Il ponte è una invenzione mia e di mio padre,dopo molti esperimenti è diventato veramente un meccanismo perfetto.Uso vari tipi di Pickup a seconda delle caratteristiche che voglio ottenere.
Se volete informazioni più dettagliate mandatemi un'email.
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♥ D I V I N I ♥ last nite.. viste le fotine?? un po' lisergiche a 'sto giro.. in perfetto stile SMALL document· voglio il basso targato billyboy.. appena faccio i soldi me lo regaloo!! un abbraccio a prestooouuuu d
Our latest single 'Set Me On Fire' is now available worldwide from all major digital stores and includes the exclusive remix by dance legends Utah Saints.
"I'm totally feeling 'em!" - Liam Howlett, The Prodigy
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"The missing link between Soundgarden and The Prodigy has materialised!" - Eddy Temple-Morris
thanks for becoming friends! And the boors in front of the stage are totally excused because we realized that Lucca is definitely the craziest place in Italy :) love and dandelions, xtalons
Hi Billy Boy, I love your guitars.... Kalla Here are 2 of my vintage guitars a 60s KLIRA (on the left) a TEISCO. That's me in 1964 with my first guitar a FRAMUS
Ciao! grazie per averci aggiunto! Ti piace il rock al femminile??? Beh allora ti consiglio di andare a sentire i Drive Me Crazy: www.myspace.com/drivemecrazyrock Finalmente è uscito il loro nuovo bellissimo singolo "One Out of a Million", ed a febbraio li vedremo su Sky al nuovo programma ROCK IS POP... se ti va di supportarli con noi in Italia, aggiungili alla tua lista di amici Grazie 1000... ti auguro una buonissima giornata! Ciao *Yle*
Grazie a te. E complimenti per le tue chitarre. Ne ho vista e ascoltata una lo scorso inverno al concerto dei Black Angels al Bronson. Chitarra fantastica. Suono eccezionale. M
!! A PRESTO BILLY!!!!! WE LOVE THE STYLE OF A SMALL DOCUMENT!
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