Mr Frank Cotta

Written by Administrator on Tuesday, 01 June 2010

"We rescued our Frank, as we call him, from a school store cupboard, our saviour guitar maker and 'doctor', said we should set fire to him and video the event but we got to like Frank's warm voice and his classic Art Deco lines so persuaded Tom to fix him up without too much expense. Hearing what you've done to your 'Radio' model makes me wonder if we should have spent more, there s always that option, but a jazz bass player has him now - I borrow him for events like our gig at Rothbury Street Fair. Tom put a carbon fibre rod in Frank's banana neck, fitted a Schaller jazz pickup, rebuilt the finger board and cut a pick guard in the style of the Gibson L5, which seems to be what Frank was shoddily copied from? We would also love to know more about the orgins of these guitars - badly made yet strangely compelling like a character from a Murakami novel."