Post #20508 by Luckydesigns on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 1:33 AM

This last Saturday I went to the NAMM show (music industry trade show) in Anaheim and who did I see amongst all the rock stars but Tiki.

Here it is for you:

I found this tiki at the Fender room being used for displaying a new line of surf inspired guitars. The bodies of the guitars include stringers found in longboards. I'm not sure who carved the tiki. Maybe Mai Tiki?

As I walked around the Fender room, a group of guitars caught my eye. Shag painted a collection of Fender custom shop telecasters. The far left guitar features a western scene (something that I don't think I've seen him do yet), the middle is a jungle tiki scene, and the far right features more of a witch doctor music type thing. I found some information on the middle guitar. The wood is flamed koa wood with matching pickguard. The Shag-designed tribal mask position markers on the neck were inlayed in green malachite. Pretty cool.

Here's a better view of the guitars.

Later on I went and saw Lee Rocker (formerly of the Stray Cats) at the King Doublebass booth.

Once he started slappin' and movin' the bass around I noticed his cool pin stripping on the back of it.

That is my tour of NAMM tiki. I hope you enjoyed it. I won't bore you with the pictures that I took of Jerry Only from the Misfits or me with Elvis' guitar player, or the guy with the star makeup from KISS. That guy is just silly...