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MARCH, 2010. PRICING OF CLASSIC PRO. We have had to update some of the pricing on the Classic PRO. This is due to the continuing strong Australian dollar against the US dollar as well as increased costs of some raw materials. Please update your price list, if you have downloaded one before. Earlier Classic PRO orders in current production will of course be unaffected by this. All new orders are to be priced on the current pricing structure.
MARCH, 2010. Pictures of ICEAXE. We've added a bit of "Eastern European" flavour to the "Gaskell Girls" and the other day we were happy to have helped out an aspiring model here in Sydney named Maja. Maja was born in Bosnia. Pass us the Vodka! We did a small photoshoot with her and got some great pictures of the new IceAxe. She is on the Firestarter and XBass pages now too. Maja and black guitars - what a combo! All the Gaskell Girls have exotic backgrounds of some sort! Maja is Eastern European, Sarah is part Filipino, Bronte is half Chinese (!), Shyanne is Hispanic, and Erika is British - yeah, that's exotic to us too! Anyway, getting back to guitars...
MARCH, 2010. GASKELL LEFT HANDED 8 STRING GUITAR? Since Ibanez released their 8 string electric guitar in 2007 very few other guitar companies have done the same. Schecter and ESP are really the only major brands that have an 8 string guitar - of course nothing left handed. 8 strings are the thing with a lot of current Metal bands such as Meshuggah, Devine Heresy, Whitechapel, Trapt etc. Tuned F# B E A D G B E an 8 string can pretty much make you a one-man-band. Not just Metal music, either. Check this guy out here on YouTube demoing the limited run Schecter 8 string or check this guy from Devine Heresy. Consequently, Gaskell Guitars is considering producing a left handed 8 string electric guitar. Ours will probably have the Gaskell Jackaroo body, although we are 50/50 about using the Classic body. It is in design stage but you can be sure it will be actualized this year - unless no one is interested! Send an email to "Grumpy Kev" if you have any comments or suggestions concerning 8 string guitars: enquiries@gaskellguitars.com Update: "Thanks, all for the comments!"
MARCH, 2010. UPDATED FAQ. We have updated our FAQ page and now have info about pickups, a mini-bio on Kevin and Peter, info on guitar cases, and some info on CNC (computer controlled manufacturing) as applies to Gaskell products. We encourage you all to read our FAQ so you get a true feel for what we are about.
MARCH, 2010. SYDNEY RETAIL OUTLET. Due to poor customer service and poor payment habits, we are dropping Downtown Music as Sydney outlet for Gaskell guitars. Although Gaskell's head office is a workshop and not a retail outlet or "shop" we will be opening our doors to anyone who wants to try a Gaskell in Sydney by pre-appointment only. This will be until we choose another retailer in Sydney to carry our products which we really aren't in any hurry to do so. Our main Australian retailer is PKS MUSIC in Perth, Western Australia. PKs have been successfully selling Gaskells for nearly 4 years and have excellent, genuine, and unequalled customer service and we thoroughly recommend you deal with them in your purchase of any Gaskell guitar. Also, shipping from Perth to Europe is cheaper as Western Australia is closer to Europe than Sydney which is on the other side of Australia a further 4000kms away. (For you Europeans, that's the distance from France to Iraq!)
FEBRUARY, 2010. A "real" Left handed Gibson Firebird. Apparently Gibson made 4 left handed Firebirds in the 47 years they have been making them, and right now one of them is for sale on the Internet for a bargain $27,500! Wow frickety wee! You can buy a Gaskell Firestarter for less than a thousand dollars and it's going to be brand new, better than the original, and made with 21st Century technology and materials. Or you can pay $27,500 for this one and show your love, through your donation, for the company that made 4 left handed guitars in 57 years! The disrespecting of lefty guitarists has got to stop. Tell me I am not the only one who can see through this joke. Think about it.
FEBRUARY, 2010. Ultimate Guitar. Just would like to let you know that www.ultimate-guitar.com are NOT lefty friendly and as far as I am concerned all who work there and run that piece of crap site can join all the others that crap on lefty guitarists. Hope they get hacked out of existence by someone some day. I'll shut up now, before this starts becoming an "Ed Roman rant." Kevin Update: "Ok, I'm calm again. I am over it."
FEBRURY, 2010. CONGRATULATIONS. We have just heard from Maria Erikkson, one of the models who did a guitar photoshoot with us last year (see her on Classic/Classic II and Firestarter pages), that she is the Centrefold for the February 2010 issue of Playboy Croatia! That's not a publication we have any particular interest in or support for, but it is very well done to Maria, and it's a major accomplishment, so kudos to Maria!
FEBRUARY, 2010. LEFT HANDED "ICEMAN." The Gaskell left handed version of the Ibanez Iceman is now finalized. Ours is called "Ice-Axe" and is inspired by the Iceman model that they brought out from 1995-1998. The product page is up on the GG website and pretty soon we'll put a few pictures up, as soon as we shoot the one and only one we have now: Serial Number 0001! Order now for May 2010 release. Price for Australasia and Europe is AU$899 and for USA and the rest of America will be $669.00. After we shoot, we will put "0001" up for sale - sell to the highest bidder! We think "0001" could be the first ever left handed Iceman style guitar in the World (?) Hope so!
FEBRUARY, 2010. FLOYD ROSE. Future Gaskell guitars that have Licensed Floyd Rose tremolos (Brumby, Classic III) will be fitted with genuine USA, Original Floyd Rose tremolos, sourced from Floyd Rose, New Jersey, USA direct. Templates need to be redone, and as soon as that is completed we will move over to the "real Floyd." There will be a price increase on those models to go with the upgrade. We expect this to be sometime around May 2010. Update: we need to redo our templates. This is not going to happen for a while. May 2010 deadline will not be met.
FEBRUARY, 2010. LEFT HANDED EXPLORER ON EBAY. You might be interested to know that there ia 1985 hotted up Gibson left handed Explorer on ebay UK right now. It has been retrofitted with EMGs, going for US$ 6450 (approx $AU 7300.) Be that as it may, if you want a left handed Explorer with EMGs you can get a Gaskell HUNTSMAN, and pay only $AU 1800 (approx US$ 1500) with a hard case. Or, get one made to order via Classic PRO options, for well under $AU 2000 (approx 1000 Euros.) And that's for a NEW guitar! Or buy a normal Gaskell Classic and retrofit some EMGs in there yourself. Even that way, you would still come in under $1300 in the end. Gaskell Guitars gives left handed guitarists many options. Update: it looks like it sold. Can you believe some people?
JANUARY, 2010. SYDNEY "WEEKEND WARRIORS" SHOW. Australian guitarists all know about the "Weekend Warriors" event, hosted annually by Allan's Music (Australia's largest musical instrument chain store) and this year Gaskell Guitars will be providing several guitars for the Sydney show at Allan's in Alexandria. So, if you are a lefty guitarist intending on trying out, now is your chance to try a Gaskell at the same time. There will be a Koru (with DiMarzios), Special Option V, and a Viking bass supplied for your use. Come on Sydney lefties let's create a real lefty presence this year!
JANUARY, 2010. NEW PRODUCTS - UPDATE! We are just round the corner from releasing the long awaited, Gaskell left handed ICEMAN style guitar, as well as a FLYING V BASS. Many have enquired about these two types of guitars, and since they are not available left handed by original manufacturers, we are happy to oblige. We estimate a production run of both to be completed by May 2010 (or sooner!) At this stage the Iceman (sorry, no new name yet) will be available in black with white binding, tun-o-matic and 3x3 headstock. Please pre-order for the Iceman ASAP. Australasian/European price will be AU$899 with softcase. Price for the Americas will be US$669 with softcase.
** NEW PRODUCT! ** NEW PRODUCT! ** NEW PRODUCT! We are happy to announce a new product to the Gaskell range: a very unique left handed Explorer style guitar we are calling the "Huntsman" (named after our famous Australian spider!) This guitar is Australian-made, and comes in matt black, with black hardware and dot inlays and with EMG active pickups. Retailing for (AU) $1800 including hard case (yes, believe it!), this guitar is in a league of it's own, and sits above our regular range of guitars, and below our top-of-the-line, fully Australian-made "Hall Of Fame Series" (more on that later in 2010.) Turnaround time to order the new Huntsman is only 4 weeks, on a 50% deposit! Order now! (Sorry USA and Canada lefties, we will not be offering a USA-made equivalent just yet.)
JANUARY, 2010. Australian Prices. Due to the continuing strength of the Australian dollar we have been able to reduce some of the Australian prices of our guitars! Please download the new 2010 price lists from our DOWNLOADS page. We ARE looking after left handed guitarists!
JANUARY, 2010. Guitars in stock. We have guitars. Pre-ordered guitars will be ready to ship out in the next week or two. We have ALL the new colours for the Classic, Classic II, and Classic III models in stock! The transparent red looks just awesome! We will get one of the "Gaskell Girls" in to photograph these new models in the next week or so. Regarding the Retro: Blue and British Racing Green colours are all sold out already - they went like wildfire! We still have plenty of cherry red and sunburst available. Firestarter and Jazz models are available in all their colour choices again. We will be restocking the Australian shops shortly. North American lefty's continue to purchase direct from our USA office in San Diego.
JANUARY, 2010. New model "ICEMAN" style on the cards for 2010. Due to requests by lefty guitarists from all over the world, we will be doing a left handed Iceman model this year. If you are interested in this model please contact our Australian or USA office direct and give us any feedback. We would like to use the word "Ice" somewhere in our name for it, but we don't know yet. Give us some ideas, if you have any... On the short list already is "Goanna" - a particularly viscious little native Australian beast!
JANUARY, 2010. Happy New Year to all lefty guitarists! Our Australian head office will be open again from 4 January. Peter who runs the USA office can be contacted easily before then for any enquiries or purchases. Australian enquiries that must go through head office please be patient until January 4. Please note updates below on B-stock left. Be fast, or miss out!
DECEMBER, 2009. "Christmas arrival" Australia and Europe. Our current run of guitars coming back from the factory is going to overshoot Christmas by 2 weeks. Customers who have pre-ordered guitars in this run, please be aware of this but do not panic or worry! By the second and third weeks of January we shall be setting up and getting your guitars out to you. This includes Classic PRO orders.
DECEMBER, 2009. NEWS FOR 2010 Firstly on behalf of the staff of Gaskell Guitars here in Sydney and in San Diego, we would like to wish all lefty guitarists and bassists a Merry Christmas and a safe, music-filled new year! As we streamline our operation to meet demands, the following changes will occur in 2010:
1) The Sage model will be discontinued from 2010. Current stock in any music stores will be the last ones available internationally
2) All Gaskell guitars in 2010 will come standard with Jim Dunlop strings, fitted locally (Australian and USA) and fully replacing the generic factory strings that the guitars come with now. There will be no extra charge.
3) We are in the process of re-sourcing for an upgraded "licensed under Floyd Rose" tremolo for all our Floyd equipped instruments. We are testing (among others) Schaller (Made in Germany) and Gotoh brands and whichever brand we decide to go with there will be a price increase on all our instruments that take the Floyd Rose. Note, this is not because of any "problems" with the existing tremolos we use. This is simply so we can give you an even better guitar!
4) Not really "news" but a discovery: check this 3 part video called "Good & Bad Heavy Metal Guitars" on YouTube. There is a whole College education right there in these 3 videos. He is talking about right handed guitars but it doesn't matter. The information maybe very valuable to you or someone else. Part 3 is particularly informative. Watch all 3 parts!
SALE! SALE! SALE! --- SPECIAL "SCRATCH-AND-DENT" SALE --- WHILE STOCKS LAST! Our USA office has a few "scratch and dent" B-stock guitars - all brand new and unplayed - and ALL $200 off their regular price! All guitars are 100% except for a minor blemish of some sort, and generally unnoticeable. No more noticeable than what happens when your belt buckle has scraped the back of the guitar a couple of times, or after you've banged it into the mike stand a few times, etc. Some of these guitars have our original pre-2009 Korean import, covered pickups, before we switched to Wilkinson open pickups. We are clearing these products out! All are BRAND NEW and have never been played. "First in, first served!" Contact Peter direct at our USA office: gaskellguitars-usa@mail.com Here is the list:
1. Retro - Sunburst. 2009. Small chip on body. Otherwise 100% $639 down to $439 - a steal for whoever gets this one!
2. Limited Edition Firestarter (highly collectible - only 12 ever made) 2008. Non-reverse headstock. Small blemish on body. Could benefit from a fret dress. Otherwise 100% $718 down to $518 - profit = $0.00!
2009 NEWS (PDF)
2008 News (PDF)
2007 News (PDF)
2006 News (PDF)
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