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BUNGENDORE GUITARS |  |
Call 0429 477 466 or visit the website at www.bungendoreguitars.com.au |
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MARGINALLY IRRESPONSIBLE VINTAGE GUITARS | |
To check out MIVG go to www.marginallyirresponsible.com |
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LARK AMPS | |
Visit Lark Amps and contact Derek here www.dereklark.com.au |
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TWANGCENTRAL | |
Get Twangin' here for full details www.twangcentral.com |
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BERKETA GUITARS | |
Ray can be contacted through his website www.berketaguitars.com |
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COPLEY GUITARS | |
Check out John's guitars at www.copleyaustralia.com.au |
I can recommend the following guitar and amp friends whom I've got to know over the years and where I've personally seen and played the quality of their gear and services. If you are looking for handmade guitars or amps, rare vintage items hard to find elsewhere, or great repair work, scroll down and check these out! - Dr Zot 
One of the best looking and sounding amps in my small collection of classic valve amps is a 1948 Magnatone Troubador beautifully restored by Mick Ridge. Mick is based in Adelaide where he specialises in high quality work on guitar and bass amps. I can highly recommend his technical knowledge and eye for detail as well as musician's ear for great tone. 
If you are in the south west NSW region I can recommend calling in to see at Adam at Bungendore Guitars at 36 Gibraltar Street, Bungendore NSW 2621. The shop is open on weekends with lots of cool guitars and accessories! 
Dale Stevenson is a friendly Aussie who runs this delightfully-named website specialising in excellent examples of Harmony, Kay, Danelectro and related guitars, especially archtops, from the 1950s and '60s. Currently based in Vienna, Dale has an international network and is 'the' guy to talk to if you want to get hold of one these great vintage style and tone monsters before too many other guitar fans discover them! 
Derek Lark repairs and makes valve amps in Canberra and his work is truly "vintage by design", for example his hand made Tweed and Princetone models. Derek has a great combination of technical skills, a musician's ear and fast, friendly service. Derek is a big part of our annual National Vintage Expo, and services all the amps that appear on the ZoT site. 
Terry runs my favourite guitar shop in Australia: Twangcentral at 208 Gilbert Street in Adelaide's historic south-west corner. I've known these guys for 35 years, done Vintage Guitar Shows with them, and have learned more about vintage Fenders from Terry than anyone else! If you're in Adelaide make sure to call in and meanwhile check out the website.
Ray Berketa is one Australia's most experienced luthiers, starting his workshop back in the 1980s. He makes beautifully crafted steel string acoustics, spectacular solid body guitars such as his "Blue Angel" model, and on special order, carved-top jazz guitars, at his workshop in north Canberra, Australia.
John Copley makes excellent round and square neck resonator guitars, flat top acoustics and ukuleles in Canberra, Australia. His guitars often feature fine Australian tone woods and have great responsiveness and projection. He's also made special order guitars such as a small bodied 13-fret neck lightly braced model. 
If you in the Canberra district and need good quality work done on guitars or other stringed instruments, we can recommend Simon Daly. Following his return from an Australian Rare Trades Association sponsored study tour in Europe, Simon set up his workshop in Canberra' southside at Curtin, ACT. As a fully trained violin-maker and luthier, Simon can do all aspects of string instrument repair work, and he's a good guitar player and nice guy too!