Cover shot on The Lot

Yup, most likely.

For those who missed them, here are the pics of the shattered Birch that Bri posted on his soapbox a few years back..

Bob you prob know better than I butdidnt it get rebuilt and given back to brian?

Bob you prob know better than I butdidnt it get rebuilt and given back to brian?

I recall that it was....

I think, dare I say it, that Brian's memory of the John Birch guitar is somewhat cloudy. It was a long time ago. He gave the guitar to John Page of Fender guitars, who at the time were going to build a BM model. John Page took measurements of the Birch guitar and started work on a prototype but Fender dropped the idea and the broken Birch and started Prototype were left in John Pages work shop for years. The guitar never went to guild.

John Page was contacted about five or six years back regarding the Birch guitar and Fender prototype. The proptype and possibly the plans were sent to Everet Wood at RS Custom Guitars who did a total rebuild of the Page Prototype, very little existed, and then marketed it as the John Page prototype.

The Broken John Birch was sent to Andrew Guyton (Guyton Guitars) who put it back together and restored it to playing condition.

Andrew was asked to restore the Birch RS so that the 'battle scars' could still be seen... i.e. the cracks in the neck where it was repaired. Apparently Brian wanted to have a record of the event!

Interestingly, much of the gold paint (sprayed on the back) has oxidised and turned green; if you look carefully in the WWRY video you can start to see the beginnings of it. It plays and sounds great!

Its a beautiful guitar. I know brians memory is somewhat sketchy about certain things and to be honest after I got the letter iheard so many versions of what happend to that guitar and I always took bris word as gospel. But he has got a habit of contradicting himself as I have since discoverd. But lets face it the guys got a hell of a lot of past to remember.

Thanks for the info guys