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Hot Rod Straps

Buckle up and play your guitar. These guitar straps are available in several models: Cadillac, Chevrolet, Corvette and a guitar logo. These straps will not only outlive your guitar, they'll probably outlive you. They're made from 6000 pound tensile seatbelt webbing.

Psychobilly Products, LLC
900 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
(800) 475-7255
www.hotrodstraps.com

Hot Rod Straps

 

Danelectro pedals

Danelectro

Continuing on our car theme, Danelectro has improved on the car-shaped guitar effects that they introduced last year. Now they've got several new models that sport different paint jobs. The effects are really quite cool, one of them is a reverse tape effect and another is a whammy pedal.

Danelectro
P.O. Box 5030
San Clemente, CA 92674
(949) 498-9854
www.danelectro.com

 

Berkeley Cases

We don't want the horn section to miss out on the custom car vibe. These metalflake cases look to be extremely well built too.

Berkeley Cases
3-5 Station Road
Edgeware
Middlesex HA8 7JE
England
+44 (0)20 8951 0312
www.berkeleycases.com

Berkeley Cases

 

Wiggy

Wiggy

OK, this retro fifties thing has gone way too far. Now we've even got Peavey in the act with this dashboard guitar amp head. I don't know what they're for but it's even got a turn signal. The cabinet looks very Ren & Stimpy with the trapezoidal grill cut out.

Peavey Electronics Corporation
5022 Hartley Peavey Drive
Meridian, MS 39305
www.peavey.com

 

Hiwatt Custom Tape Echo

Finally a retro device whose packaging is not over the top. This is an honest to god tape echo unit as you can see through the clear lid. You can even control the tape speed with and expression pedal.

Hiwatt Amplification
8163 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91605
(800) 318-8599
www.hiwatt.com

Hiwatt Custom Tape Echo

 

Grip Picks

Grip Picks

As you can see this is a contoured pick designed to give you more control and to make it harder to drop.

Grip Picks
www.grip-picks.com

 

Turbo Lid

Replace the cover of your harmonica with a turbo lid. It gives you a smoother surface to blow against and a little mellower tone. It comes in a variety of colors, all translucent.

Antakamatics, Inc.
78 Leicester St.
Port Chester, NY 10573
www.turboharp.com

Turbo Lid

 

Flat Boy

Flat Boy

What you see here is a flat, lightweight piece of plastic that attaches to your guitars strap lock. When you are done playing you simply set down your guitar on a flat surface and it stands by itself.

Viva
A-4084 St. Agatha
Flurweg 5
+43 (0)72 77/27 201
www.flatboy.com

 

Quickstand

Another entry in the built-in guitar stand category is the Quickstand. This will work with both acoustic and electric guitars and when not in use will fold up against the body of the guitar.

Miller/Kellogg, Inc.
P. O. Box 940201
Simi Valley, CA 93094
www.quikstand.com

Quickstand

 

Clark Tactile Sound Monitors

Clark Tactile Sound Monitors

This is a great alternative to having a big wedge putting out 120db of low frequencies that reek all sorts of havoc with the open mics. You mount a speaker in your stool (or drum throne) that only go to about 800hz. You can feel the bass without everyone having to hear it too. Clark makes a number of models for various applications.

Clark Synthesis
8122 Southpark Lane, Ste 110
Littleton, CO 80120
www.clarksynthesis.com

 

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