Another Veneman Music Bradley from Matsumoku Japan. Purchased the summer after my freshman year and gigged with quite a bit. At one point I had a B-bender on it but took it off as I could never get it to stay in tune. The tag on the headstock is something I found while working at the Electric Boat shipyard in New London CT in the early 1990s. At one point I flipped the control panel around and moved the volume knob to the front so I can access it for swells. I also completely shielded the control cavity and pickguard with copper shielding which really helped with hum and clarity.  Great feeling neck and twang for days.

Gig picture is probably 1988 or 89. I know we are playing “The End Of The World As We Know It” because Frank wrote the (extensive) lyrics out on dot-matrix computer printer paper.

This guitar has a one-piece maple neck i.e. no fretboard “cap.”