Fender Stratocaster - An old guitar I had rebuilt at the end of the sixties and inherited from a very good friend of mine who passed away some years ago. The neck has been replaced with a new maple neck with Pall Sander (wood) top layer and Jim Dunlop high frets that are perfect for bending strings. The Pall Sander top layer gives the guitar a warmth that an original Strat seems to miss, this enables me to even play Jazz on this guitar. The tuning mechanism is by "Gotoh" which works and stays in tune fine. The pick-ups (original Strat single coils) have all been replaced by "Seymour Duncan" and the neck and middle pick-ups are from "Alnico" (single coils) and the bridge pick-up is a "Seth Lover hum bucker" with the possibility to switch this pick-up to single coil as well. The toggle switch is from the Strat and gives the normal 5 possible pickup configurations.

Ibanez "George Benson" - An old model GB-20, this guitar I bought in Holland beginning eighties when I began my Jazz study at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. The only part that has been replaced from this guitar is the pick-up. The original George Benson (little soap bar) has been replaced by an Seymour Duncan hum bucker which I find to be an improvement compared to the original pick-up. A beautiful instrument that sounds good and produces a warm pronounced tone  of course very suitable for Jazz style. I recently heard that this instrument (favored by Pat Metheney) has been taken out of production some years ago, this probably makes mine a collectors item.