I've ordered a couple of new ones since, and I always make a point of going to the shop to pick up my guitars.
#Tom anderson guitars thousand oaks full#
He proceeded to thank ME, then gave me a full tour (tiny shop, not long.lol), and BS about guitars and music. I show up unannounced, and tentatively open the door.dude pokes his head out of an office to the left, smiles, and says "can I help you with something"? So, I launch into my story about purchasing one of their guitars, how it was my favorite, etc., and just wanted to stop by and say thanks (or something to that effect). Tom Anderson Guitarworks produces less than 1000 instruments annually and has maintained a reputation for consistently high build quality, superb playability and innovative tones for over three decades. I'm still not entirely sure what I expected, I suppose I was just curious. Tom Anderson is is regarded as one of the most respected names in the American custom guitar market. Two or three years later, I'm working in Calabasas, and decide to drive out to Newbury Park, to see who had made this guitar that I had come to love so much I hadn't called first, so I didn't expect much, but I decided to go anyway. One day, I had walked into Make'n Music in North Hollywood, and they had one hanging on the wall long story short, played it, fell in love, and bought it (on layaway.lol) on the spot. I started playing Anderson guitars back in the early 90's. I'd love to hear others' speculation on this.Just a quick story about my experiences with Anderson. That's my recollection anyway - it has been a number of years.īut - that they don't get mentioned as much - and clearly, you know little about them probably for the same reason - that can make one wonder. I would say - IMHO - they absolute compare with the best Suhrs and PRS, and probably the finest (Custom Shop) Gibsons and Fenders.
And mind you, we also carried every Strat in the line - Custom Shops, Closet Classics (sort of a take on a NOS at the time), Relics, and the rest of the line. The group consists of Nick Anderson (vocals/guitar), Nick Schmidt (lead guitar). I don't know if there's a reason they're less often mentioned - maybe it's location (location location) or maybe it's that he can't build as fast, or whatever.īut I've never played anything that, IMHO, looked, sounded, or played as well. A Los Angeles-based indie rock band The Wrecks root from Thousand Oaks, CA. A Suhr would fit the bill if I wanted an "improved" strat with a FMT and all the other accoutrements, but if someone around here was still carrying TAs, I'd be down there drooling over them first. I'm a Strat guy, and a Fender guy at that. (864) 232-1231 Open by appointment and most weekdays from 3:00PM - 8:00PM. The Andersons I played were my dream guitar. 4200 E North St, Ste 8, Greenville, SC 29615.
Our local shop carries Suhr so there seem to be a fair number of players around town with them, but the same is true here at TGP - lot of talk of Suhrs and PRS (which this forum started off as), but barely a mention of Andersons - I here more about Reverends here even!
It's always amazed me how the PRS and later Suhr guitars have taken off and and see so much more press on them - especially PRS - which even became a fad amongst the kind of Nu-Metal set. Later, I encountered Suhrs, and to my knowledge, the Andersons were every bit as good, if not better.Īlso, IIRC, the Andersons were the first guitars I played with the switch that would take you to the Bridge pickup no matter where you were. This was before PRS entered the "entry level" market with the "SE" guitars IIRC. Just the most beautiful instruments I had ever played to that point.Īs a Strat player, the Andersons appealed to me - later we carried PRS and I thought they were of the same quality, yet I didn't like most of the PRS guitars personally as they seemed more of a Gibson style which for some reason I just couldn't bond with (though we had a semi-hollow that was just gorgeous sounding and looking). Years ago I worked at a guitar store and we sold them. I'm always surprised that there's not much discussion of them here.
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