| This is my Sherwood Green custom strat copy made by Warmoth Guitars in Washington state. The company allows you to choose all the details of the guitar to your particular specifications, so if its not the way you want it, it's your fault. This one has an alder body, and a vintage strat tremolo. The neck is based on a 1962 strat neck shape and design with medium jumbo frets. I also have installed the Kinman Blues pickups that I love. Assembled and set up by my friend, bassist, and master luthier Mike Sherman.
I would like to add special thanks to my lovely wife Robin. She came home with a big bonus check from work a couple of years ago, handed me half of it, and basically told me to build a custom guitar. I was floored! I will only part with this guitar with my dead body clutching onto it. Thanks again Robin, I love you always! 
This is my black 1997 USA Fender California series strat, which has been my workhorse guitar for the last eight years. They only made them for a couple of years. The neck on this guitar is very small and comfortable, much like an older strat, with 21 medium jumbo frets, vintage style tremolo bridge, and Kinman AVN Blues hum-cancelling pickups which I had installed around 2000. These pickups are made in Australia and are very expensive, but they are really worth the money because they sound like great strat pickups without the 60 cycle hum normally associated with strats. I have worn some of the finish off the neck of this particular guitar because it has been played so much! This is the second really good guitar I ever bought.
This is the guitar I learned on! It is a 1988 USA Fender strat "Deluxe" model, in black of course! I used to really believe that black strats sounded better, due to being an Eric Clapton fanatic in my teens. I mowed about 30,000 miles of lawns to get this guitar at age 14. I will probably never appreciate an instrument more than this one. It originally came with Lace Sensor pickups, but I have swapped out the pickups to Kinman AVN Blues Pickups like all my guitars. It's an old guitar but it has proved to have plenty of snot left in it, and it resonates so loud acoustically probably due to its age. After a long period of retirement I will be bringing this one out as well as the others from time to time, to keep the mojo in it.
This is my trusty Tech 21 Trademark 60 that I have been using since around 2000. This little amp is actually solid state but sounds very much like a tube amp, and it has never let me down. It's a nice light weight, this one is about 35 lbs. It is a 60 watt channel switching amp, but I never use the lead channel, just the clean channel with the two Ibanez Tubescreamers. This amp has been upgraded with a Jensen speaker, and it has done wonders for the sound of this amp. 
My pedal board setup has gotten simpler over the years. What you see here is the bare essentials for me to get my sound. The guitar is plugged in to the little A/B box that says "TUNER", which splits the signal to either the tuner itself for silent tuning or through the other pedals and out to the amp. The two Ibanez Tube Screamers have been modified by Robert Keeley(www.robertkeeley.com). One has a White LED and is set up for lead and the other with a Blue LED is set up for rhythm. Then into a Boss DD-5 Delay and that's it. I sometimes may have the occasional Wah or Volume pedal hooked up separately from the board, but these pedals are typically all I need.
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