Paulus19

Gordon Whitham and Chris smith were originally Gordon smith guitars, based in partington, Cheshire. They split up some time in the 80's and Gordon after the an agreed trading agreement then set up Gordy guitars. I knew Gordon personally and had a few sessions playing around altrincham,hale and around. Gordon was a really good bass player, his band was called shytot! In fact Gordon bought my JBL fender showman 15's speakers. He did a brilliant job repairing my Gibson les Paul, some jerk in a club knocked it over and snapped the top of the neck clean off. I then bought a custom made strat shaped Gordy to my own spec. Maple neck,black with silver speckles, three pickup, with a built in booster. 30 yrs on I still have it it it plays brilliantly, and has always been the partner on stage with my LP. I kept in touch with Gordon over many years, he did a repaint on my gold top and it is still as good as new. Gordy guitars was set up at the coach house behind Volvo motors on wash way road in altrincham. Gordon is a great person who I miss for the occasional drop and chat and I aways remember the smell of the cellulose. I think my Gordy is one off but only Gordon could confirm if he made others to my spec. Other close friends were Dave Curbishly on drums who I also played with in that era. I tried on occasion to make contact with Gordon through linked in etc but as yet not been able to make contact. I recently had some work done by another old school luthier called Brian Eastwood, in Bacup Lancashire, he knows Gordon well too and had seen him recently, he told me that Gordon was doing some teaching. Wherever you are Gordon mate, get in touch, I'm sure we'd have a good nights conversation over a Guinness or two. My treat. Anyone want to share their Gordy moment contact me please. Paul ( from Stretford)