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Hello! Hei! Hola!

I’m Andrew C Ferguson, a writer, poet, musician and, yes, seeker of the perfect wine to go with haggis, based in the Scottish Lowlands. I’m married with one daughter and work in local government as a day job.

This is a site mainly about my creative life – so if you’re looking for answers about common good law, I’m afraid you won’t find them here. You could if you like buy my common good law book, now in its second edition …

I’m also on Facebook and Twitter. My Bandcamp presence is one of the main places you can hear what I’m about now.

My novel, The Wrong Box, was published in 2017. Quite a lot of people seem to like it, although it is full of sex, swearing and lawyers behaving badly. You have been warned! You can learn more about it on my Books page.

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As a musician, there’s my own acoustic duo Tribute to Venus Carmichael, although I’m also a proud member of legendary country punk band Isaac Brutal. Please do have a listen to some of my solo work too – it’s on Bandcamp, and there are lots of offers to be had, including a free EP.

…and email me at venus[dot]carmichael[at] gmail[dot] com if you want to get in contact: you can also join my email list and get some exclusive stuff right off the bat!

One of my Spanish friends recently described me as: “polifacético,…. escritor, músico, agricultor de sueños, bohemio a tiempo partido, buscador de la belleza allí donde en apariencia los demás no logran verla.”  I’d settle for that. I particularly like the dream farming bit.

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Me with Emma ‘Emz’ Gow in Brutal action

11 comments

  3. I think I may have read that common good law book when I was part of the Land Registration Bill team in a previous life…

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  5. Hi there Andrew,

    This is all very fascinating and thank you for being kind enough to write about DeVille guitars and provide vital information that is pretty scant elswhere. I have had a four DeVille guitars and they have always been pretty decent and I picked up one last week from a guy in Haddington. I’m in Newhaven, Leith and have been a guitar tech on and off since the mid 1980’s.

    The latest DeVille to my mind just adds to the mystery of these amazing guitars. Thie one is a really good, and I mean REALLY GOOD 335 copy. AAAA flame maple top and back, flame maple sides, maple neck with a nice headstock scarf joint.

    Nicely aged cream binding, rosewood fingerboard, medium fat frets so all together nice (I bought if for myself which is rare!)

    So, I have stripped to down for cleaning and identification – nothing! No labels, small pots with no dates.

    I put my borescope in for look around the inside of the body fro makers marks or letters etc. Nothing.

    All the wiring is definately original – no resoldering which I would spot a mile off. Here’s the odd thing – Epiphone humbuckers reading 8.86 and 8.4 ohms. Now, the only way install different pickups in this guitar is to de-solder from the pots as the wires run through drillings from the pickup cavities to the pots — and as I said, the soldering on the pots is unmolested. This leads me to believe that these were factory installed, which is intriguing.

    The only other markers are a wee ‘$’ sign on the underside of the tuners which is visible when they are removed and a ‘B2’ Epiphone Tune o Matic bridge which looks original as does the stop tail. All hardware is gold.

    Since doing a bit of looking arounbd the web to see if there was any other info I noticed that someone mentioned that they thought that ‘DeVille’ was a house brand for Sound Control but I cewrtainly don’t remember seeing these in the Edinburgh or Dunfermline shop, so I got onto WayBack machine and went through the Sound Control web archive and there was not a single reference to DeVille.

    I’m happy to send you pics of the 335

    Cheers,

    Pete

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