Here are photos of me with my Steinberger guitars.
I made my first guitar out of a shoe box, paper towel roll, and decorated it with tin-foil and water color paint:
6th grade talent show [1980] – My first electric guitar was a Gibson Les Paul Studio:
In 10th grade I finally got the guitar I always wanted, a Gibson Les Paul Custom, but it came with plastic tuner knobs. I immediately called Gibson and told them I wanted the gold metal knobs but they said now their guitars come with either plastic or metal tuner knobs and you get what you get. They would not exchange the plastic tuners. Those tuning machines were much cheaper and got out of tune often interrupting my practice. I spent most of my time tuning that guitar. That guitar was so heavy it gave me back pain so I sold it and bought my first Steinberger, a black GL2T.
In 1989 I went to Lahaina, Maui Hawaii for Haiti Wolframm’s [Bass Guitar for the jets] wedding reception. I put those small squares that are on a disco ball on the front of my Steinberger GL2T. Leroy Wolfgramm, also in the Jets, was my friend. Him and I played guitar, drums, keyboard, and wrote and recorded music.
1992 – My friend and first guitar teacher Drew Kabanuk and I started a band together called PARADISE BAND. I played guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, and ran the stereo sound system (always wearing headphones when I performed in that band so I could make volume and panning adjustments with the mixer as we performed:
My grandpa Tom [Thomas Limborg] playing my Steinberger GL7TA around the year 1989. I think he was over for Christmas time. He would always play an acoustic guitar at his house:
In 1993 I bought my custom white Steinberger GL7TA. Paul Booth Johnson and I both played guitar in PARADISE BAND. We would switch playing bass guitar so we didn’t have to hire another musician in the band to split the money we made performing:
I printed graphics on Vinyl Inkjet Paper with a temporary adhesive packing. On top of that I put a high-gloss clear/transparent paper sheet that also had an adhesive backing to protect the printed image from water/sweat. Then I used Edge Sealer with a small paint brush to paint all the edges of the paper so it wouldn’t curl. The Edge Sealer eventually turned a yellowish color. Before I sold the guitar I removed the vinyl inkjet paper from the guitar using a blow-dryer, heating it up so the adhesive backing was easier to remove. Then I used 2000 grit sandpaper with water to gently sand away the yellowish Edge Sealer that was on the white body of the guitar. That worked well! I had a company in Fridley, Minnesota called Surface Solutions do what is called TiN Coating on my tremolo bar. TiN coating never wears off like gold-playing does.
-James Limborg