When I started collecting guitars around 2000, I was not interested in Bill Lawrence guitars at all.  But several years later, Bill Lawrence guitars started attracting me somehow.  Then I began to collect them.

Bill Lawrence guitars were made of good material.  Moridaira Gakki company had much knowledge about guitar woods accumulated by experience of Morris acoustic guitar manufacturing.  It’s so good to use 1 or 2 pieces body even on low price models like this, and accurate router woodworking.

Bill Lawrence adapted two types of single coil pickups.  One was famous BlackLabel pickup the other was BlackTracer.  BlackLabel needs following conditions listed below.

BlackLabel pickup features
1) a naked bobbin with single center hole.
2) no plate magnet on its back side.

It’s not BlackLabel if there is plate magnet on its behind.  At the early period, BlackLabel pickups seemed to be mounted on BC1D-57 and BC1D-62, but changed to Black Tracer 6 months later.

Each bridge piece have dent to hold string, that are different from BC1D-62.  Easy grip neck shape and semi-flat fingerboard help me to play with joy.

​Alder two pieces body, 3.37kg includes strings. (updated 2021.1.1)