Dan Armstrong

The guitars had long sustain caused by the solid Plexiglas body, though that material made for a heavy guitar—around 10 lbs.

The Dan Armstrong London instruments were made of solid Honduran mahogany with sliding low impedance pickups, available as a six string guitar, and short-scale and long-scale basses.

Armstrong also marketed a line of tube guitar and bass amplifiers and effects boxes, the Blue Clipper, Yellow Humper, Red Ranger, Purple Peaker, Green Ringer and Orange Squeezer.

The couple returned to England, where they lived in Ashford, Kent, in the late 1990s, but again moved back to America after several years.

After suffering from emphysema for many years, Armstrong died from a combination stroke and heart attack in Los Angeles on June 8, 2004.