Guitars : 

  At twelve years old Deb's parents bought her a secondhand nylon string guitar for thirty dollars. She hardly put it down and took it to school with her.

  Deb bought her first steel string guitar from a friend on North Stradbroke Island. She kept this guitar for ten years before gifting the guitar to a local Aboriginal boy while visiting Kuranda, QLD.

  Deb bought a semi-acoustic/electric Maton (Australian made) cutaway guitar from a music shop in Brisbane, QLD. This is the guitar she plays today.

Lapsteel : 

  Deb first began learning to play lapsteel guitar on an early 1930's Australian made guitar called a Sutton. A cheap Hawaiian-style guitar she paid eighty dollars for at a pawnbrokers in Melbourne. For the first time in over ten years of playing, Deb began to teach herself to fingerpick. Finding it difficult, she soon became frustrated and began banging the strings. This developed into the percussive style in which she now plays. Just one year later this much loved, priceless relic was stolen from her van while she was out bushwalking.

  The acoustic lapsteel guitar Deb currently plays is a solid top nylon string guitar which was made in Sicily. Guestimates date it back to the early 1930’s. Deb replaced the nylon strings with steel, raised the nut and  converted the guitar to lapsteel. Purchased at Byron Music in 2004.

Mandolin : 

Deb's current mandolin was made in Germany, also in the early 1930’s. She bought it second hand from a local music shop that sourced it from Casino in Western NSW.

Her first mandolin cost two dollars and was bought from a local garage sale. It was made in Vietnam and the woman having the sale had hung it on her wall as an ornament for the last eight years. Deb sanded and varnished it before playing it live for two years. Now it hangs on the wall in her house.

Tambourine :

Several years ago she found a rusty worn out tambourine on the side of the road at a local beach Broken Head. She found a way of attaching it to her foot and played it live until one by one the silver discs fell off and she finally had to buy a newer model.

Stomp box: As many have done before, she found some scrap wood under the house and banged together a stomp box.