(Oct 2011)                 

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Standard Hollow-body, Bird's Eye Maple top    

    Here is a new Bird's Eye top Hollow-body very similar to the one further down this page. There are two main differences between these guitars.  The first is that this one has a Macassar Ebony fingerboard and head veneer, and the other has Rosewood  - and  instead of the regular Amalfitano Fullbuckers, on this guitar I used a pair of Amalfitano "Barrybuckers."  These pickups use shortened Alnico 5 magnets which produce a tighter magnetic field around the strings, the thought being that it results in a more focused tonal response.  It sounds pretty damned good!

(available at Destroy All Guitars)

 
T2 Deluxe, Pelham Blue finish   

   Old color, New guitar! This T2 doesn't have a Maple cap on the top - it's all Mahogany.   It gives a more mellow tone to the guitar which is a great compliment to the bright sound of the Seymour Duncan Mini Humbuckers.  The guitar's got black binding all around and a 5-ply black and white pickguard. 
  Pelham blue is one of those colors with a great vibe in any of it's classic shades from bright blue to vivid green - (the old guitars that were finished in this color turned "green" over time because the clear laquer top coat turned yellow).

                         A super light weight guitar!

(Sept. 2011)

(available at Tommy's Guitars )

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(Sept. 2011)

     

T2, Black Limba   

    Here is another wild Black Limba T2.  It's slightly  different from my regular T2s in that it has triple-dot inlays and a Black Limba face on the head stock.

   Other than this it's a regular T with Amalfitano P90s, Grover tuners and a TonePros bridge.

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12-string HB, Curly Redwood top     

   I have a real soft spot for 12-strings and really enjoy building them.  This guitar has been slightly redesigned from my regular 12-string model - I reshaped the head stock, left off the raised control panel on the body, and used a new two-way truss rod with the ajustment on the head instead of the body.  This allowed a slightly wider pickup spacing to be used. The bridge is an ABM 12-way ajustable string-through body arrangement, and the tuners are Gotoh Minis.  The pickups are Razor stacked Strat humbuckers which have all the sparkle of a single coil, but without the "hum."   I've wired these a little differently to the regular guitar as well.  The neck and bridge pickups are on a three-way selector, and the middle pickup is on a separate independent volume control which allows it to be mixed with the other two pickups or used on its own.

                     It's a great sounding guitar!

(Aug 2011)

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The lovely Curly Redwood top has been given a wash of orange stain which gives it a really deep glow.  The fingerboard and headstock are Brazilian Rosewood with a wild pattern and an unusual dark to light "burst effect" running from bottom to top.   On the back of the body I ran an inlay line around the string retainer and up to the heel cap as a decorative feature.

(Aug 2011)
                         
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Valiant, Quilted Maple top 

    This beautiful Valiant is the last of the orders I had before Premier Builder's Guild took over the Valiant last fall.  It's taken a long time to complete this guitar but it came out so nicely, I had to include it here.   So please note, I can't take orders for this model anymore.  Anyone interested in a Valiant should contact PBG. (Go to the Valiant page for more info) 
   
   The guitar has a really pretty quilt top on a very figured Honduras Mahogany body.  The Mahogany and Maple neck has a Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard with my standard pearl inlays.  The pickups are Amalfitano Fullbuckers, which are coil tapped with the mini switch on the front of the guitar.  It has a TonePros bridge and Sperzel tuners with Ivoroid buttons.