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Body: D-42 Brazilian Rosewood Pre-War Homage
Woods: Very old and rare master grade Brazilian Rosewood. Mastergrade old-growth Adirondack Spruce. Honduran Mahogany neck, Adirondack bracing. Bridge, fretboard, and headplate Brazilian Rosewood.
Construction Details: This is a D-42 12-fret built to dreadnought pre-war specs, from tracings of original period Martins. An homage second to none. Grained nitrocellulose binding, and the most vivid handpicked abalone shell frame this stunning instrument. Mastergrade old-growth Adirondack spruce has even grain spacing across the top – a characteristic rarely seen in Adirondack spruce guitars built in the last sixty years. The Brazilian Rosewood presents incredible color depth with old-growth landscape ink in the sides, as one would expect a pre-war 42 or 45 series instrument to possess. Extremely dark Brazilian Rosewood is used in place of ebony, for the bridge and fretboard, to improve the guitar’s sonoral presentation. The headstock, inlaid with a traditional abalone flower pot, is beautifully bound in nitrocellulose binding encasing the heavily landscaped Brazilian Rosewood headplate. Pre-war scalloped Adirondack spruce bracing pattern. Period correct center strip in the backset. Based on an early 40’s Martin, the neck specifications reproduce the soft-v neck profile and volute.
Stainless steel frets and a hidden bolt-on neck ensure a lifetime ability to maintain this instrument in top shape. The bolt-on neck block is carefully made with a front face plate which hides the bolts and maintains an internal original look. Waverly tuners with ivoroid buttons. Nitrocellulose pickguard. Sound reinforcement is a custom configuration – LR Baggs Anthem with Tru-mic, coupled with 3 piezo elements mounted on the bridge plate in place of a UST. This allows for a full microphone/piezo pickup system without the interference of a UST under the through saddle.
A sonoral powerhouse, this guitar sounds as good as it looks. Powerful, balanced, with a fast attack and projection. Trebles are bright, the mid-tones lush, and the bass powerful and tight.
Notes: This is a one-of-a-kind dreadnought. Search far and wide, the woods are simply no longer available, and craftsmanship in an instrument like this comes along once in a while. This was a 2-year pursuit of mine, with attention to every detail. Comes protected in a Hiscox case.
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Body: Tobacco Burst 1959 ES-335 Homage
Woods: Curly Maple 4-ply body, Maple center block with Spruce spacers, Honduran Mahogany neck, Brazilian Rosewood fretboard, Holly headstock.
Wiring Diagram: Click Here.
Construction Details: A faithful recreation, aged to look the part. Created to replicate a 1959 ES-335 played for a few years and then stored in a closet. I perform many vintage restorations, which makes the aging on this instrument very faithful. This guitar is a sonoral powerhouse. Carefully executed in details faithfully following the 1959 model year.
Original Maple 4-ply body design, maple sourced from the same Michigan mill Gibson used back in 1959, with dimensions typical of the ’59 model year, including a juicy fat neck (0.940″ at the 1st fret), old Brazilian Rosewood thin-bound fretboard. Many ’59 correct details from pickguard to inlays to dimensions. Thin high VOC nitrocellulose lacquer, tinted for age.
Custom wound ’59 replica pickups unpotted with A2 AlNiCo neck and A4 AlNiCo bridge pickups, 7% tolerance vintage taper CTS pots, NOS PIO Russian capacitors, Switchcraft hardware and Gavin pushback wire creates an unmistakable vintage tone. Incredible resonance and sustain. Lush neck pickup provides smooth jazz tones, depth for the blues, or bridge pickup to punch out rock-n-roll.
Extensive nitro lacquer finish work to replicate the finest example of a period, pear-shaped 3-color tobacco burst. Constructed with fish glue – which is a variation of hot hide glue. An original ’59 like this would cost $80,000 … not practical except for the collector, and certainly a difficult guitar to take on stage. Here’s a rare chance to have the tone, look, and feel of the original at a fraction of the cost.
Notes: Subtle invisible upgrades – carbon fiber reinforced headstock/neck transition to ensure, unlike a Gibson, that this guitar never breaks a headstock. Dual action truss rod, EMI paint to minimize noise on stage. Comes in an SKB TSA case, matching Walker & Williams padded leather strap, and pure nickel 11-51 strings.
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Body: Cherry Red 1959 ES-335 Homage
Woods: Curly Maple 4-ply body, Maple center block with Spruce spacers, Honduran Mahogany neck, Brazilian Rosewood fretboard, Holly headstock.
Wiring Diagram: Click Here.
Construction Details: A faithful recreation, aged to look the part. Created to replicate a 1959 ES-335 played for a few years and then stored in a closet. I do many vintage restorations, which makes the aging on this instrument very faithful. This guitar is a sonoral powerhouse. Carefully executed in details faithfully following the 1959 model year, with components aged accordingly.
Original Maple 4-ply body design, maple sourced from the same Michigan mill Gibson used back in 1959, with dimensions typical of the ’59 model year, including a juicy fat neck (0.960″ at the 1st fret), old Brazilian Rosewood thin-bound fretboard. Many ’59 correct details from pickguard to inlays to dimensions. Thin high VOC nitrocellulose lacquer, tinted for age.
Custom wound ’59 replica pickups unpotted with A2 AlNiCo neck and A4 AlNiCo bridge pickups, 7% tolerance vintage taper CTS pots, NOS PIO Russian capacitors, Switchcraft hardware and Gavin pushback wire creates an unmistakable vintage tone. Incredible resonance and sustain. Lush neck pickup provides smooth jazz tones, depth for the blues, or bridge pickup to punch out rock-n-roll.
Extensive nitro lacquer finish work to replicate a UV Cherry Red finish, as a ’59 would show today. Constructed with fish glue – which is a variation of hot hide glue. An original ’59 like this would cost $40,000 … not practical except for the collector, and certainly a difficult guitar to take on stage. Here’s a rare chance to have the tone, look, and feel of the original at a fraction of the cost.
Notes: Subtle invisible upgrades – carbon fiber reinforced headstock/neck transition to ensure, unlike a Gibson, that this guitar never breaks a headstock. Dual action truss rod, EMI paint to minimize noise on stage. Comes in an SKB TSA case, matching Walker & Williams padded leather strap, and pure nickel 11-51 strings.
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Body: Burgundy Mist Metallic T
Woods: Alder body, Eastern Hard Curly Maple neck.
Wiring Diagram: Click Here.
Construction Details: Thin nitrocellulose lacquer in mid-sixties Burgundy Mist Metallic. Modern C neck carve, bone nut, thin lacquer neck finish. Custom-spec’d hand-wound tele tall blues pickups, high spec CTS pots, standard 3-way wiring, heavy, early-style controls. Callaham steel bridge with staggered brass saddles. Hipshot staggered locking tuners with oval buttons to match vintage look. Morelli backplate and color-matched, transparent headstock logo. Weighs 8 lbs. 7 oz.
Notes: 100% American-made components. Incredibly smooth playing – perfect fret level, with frets finished to a high polish. Included – tweed hardshell case and Couch Teal strap.