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Body: Shell Pink T
Woods: Swamp Ash body, Eastern Birdseye Maple neck, Black Walnut skunk stripe.
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Construction Details: Thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish in Shell Pink. Body carved with tummy tuck. Medium C neck carve with 1 11/16″ nut width. Hand wound pickups – gold foil neck pickup with adjustable magnetic poles, high spec CTS pots, standard 3-way wiring, Gavin pushback wiring, full EMI shielding, Russian NOS cap, Glendale USA bridge with staggered brass saddles. Hipshot staggered locking tuners with oval buttons to match vintage look. Morelli Guitars neck plate, Headstock shot in matching Shell Pink, with custom painted silver logos. Weighs 8 lbs.
Notes: 100% American-made components. A duet, made in tandem with a matching Strat. Incredibly smooth playing – perfect fret level, with frets finished to a high polish. Matching pink hard case. Matching Couch strap.
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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.
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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 (0.940″ 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 $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: 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: Reynolds Concert Grande
Woods: Eastern Hard Birdseye Curly Maple, Alaskan Yellow Spruce, Eastern Hard Birdseye Curly Maple neck, Black and White Ebony fingerboard and bridge, Amboyna Burl headplate, backstrap and tie block, Bloodwood binding and internal structure.
Construction Details: 650mm. 18-hole bridge. Flamenco braced Swiss Moon Spruce, Bloodwood bracing and lining, Reynolds C Block architecture neck block in Honduran Mahogany, Carbon fiber reinforced neck, 3-piece heel stack, headstock veneer and backstrap in flitch cut Amboyna Burl. German Rubner tuners with Ivoroid buttons. Evo fret wire, Water Buffalo bone nut and saddle.
Notes: This flamenco, designed for a client with a powerful singing voice, demonstrates how a luthier can intersect tradition with a unique set of woods. A flamboyant look for this guitar combines highly figured local maple with rare exotic woods. The Black and White Ebony bridge has an Amboyna Burl tie block finished off with black Buffalo horn, and employs an 18 hole string set which locks the string ends in place and ensures no dreaded string slap. A bright sound in maple, tempered by the cedar top, the full-depth body projects loudly. Quick note decay maintains a clear sound against the volume produced by this instrument. Finished in nitrocellulose lacquer.
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Body: Private Stock Homage 24
Woods: Honduran Mahogany with Eastern Hard Curly Maple Top
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Construction Details: This guitar’s owner is a PRS fan but desired a variety of special details. Hand carved top with profound relief and recurve. Morelli headstock, backstrap and heel treatment in Curly and Birdseye Maple. Magnetic back electronic compartment in Mahogany. Mojotone Classic pickups with 3-way wiring, Russian PIO cap and high-spec CTS pots. Hipshot Baby Grand bridge and locking tuners. Archtop style strap pickup jack in a solid body configuration. Thin nitrocellulose lacquer with a custom mixed iridescent, translucent blue-green burst finish. Jescar Evo gold frets over bookmatched Ziricote 24-fret fingerboard. Faux binding on top, headstock, backstrap, and heel.
Notes: A one-of-a-kind tribute to the legendary private stock guitars.
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Body: Curly Maple Blue Flame T
Woods: Curly Maple and Alder body, Eastern Hard Curly Maple neck.
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Construction Details: Exhibition grade Curly Maple top over a chambered Alder body. Thin nitrocellulose lacquer with a multi-pass tinted stain method which creates a one-of-a-kind finish. Incredible depth of finish. Rear body shot in a custom Mary Kaye translucent white, showing the Alder figure. Eastern Hard Curly Maple neck, with a nitrocellulose lacquer tinted amber finish. Modern C neck carve, bone nut. Charlie Christian style neck pickup wound by Pete Biltoft and a Mojotone two-face bridge pickup wound by Nick Eldred, with adjustable bass-side poles. 3-way wiring with some special sauce makes the tone pot the most articulate range I’ve heard. CTS pots, Russian PIO capacitor, and Switchcraft jack all connected with vintage wire. Extensive shielding makes this a whisper quiet single coil guitar. Bridge and control plate by Mark Rutters. Heavy, vintage round knob controls. Hipshot staggered locking tuners with oval buttons to match vintage look. Morelli backplate and color-matched, transparent headstock logo, custom hybrid-style blue pearloid pickguard. Weighs 6 lbs. 6 oz.
Notes: This is a one-of-a-kind Tele style guitar. Incredible sound from a unique set of pickups and wiring. Matching Souldier hand-sewn strap.
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Body: Black Limba S
Woods: Black Limba, Eastern Hard Curly Maple and Rosewood neck.
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Construction Details: Highly figured Black Limba body. Thin nitrocellulose lacquer shot over an orange amber french polish. The neck is finished with a unique vintage relic technique in French Polish, which I developed in response to clients desiring a thin, natural finish which quickly shows age.
Eastern Hard Curly Maple neck with highly figured Rosewood fretboard and abalone fret markers. Fat C neck carve, bone nut. Pickups are hand-wound to tonally match an exceptional set of 1954 Stratocaster pickups. High spec CTS pots, Superswitch 5-way wiring. Clear pickguard setting off the stunning woodgrain. High accuracy, smooth Hipshot Contour Tremolo bridge with steel block, black Hipshot staggered locking tuners with oval buttons. Morelli backplate and color-matched, headstock logo. Buffalo horn volume and tone knobs. Completely enclosed shielding and reverse wound middle pickup make this guitar whisper quiet on stage.
Notes: French Polish provides an ultra smooth and ultra thin neck finish. Fret level and crown with frets finished to a high polish.
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Body: P90 Tea Burst T
Woods: Curly Maple and Alder body, Eastern Hard Curly Maple neck.
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Construction Details: Curly maple top over a chambered Alder body. Thin nitrocellulose lacquer custom mixed to create a stunning tea burst translucent finish. Killer Eastern Hard Curly Maple neck. Modern C neck carve, bone nut, with durable polish finish to keep the curly fretboard clean for many years. Custom-spec’d hand-wound P90 neck pickup and matching adjustable pole tele bridge pickup. 3-way wiring with some special sauce makes the tone pot the most articulate range I’ve heard. CTS pots, Russian PIO capacitor, and Switchcraft jack all connected with vintage wire. Extensive shielding makes this a whisper quiet single coil guitar. Heavy, rounded knob controls. Joe Barden steel bridge with upgraded intonated brass saddles. Hipshot staggered locking tuners with oval buttons to match vintage look. Morelli backplate and color-matched, transparent headstock logo. Weighs 6 lbs. 5 oz.
Notes: Incredibly smooth playing – perfect fret level, with frets finished to a high polish. High-end Fender ABS hardshell case. This is a stunning tele with serious P90 punch. Matching Couch brown strap.
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Body: Burgundy Mist Metallic T
Woods: Alder body, Eastern Hard Curly Maple neck.
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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.