Custom Guitars
Designing and building guitars is a passion that combines equal elements art, design, music, and woodworking. It represents the culmination of my interests and skillsets, and ultimately the thing that creatively sustains me.
No. 4 – aka “The Blue Dragon”
This guitar is a fully custom design that represents years of trial and error, learnings, and refinement. The body is hand-carved solid black walnut with a beveled curly maple topsheet and pickguard. The treatment is a two-step dye process (black and blue) with a hand rubbed satin topcoat finish. The neck is hand-carved hard maple with a Bolivian rosewood fretboard and abalone inlays. It pairs an unpotted PAF humbucker in the neck position with a potted overwound humbucker in the bridge, for a range of vintage and modern voicings.
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This guitar is a fully custom design that represents years of trial and error, learnings, and refinement. The body is hand-carved solid black walnut with a beveled curly maple topsheet and pickguard. The treatment is a two-step dye process (black and blue) with a hand rubbed satin topcoat finish. The neck is hand-carved hard maple with a Bolivian rosewood fretboard and abalone inlays. It pairs an unpotted PAF humbucker in the neck position with a potted overwound humbucker in the bridge, for a range of vintage and modern voicings.
No. 3 – aka “Lestrat”
This is a custom designed, contoured solid body crafted from 100% bookmatched black walnut with a tobacco burst dye and hand-rubbed satin topcoat finish. The pick guard is curly maple, and is fitted with an unpotted PAF humbucker and single coil pickup for a range that covers vintage Les Paul and Strat voicings. The neck is hand carved maple with a Bolivian rosewood fretboard and abalone inlays.
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This is a custom designed, contoured solid body crafted from 100% bookmatched black walnut with a tobacco burst dye and hand-rubbed satin topcoat finish. The pick guard is curly maple, and is fitted with an unpotted PAF humbucker and single coil pickup for a range that covers vintage Les Paul and Strat voicings. The neck is hand carved maple with a Bolivian rosewood fretboard and abalone inlays.
No. 2 – aka “The Sunset”
This is a custom profile solid body proportioned to a Tele but with Strat style front and back contours, contoured cutaways, and Les Paul sound thanks to dual PAF humbuckers. It is a laminate of maple, birch, cherry, and black walnut finished with nitro, a CBS neck, hard tail bridge, standard Tele controls, and a walnut pickguard.
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This is a custom profile solid body proportioned to a Tele but with Strat style front and back contours, contoured cutaways, and Les Paul sound thanks to dual PAF humbuckers. It is a laminate of maple, birch, cherry, and black walnut finished with nitro, a CBS neck, hard tail bridge, standard Tele controls, and a walnut pickguard.
No. 1 – aka“Twinline”
This is a semi-hollow body based on the Thinline Tele, but has a custom profile with dual cutaways, a Rickenbacker slash-style f-hole, and a hand-rubbed urethane finish. It is made from 100% black walnut with a bookmatched top sheet, uses Fender wide-range humbuckers, ‘72 reissue Fender hardware, and a CBS neck.
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This is a semi-hollow body based on the Thinline Tele, but has a custom profile with dual cutaways, a Rickenbacker slash-style f-hole, and a hand-rubbed urethane finish. It is made from 100% black walnut with a bookmatched top sheet, uses Fender wide-range humbuckers, ‘72 reissue Fender hardware, and a CBS neck.
