Nice Rosewood strat. My first attempt at making a custom body. Turns out that I am allergic to Rosewood, really allergic. Like cortisone allergic. This guitar was donated and brought in $700 for a local non-prof.
Carved top Tele with a Charlie Christian neck PU and a P-90 bridge PU. High figure maple top
Custom Tele with 'F' hole and white binding. Charlie Christian neck PU and a P-90 bridge PU.
Very difficult guitar to make given the straight sections between the horns. This is the Whale Guitar with custom inlays. Highly figured carved maple top. Reversed maple neck with custom shell dots.
Almost completed custom Carvin bass now played by a professional musician.
Custom Strat using original Fender neck. Note that PUs are routed into the figured maple unlike a standard Strat that uses a plastic pickguard for mounting. Fender Noiseless PUs with Clapton mid-range boost.
Another picture of the Whale Guitar and its uniques shape.
A D-28 style acoustic made from American Cherry with a spruce top. Fishman in-bridge PU for amplification on occasion. My first acoustic project and my personal player.
A true Cigar Box slide guitar with tele neck PU.
A custom 'Cigar Box' guitar with Fender neck and Seymore Duncan Pearly Gates PU.
Custom hand carved Archtop using Oregon White Cedar. Sounds great!
Though I did not build this guitar, I did add significant electronics. It has a killer hot sound and a cool toilet seat pickguard. This guitar was donated and sold for $1150 for our schools.
Second guitar made with a through-the-neck construction. It came out very heavy as I made it out of some weird wood. Eventually the inferior blue dye faded and the guitar is now parts. I learned a lot from this first full design and construction project.
This guitar is of my own design. My niece has it now.
The latest creation built with Warmoth body and neck. Though the guitar looks like a Les Paul it actually has tele pick-ups in custom settings. (Another donated guitar that brought in $800 for our schools.)
This Hot Rod Strat was donated to a non-prof and fetched over $1000 at their annual auction.
This beautiful custom Tele is made from Swamp Ash, has Pete Biltoft hand wound pick ups and is incredibly heavy. Talk about tele twang and sustain!!!
Gave this Road Warrior to my guitar coach for his live gigs. Custom pickups and plays great.
This is a great color that took about 30 coats to lacquer to build a great Campbell’s Soup Red. Custom electronics. Very cool!
This is ‘Bark’ my gitter mule. Made from unexpected wood with bark attached. The pick up bay allows for quick changes and the acoustic style bridge has a Fishman under saddle pick up the feeds simultaneous acoustic sound to one and while electric sounds to my Mesa Boogie. Very ‘unplugged’.
Took this baby on the Alaska cruise. Has a custom thinline pick up from Pete which feeds a headphone amp when traveling. Really fun.
Here is 'Rose' a second D-28 being made for a freind. (I'll have to get a picture of the mature Rose on of these days.)
One of the most unusual Strats you will see. Ocean Turquois with all gold hardware.
