Electric Guitars
A small selection of electric guitars which shows how some customers have adapted standard designs to suit them while others have gone the full custom route.
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Tim wanted a guitar with a familiar shape and with familiar features but he also wanted more. He wanted a chambered body so the dense sapele core is sigificantly hollowed out. He wanted a one piece figured maple top rather than the usual two pieces bookmatched. More than that he…
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David took the idea of the ASAD and adjusted it to suit his needs. What has he done? The scale length is 25" with 22 frets, the trem is the non locking Schaller Vintage (which mounts on two studs and knife edges with roller saddles), the controls have been moved…
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Pretty or what? A thin bookmatched overlay of Rio rosewood onto a quartersawn Irish sycamore body (with a bit of figure too). The contrast of the dark heartwood and the cream sapwood (blending into the cream of the sycamore around the edge) makes for dramatic looks. Pickups are Seymour Duncan…
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Klaus-Peter ordered this ASAD 2HB Custom in flamed maple finished in CLC Blue. The neck is a laminate of mahogany and flamed maple and the rosewood fingerboard has a single red star inlaid on the 12th fret as the only marker. The Schaller LoPro trem sits close to the body…
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This is a 1986 Razer guitar, a model that was discontinued a short while after this date. The highly sculpted top is padauk which has changed colour from the the original vivid red to a rich brown. Lovely Brazillian mahogany for the body and the neck (hard to find that…
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Robin's ASAP Solid 12 string. Robin has an ASAP Solid six string with MIDI that he uses as his main onstage guitar but he wanted a 12 for certain numbers. Finished in dramatic gloss black (a bugger to photograph!) the body is alder (hollowed out to keep the weight down)…
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Robin's ASAP Solid Steel with MIDI. Robin has a one man stage show where he needs the look and sound of an acoustic guitar at high volumes. The ASAP Solid Steel fits the bill for this as the design resists feedback well and the face shape is the same dimensions…
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Ciaran, a music teacher, has been a friend for years and was lucky enough to pick up one of my basses secondhand for a good price some years ago. More recently he asked me about buying this guitar which had been sitting in the workshop store since 1989 and was…
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Jean-Marie's guitar is an interesting combination of ideas. The mahogany body is faced with a deeply arched top of fine flamed maple - sustains for weeks! The unlacquered neck is very chunky in form, constructed from birdseye maple and glued into the body. The carved top and headstock veneer are…
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Hi Chris,Well it arrived this morning, and suffice to say I have very tender and ripped fingers right now… I'll write down my first impressions, so you can get an idea as to how I regard the guitar, and so you can give yourself a pat on the back! Of…
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