Happy new year 2011, year of the Rabbit.
Multiply, multiply, multiply....
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| THOMAS AMBERGER BLUE THINLINE |
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Another thinline beauty from Thomas Amberger which showcases Schaller's newest Satin Pearl finish. It's a tough, state of the art finish which looks incredible. You can go to this LINK for more info.
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Al Chan and Sean Saylor playing the ZZ Top song "Tush" and then a blues jam at Saylor's Restaurant in Sausalito. Sean is playing a guitar I put together for him and which I had finally delivered to him the day before. It's got a basswood body with a quilted maple cap and a quartersawn maple neck with an ebony fingerboard, and EVH Frankenstein/Wolfgang humbucker pickups. The body and the neck were ordered from USA Custom Guitars who will rout any body shape for the Hannes Bridge. I highly recommend them.
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| HUFSCHMID FIREDROID |
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Patrick Hufschmid has designed a new model, the Firedroid, which is a modern version of the Firebird. It has a one piece, premium grade sapelli mahogany body, and a premium grade sipo neck with a west African ebony fingerboard. The pickups are custom Hufschmid pickups. There are more pictures on Patrick's web site.
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| STINNETT CUSTOM GUITAR |
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This well designed beauty is from Will Stinnett, the builder behind Stinnett Guitars out of Kentucky. It has a mahogany body with a claro walnut cap. The 25.5" scale neck extending through the body is a five piece wenge/mahogany combo with a 10" to 14" radius ziricote fretboard and with twenty seven jumbo stainless steel frets. Add Bareknuckle Nailbomb and Trilogy pickups at the bridge and neck, a five way switch with split pickup options, and you've got yourself an amazing guitar!
Here's a VIDEO of Will doing a demo with the guitar before shipping it out.
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| WEISSE HUGEL KORALLE MODEL |
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I've had the good fortune of living a few years in Spain when I was a teenager. I bought a classical guitar in Madrid when I was sixteen. It was my first guitar and it had to be one of the happiest days of my life. I am therefore particularly thrilled by what Joan Manel Ruiz of Weisse Hugel, a builder out of Barcelona, Spain, is doing with the Hannes Bridge. He uses the bridge exclusively on all of his 24.75" scale fixed bridge models, the solid body Koralle, the semi hollow Amathone and the hollow Amathone Jazz.
The complete specs for the innovative Koralle pictured above can be viewed HERE. It's a masterpiece which could only have been designed by someone who has been building guitars for more than fifty years. It has a graphite neck with a 1.70" nut width and the nut can be adjusted for each string length. It's a custom system and the humbuckers are also custom hand wound on site. The versatility of this guitar is truly amazing as can be heard on a variety of DEMOS done by players such as Vincent Fillatreau, Albert Cubero and Tony Carmona playing a solo version of Sultans Of Swing.
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| MAYONES REGIUS MODEL |
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Mayones Guitars, based out of Poland, is one of the major European guitar manufacturers. This great guitar called the Regius 6 Mosaic is one of the models for their 2011 Master Builder Collection. It is mainly made out of mahogany and has a 25.4" scale length.
For complete specs go to this LINK.
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| SCHECTER CUSTOM SHOP "HOLLYWOOD" |
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This beauty is from the Schecter Custom Shop. The Hollywood model!
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| BLACK MESA SPECTRA |
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Clint Doughterty is the builder for Black Mesa Guitars and the Spectra is one of his newer models.
A while ago he was inspired by an American Lutherie magazine article from RM Mottola who did an experiment to find out which of the three neck attachments (neck-through or bolt-on or glued) produced the better sound. Mottola discovered that bolt-on designs "offer superior resonance and sustain around the fundamental and successive harmonics". The article led Clint to try to perfect the bolt-on design and he came up with the TorsionLogic neck which is a rear mounted bolt-on which gives you better access to the higher frets. This allows you to combine traditional body styles, such as the Tele, with twenty-four fret necks. And it also means that the neck applies its torsion on the back of the body instead of the top of the body, allowing for less pull on the bolts.
Here's the specs for this retro-future beauty:
Body: chambered mahogany
Top: bookmatched spalted maple
Neck: 24.75" scale TorsionLogic™ sapele
Fretboard: macassar ebony
Frets: stainless medium-jumbo
Pickups: WCR Fillmore humbuckers
Controls: TBD
Hardware: black Hannes bridge, black Steinberger tuners, black Dunlop Flush Mount Strap Locks
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| ROMAN RIST |
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This is a new guitar from Roman Rist. It's the Ristocaster!
It has a mahogany body with a black walnut top, a maple neck with an ebony fingerboard and Bill Lawrence Wilde L-90 pickups with a Q-filter.
These pickups are very hot but give you an impressive range of sounds which is expertly demonstrated by Marc Cooper in this VIDEO.
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| MORIAH GUITARWORKS |
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Moriah Guitarworks are now featured by Destroy All Guitars. For those who are looking for top notch boutique guitars Destroy All Guitars is it. Their selection of guitars is out of this world!
Lance Keltner did a VIDEO for them with the Zadok model on the right of the picture.
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| HEAVEN GUITARS |
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Alexandre Bourdonnais is the builder behind Heaven guitars, located just outside of Paris. He not only builds electrics but he will also build classical and steel-string guitars for you and all his guitars have a distintive flair. Heavenly...
The guitar on the left has twenty four fret, a mahogany neck and body with a maple top and an ebony fingerboard. The pickups are Rio Grande P90 at the neck and Motherbucker at the bridge. The zebrano and mahogany guitar on the right is completely different except for the body and headstock shapes. The body is only 1.46" thick, it has twenty two frets and a Sustainer FSK 401.
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