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G9925 'Vanilla Chocolate'

Mahogany body, Rosewood neck.  Seymour Duncan '59, ABM roller bridge, Bigsby tremolo and Sperzel locking tuners.  The top is an old Redwood board.

 

G9926 'Flaguitar# 10'

This guitar combines a Sustainiac with Graph-Tech piezos and magnetic pickups.

 

G9931 'Totem'

This is the guitar which gave rise to the 'Totemguitars' moniker.  A early 80's Squire Strat (some of the best Strats ever made, by the way) modified with an Abalone pickguard, Abalone pickup covers and extensive body carvings inspired by North Coast Indian art.

 

G9932 'Flaguitar # 11 - Eye For An Eye''

X9935 'Oedipus NoRex'

G9937 'Tiger'

G9939 'Eyerose'

G9942 'Schecter's Burn'

Schecter commissioned me to make a body for one of their NAMM showpiece guitars.  It was based on a 7-string Scorpion model.  Unfortunately it suffered an accident - I had used a lamp in the resin curing box to speed up the curing and it had caught fire.  There was enough damage to the body to preclude it from being used as a 7-string.  I decided to make another one - G9943 below.  This body languished for a while until it was presented at the 2005 NAMM show - in a 6-string configuration.  It made the NAMM-Oddities that year, just like the first one had in 2000.  Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of it except for this one from the oddities website - and the photos taken after the burn.

 

G 9943 'Schecter's NAMM special'

This was the second guitar I made for Schecter.  I was way behind schedule, due to the accident which befell the first body.  It was finished just in time for the show.  The catalogue for the year however still shows the unfinished guitar, without bridge or pickup.  The moving gauge and  tuner with LEDs incorporated in the top were very popular and have since been copied frequently.

 

Leo Skala with the completed guitar at the Schecter booth, NAMM 2000.

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