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G0817 'Equation'

Mahogany body, Maple neck w/Ziricote fingerboard and headstock overlay.  Lollar Imperial in the bridge, Lollar minihumbucker in the middle and BoneTop P-90 in the neck position.  Hipshot tremolo and Gotho vintage-style locking tuners.

coming soon

 

G0818 'Key of Desire'

Mahogany body, Mahogany neck w/Rosewood fingerboard.  'BoneTop' P-90 pickup configuration. 

 

0819 'Boxtube'

Mahogany body, Mahogany neck w/Rosewood fingerboard.  'BoneTop' P-90 pickup configuration. Wilkinson adjustable stoptail bridge.

 

G0820 'Songlines II'

coming soon

 

G0821 'Beachwalk Yellow'

coming soon

 

G0822 'Last Chance'

G0823 'Sweet Melody'

G0824 'Sacred (African Queen)'

'Sacred' has a 27" longscale neck tuned to D.  The vintage clear-bobbin Gibson P-90 with striking green windings combines with a Graph-Tech piezo/hexaphonic "Ghost" system with 13-pin output.  The neck is Wenge (excellent wood for low-midrange tones) with a Bocote fingerboard.  The body is Mahogany.  The controls are grouped according to function - the hexaphonic volume and up-down controls on the upper bout and lower horn, the piezo/magnetic combination on the lower bout.

 

G0825 'Indulge Me'

G0826 'Red Velvet'

coming soon

 

B 0827 'Eyeful'

coming soon

 

G0828 'Rys'

Rys Olsen sacrificed an older original Steve Klein body to be 'totemized'.  With the blessings of Steve Klein I modified the body, adding art Rys had sent me, and replaced the  Steinberger graphite neck with a one-piece Rosewood neck, based on an old original Klein neck I had in hand.  A 'BoneTop' pickup drives the Sustainiac.

 

G0829 'Woody'

Woody Aplanalp's second commission (the first is "Woody's Empress", G 0107) is themed 'Tiki'.  The electronics are simpler this time - a Fernandes Sustainer and a Lollar Imperial humbucker /minihumbucker combination with two military-grade kill switches.  Shark's teeth are inlaid in the fingerboard.  Mahogany body with Cedar top, bird's eye Maple neck w/ Cocobolo fingerboard.

 

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G0830 'Seasidesong'

Lollar minihumbucker in the neck, Tele special in the bridge. Mahogany body.  Maple neck w/ Rosewood fingerboard.

 

G0831 'V8'

Peter Florance 'Voodoo' Strat set.  Alder body, Maple neck w/ Rosewood fingerboard.  Vintage style Gotho steel block tremolo.

G0832 'Black Buddha'

G0833 'Tick Tock'

Mahogany body, Mahogany neck w/Rosewood fingerboard.  'BoneTop' Tele/P-90 pickup configuration.

 

G0834 'Voodoo IV'

Mahogany body, Mahogany neck w/Rosewood fingerboard.  'BoneTop' Tele/P-90 pickup configuration.

 

G0835 'Family Jewels'

Mahogany body, Mahogany neck w/Ziricote fingerboard and headstock overlay.  The humbucker in the Spalt custom bridge drives a Sustainiac circuit.

 

G0836 'Voodoo V'

Mahogany body, Maple neck w/Bloodwood fingerboard and headstock overlay.  'BoneTop' Tele/P-90 combination.

 

G0837 'Vivaldi's Nightmare'

Mahogany body, Maple neck w/Rosewood fingerboard.  A cello headstock and scroll, sliced in half, form the centerpiece of this guitar.  A trio of 'BoneTop' pickups are controlled via a rotary switch along with volume and tone pots.

 

0838 '2 is Better than One'

Unfinished.  Mahogany body

 

G0839 'V8.2'

I had the two vintage Guild pickups, a fullsize humbucker and a minihumbucker, for a while until I decided to combine them in this guitar.  Their slick chrome surface called for some shiny brightwork and the massive vintage Ford hood ornament supplied the string-through guide, with the strings passing through tubes to the string anchor machined from aluminum on the back of the guitar. Swamp Ash body w/Padouk centerstripe.  Zebrawood neck w/Purpleheart fingerboard.

 

 

 

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