| "APRIL" 2003 Fender American Deluxe Fat Strat, Rare Candy Tangerine. Alder body, rosewood fret board. |
| "CLARICE" 2004 Fender 57 Reissue Vintage Series Strat, in Ocean Turquoise. Nice maple neck with swamp ash body. |
| "LIPSTICK" 1967 Hagstrom III, Picked this up in a pawn shop in St. Robert, MO. w/ original case, whammy bar, and truss rod tool. |
| "VELVET" 2003 Veillette Gryphon Custom Purple w/ Black binding. Excellent playing and sounding Guitar. The quilt is beautiful. Thanks Joe. This is the very first purple Gryphon ever made. |
| "SAPPHIRE" 1994 ESP Vintage Plus Custom Shop Strat. Swamp Ash body, with Rio Grande Dual Calibrated Pickups. |
| "Number 1" 2003 Epiphone Les Paul Limited Edition. Flame top. Gibson Burstbucker Pro pickups, Alesandro 500k pots, Hovelland .022 MusiCap tone capacitors, Tone Pros Kluson locking tuners, Tone Pro's bridge w/ graphite saddles and a graphite nut. Chet Atkins bigsby arm. Weighs 10lbs. 1 0z. |
| "TIGRIS" 2002 Heritage H150 CM Ultra. What a beautiful Guitar, she plays great and sounds great too. Reminds me of the Joe Perry Bone yard Gibson is building, but Heritage doesn't put "tone chambers" in. |
| "CLOVER" 2003 Heritage H170 Custom Deluxe. This guitar looks great and has very long sustain. Sounds great too. Can you see the butterfly in the top? |
| "TSUNAMI" 2004 PRS Custom 22 Artist. Brazilian Mahogany body and neck, Brazilian rosewood fret board and headstock top. Artist top quilted whale blue, makes your eyes red just thinkin about it. |
| "MAC" 2002 PRS McCarty 10 Top Mahogany body and neck, Brazilian rosewood fret board. Orange Flame top is awesome. The picture does it no justice. It also has the Tone Pro's bridge. Thanks Brad. |
| "BLONDY" 2002 Heritage H-535. Seth lover Pickups. Tone Pro's Bridge, w/ a beautiful amber arch top. The flame on the front, back and sides is excellent and its framed in vintage cream binding on the top and back. |
| "GOLDY" 2002 HAMER Artist arch top Gold Top. Mahogany body and neck, Rosewood fret board, W / Rio Grande P-90 pickups. Tone Pro's bridge. |
| "AUTUMN" 1998 G&L ASAT Classic Custom. Will Ray autographed this guitar. Magnetic Field Design neck pickup, traditional size MFD bridge pickup. Solid swamp Ash body. Orange premier transparent finish. The birds eye maple neck is excellent. |
| "CRIMSON" 2004 Schecter PT-1 Custom Diamond Series telecaster. Tone pro's bridge. Nice quilt top. |
| "PLATYPUS" 1999 PRS Santana II. Mahogany body and neck, Brazilian rosewood fret board and headstock top. Artist top in flamed raspberry. Eagle inlay in the headstock with the Santana truss rod cover. |
| "CAYMAN" 2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard. Blue AAA Flame top. Plays nice, sounds good, and doesn't weigh much. |
| "AMETHYST" 1995 Washburn MG-122 Artist. Color Code is TPU for Transparent Purple. It features a solid mahogany body and bookmatched quilted maple top. 4 Bolt, quartersawn maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. Duncan '59 (neck) and Duncan Pearly Gates (bridge) pickups. Wilkinson VS-100 Bridge and Vintage nickel Gotoh locking tuners. The maple top is about 3/8ths of an inch thick and the quilt is excellant in the light. It doesn't look like much without a lot of light at an angle. But when the light catches it just so the top is stunning. It was new old stock when I bought it. List in 1995 was $1500.00. |
| "SHARK" Vaccaro X-Ray Bass, got this cheap in Albuquerque. The neck is straight and the chrome is mint. The wishbone headstock doesn't have a mark on it. |
| "MOLASSES" 1992 Heritage H150CM Ultra. This guitar is a true work of art. It's not the best looking guitar, but it sounds awesome. This guitar has a solid mahogany back, one piece mahogany neck and the top isn't shabby either. Weighs 10 lbs.. |
| "SUNSET" 1985 H140/150 finish prototype. No serial number on the back of the headstock. But there is a sticker in the pot cavity that reads H150 CM Proto. Nice Flame top weighs 10 lbs. Heritage Cherry burst. |
| "CHAI" 1994 ESP Vintage Plus Telecaster. Solid Swamp Ash body. Rio Grande Vintage Tallboy pickup in the neck and a Muy Grande in the bridge. Alesandro 250K pots and a vintage .05 Foil-in-oil Vitamin Q tone cap w/ a 680pF Silver Mica Cap and a 220k Carbon Comp resistor tone bleed network. |
| "COWBOY" Late 1989 Martin OMC-28E, Only 200 originally made. Rare, electric, 22 Fret cutaway version of the OMC series. I also have the original hard shell case. The guitar is in excellent condition and sounds wonderful. |
| "SAURON" 2007 Ibanez RG2610ZBK, 5 Pc. Wizard II Prestige Neck, Chrome Evolution Bridge Pickup, Z Bridge, Alessandro Pot and 560pF Silver Mica treble bleed capacitor. |
| "PHOENIX" Gibson Custom Shop 58 Hot-Rod Les Paul. 1 of 150. It's a 58 Les Paul VOS w/ translucent red maple flame top under a custom shop hot rod paint job. The color changing flames are painted using ppg harlequin paint which I was told costs about $50 an ounce. HOT ROD Magazine & the Gibson Guitar Company teamed up to create this limited-edition HOT ROD '58 Les Paul. This Gibson Custom 58 Hot Rod Les Paul features: One-piece mahogany neck with long tenon , Carved flamed maple top with painted flames, Solid, non-weight relieved mahogany back 22- fret rosewood fingerboard, Early '50s rounded neck profile Acrylic trapezoid inlays, Gold speed knobs, '57 Classic humbuckers Tailpipe-heat-oxidized blue covers, CTS pots and bumblebee capacitors Brushed chrome pickguard with engraved HOT ROD logo, Brushed chrome truss rod cover with engraved "58", Thin toggleswitch washer and jackplate, Nickel hardware, ABR-1 bridge, Lightweight aluminum stopbar, Single-ply cream body and neck binding, Holly headstock veneer, Vintage tulip tuners |
| "TEQUILA SUNRISE" 2007 (NOS) PRS Single Cut. The Top is a TEN. It has a Rosewood Neck. The model is listed as SCTREM with Wide Flat neck. The Neck has allot of red in the Rosewood which is Indian. Pickups are PRS-6, with a DOB of 10/09/07. Look at the Quilt on the carve lines from the neck pickup down basically there are four chevrons that stand out. This is a very nicely matched top. If the quilt was a bit more symetrical this may have been a Private Stock guitar. |
| "SPIKE" 2004 Jackson RR-3. Mint guitar, very well cared for by the previous owner. This is one of the original Pro Series Japanese guitars. All original with all the original parts as well. Blue Flame on basswood body. Thanks Jason V. |
| "ROJO" 2005 PRS Custom 24 Special Edition 20th Anniversary w/Artist Package, Flamed maple 10 Top, with all the case candy. Finish is Cherry, Mahogany Neck and Body, Brazilian Rosewood Board, Paua Logo Inlay, Paua Birds in Flight Inlay, 20th truss rod cover, Wide/Thin Neck Carve, HFS Bridge Pickup, Vintage Neck Pickup, 5-Way Rotary Pickup Selector, 1 Volume, 1 Tone, PRS Tremolo Bridge, 14 to 1 Low Mass Locking Tuners, 24 Frets, 10" Radius, Leather Clad Case |
| "SWAMP THING" 2010 Warmoth Custom Stratocaster; the body is a 2 pc. Swamp Ash body with an AAAA Quilted Maple top. This showcase body was named "Swamp Thing" by the folks at Warmoth. Looks awesome in person, up close it looks significantly better than the pictures on the showcase site. I installed the Warmoth custom made Vintage Modern profile, highly figured Birdseye Maple neck. It has a 9.5" radius and is a “Fat Back” with stainless steel 6230 Frets and Sprezel 25/64ths tuner holes. The machine heads I installed are Tone Pros chrome six in line Kluson’s w/ chrome locks (Kluson part number TPKF6BL-C). I also added chrome string trees on the neck which is finished with Abalone dots and a Graph- tech Black Tusq XL nut and Nitro-cellulose clear satin. Warmoth performed a magnificent job on the neck it’s flawless. The body was prepped for a Fender American standard bridge so I bought one from Warmoth before I found Callaham and DeTemple. I made the pick guard from aluminum plate with a minimalist approach. I countersunk the 5 Way switch holes and I used a V-T-T pick guard as the pattern. I installed a set of Rio Grande Dual Calibrated strat pickups with chrome covers and chrome single coil rings from Guitar Parts Resource. I added a Callaham Cryo treated 5-way switch topped with an Armadillo guitars polished aluminum barrel switch tip. I also upgraded the Fender Tremolo with a DeTemple American Standard premium titanium trem block with DeTemple titanium offset saddles. I also purchased a distressed El Dorado brown leather strap from DeTemple, Mike and his daughter Annie are very nice folks. I finished the tremolo with a Callaham David Gilmore extra short trem arm topped with a polished aluminum tip from Frets on the net. I installed three 250K Ohm Alessandro split shaft guitar pots and a NOS vintage Vitamin Q .033 Mfd tone cap I have been sitting on. I used vintage cloth-covered (waxed) wire to complete the wiring job. I added a Callaham chrome jack plate, and copper shield tape in the cavity. I used stock fender trem springs to go with a Tremolo-no till she’s properly broken in. I installed a switchcraft mono 1/4" input jack in the jack plate. I added Schaler strap locks to complete the strap. She’s strung with DR Pure Blues nickel 10’s. I picked up a G&G Premium Fender Stratocaster chocolate alligator case with tan leather trim and handle while the inside of the case is dressed in “luxurious 60’s porn” tiger stripped pale orange velvet crush. |
All GUIT-FIDDELS named by my
16 year old genius daughter
Kaci. She really is a genius. And
she's a great kid too.
16 year old genius daughter
Kaci. She really is a genius. And
she's a great kid too.
| "Tyrian Crocus" 1994 ESP M-II Deluxe, ESP Custom Shop Guitar. Made in February 1994. Q-sawn maple neck, Original Floyd Rose double locking trem. Near mint condition. Bought it for $500 plus original case. Hair Metal Heaven. More Specs soon. |
