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Welcome to my slowly-evolving website. I'm back into building after a lengthy hiatus, ready to build the next generation of guitars and basses, and I'm really excited to get some new designs going and incorporate some hi-tech as well as organic materials from the area. (Muskoka) Whenever possible, I'll make my own parts, including materials like wood, stone, deer antler; all things I can find outside my door.
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I'm really inspired by living on 20 acres of mature forest in north Muskoka in a 100+ year old converted barn, and I've been cutting and squirreling away some wood these past 5 years, and I'm focussing especially on spalted, crotch, burl, and stump wood, which all have their unique beauty.
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATION-FREE ZONE All my instruments carry a LIFETIME transferable warranty and certificate of origin, and come with a guitar-specific owner'sguide. I do that becauseI think they'll last forever; and if they don't, I want to know about it! I build them to be tough, strong, and extremely serviceable and guranteed to "play like butter!" |
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1-pce. spalted elm body 1-pce walnut neck with birdseye maple fretboard 43 mm @ nut
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FRETLESS B-1 BASS in MAPLE & PADAUKBare polished wood - no finishmaple neck & body; 33 1/3" scalepadauk fingerboard, bridge, head veneers, & knobsstandard J-bass pickups; piezo bridge pickup availableGotoh mini bass tunersdeer antler bridge saddle and string nutvol, vol, tone, tone, mini selector switchbarrel jack; passive electronics
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Also available in other configurations: 4+ strings fretted any scale length desired
Click HERE for more info, and user care guide. |
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The Dream Machine |
The last stage guitar you'll ever need. |
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Here's some audio samples: Acoustic
pickups only Acoustic
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It's
an electric, it's an acoustic, and it's a synth guitar.
Features:Bartolini mini-humbuckers with single coil and phase switches Graph Tech Ghost piezo acoustic bridge saddles with built-in Acoustiphonic pre-amp Graph Tech Hexpander MIDI interface with 13-pin output Stereo output jack for splitting acoustic and magnetic signals 7 mm thick wooden bridge and pickup mounts, flush mounted Wide (43.5 mm) 24-fret neck-through-body; one piece bare black walnut (no finish on back) Gotoh gold-plated tuners Wireless flush wooden battery holder Schaller flush strap locks more info here... or check out the OWNER'S GUIDE (pdf format) This 1st guitar of its line is currently available for sale.
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Introducing my newest model "The Rose"This is the prototype "Bronwyn Boyer" model, called "The Rose." Custom designed for Ms. Boyer, she is now madly in love with it. A solid-body "acoustic" with spruce body, oak neck, maple fingerboard, rosewood binding, markers, and head veneers. The concept was to keep the guitar light, small, simple, servicable and easy to play, with the hope that a spruce body would yield some acoustic response. The experiment was successful! This prototype is a basic, no-fuss design for an electric-acoustic that won't feed back easily. With both a Schaller piezo bridge pickup and a Bartolini magnetic pickup, a variety of sounds are possible. A volume for each pickup and a mini selector switch keep it clean and simple, and all passive. (no battery) I'm going to make more of these from different woods,and the line will evolve as I try various expiriments to get more acoustic sound out of the body wood. There will also be embellishments like body binding and inlays or art work.
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