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chambered 4 string bass quilt maple top

"B4b-Hybrid"


This is my newest instrument.  4 string Jazz bass essentially, quilt maple top with a chambered body, acoustic-style bridge, and acoustic piezo pickup.  It's strung up and I am pretty stoked on it so far...stay tuned.

honduran rosewood electric acoustic hybrid guitar

"HG1"

Hollow body Acoustic Electric hybrid guitar.  Spruce top with "F" hole and natural Mahogany finish, Honduran Rosewood back and sides with single cutaway, Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard, headplate, and tuner buttons, two P-90's and Fishman Natural 1 acoustic transducer.

 
Electric acoustic hybrid guitar with f hole and P-90s

6 astring bolt on bass carved top seymour duncan electronics

"B6b"

6 string bolt-on bass.  Contoured Ash/Maple/Walnut body, 24 fret 2-way adjustable Maple/Walnut neck, Pao Ferro fingerboard, Seymour Duncan active soapbars with Aguilar OBP-1 preamp.


Flame Maple F style mandolin sunburst

"SM"


A quilted maple mandolin, mid-finish.  I am using an alcohol-based dye that is hand applied.  The binding will have to be scraped afterwards.

4 string jazz style bass bolt on neck unfinished

"B4b"


A 4 string jazz-style bass.  The body has an Alder center with Ash wings.  Here I am fitting the electronics cavity cover and preparing for finish.

highly figured redwood for 6 string bass top A really nice piece of figured redwood, sent to me by a customer--lucky me!  Here I am figuring out if the body template will actually fit, and where to put it for best effect.  The finished product is pictured below.

electric mandolin mahogany single coil pickup

"EM5"


My third electric mandolin. Features a Lace single coil pickup, adjustable ebony bridge, and maple neck on a mahogany body.  5 single strings tuned C, G, D, A, E.

custom 4 string hollow maple bass neck through

"B4nh"

4-string neck thru bass.  Flame Maple top on hollowed Ash body with "F" hole, bound Birdseye Maple neck with Wenge and Purpleheart laminates and Abalone dots, custom Nordstrand pickups with Aguilar OBP-3  preamp.


mahogany 5 string bolt on bass

"B5b"


5-string bolt-on bass.  3-piece Maple bolt-on neck, Mahogany body with Maple center strip, 24 fret Indian Rosewood fingerboard, EMG active P/J pickups.

pink ivory 6 string bass fingerboard with sunscape inlay Pink Ivory 6 string bass fingerboard.  While riding my bike along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz around sunset time...well you get it.  This was a really nice board and I decided to book-match it so the bottom half would look like a reflection of the top half.  Insert a sun, some pelicans, and land features and you've got a sunscape. (Finished pic below.)

acoustic guitar wenge and redwood

"AG1"

Acoustic steel string guitar.  Redwood top, Wenge back and sides, Mahogany neck, Rosewood binding and Fingerboard.  Alternative voicing and bracing system with offset soundholes.


custom 6 string bass figured redwood top wenge neck thru

"B6n"

6 String neck through bass. Walnut body, Wenge/Bubinga neck, figured Redwood top.  Pink Ivory fingerboard with sunset landscape scene.  Lane Poor magnetic pickups and Ghost acoustic bridge system with Hipshot hardware.