If there's a guitar you've been looking for all your life, you've come to the right place.
Choose the wood, choose the style, choose the inlay. I'd be happy to discuss your dream guitar with you from headstock to end pin.
Recommended woods for tops: Sitka spruce, Englemann spruce, Adirondack spruce
Recommended woods for backs and sides: mahogany, cocobolo, East Indian rosewood, flame maple
Recommended woods for necks: mahogany
Customized design elements include inlays, headstock shape, scale length, bracing
A recent commission: a Nick Lucas Special model body size and some tweaks requested by the client, including slotted headstock, black top, flamed maple bindings, Waverly tuners, and a special headstock inlay supplied by the client. Nick Lucas Specials were made by Gibson in the late 1920s until the late 1930s to the specifications of Nick Lucas, a popular guitarist and crooner whose signature song was "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." The guitars were variously made with mahogany, rosewood, or maple backs and sides. They were a OO body size but the sides were deeper by about an inch. That extra inch makes a world of difference in the sound—more resonance, more volume—and that size body just feels right. A pleasure to build and a great experience working with a professional musician to create just the right instrument!
