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February 24, 2022 in Uncategorized

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  • Did a quick demo yesterday of our new Receiver drive pedal with @ryanhommel using his Princeton. The left footswitch is on/off and the right foot switch selects the style clipping, either LED’s or Germanium Diodes. Both go through their own transistor and internal boost stage. We’ll do more sounds and videos in the future, just wanted to get something up there so you can hear it! Made in collaboration with our other pal Ryan @argonaut_guitar_components , this has really been a fun project to dial in with him. Hope you’ll try one out at the shop or tomorrow @martelmusicstore 11-4 at the pedal party. #healyguitars #healyreceiver #healyhealer
  • Wrapped up the Small Healer for tomorrow’s pedal party @martelmusicstore in Plainville, CT. October 3, 11-4. Would love for you to try this thing out. I’ll have 2 pedals made by the great Evan Craig @dirgeelectronics along too. Evan can’t make it so send him hugs! @blackmasselectronics and @electronicaudioexperiments Halberd in this iPhone 13 video. Xoxo #healyguitars #healyhealer #madeinmassachusetts #offsetguitars #aluminumneck
  • Getting things ready for Saturday’s event @martelmusicstore in Plainville, CT. I’m making a special one-off 24” scale aluminum neck small Healer with some @blackmasselectronics big Single coils who will also be at the event. This is a Baguley neck I grabbed a few years ago and never had the right project to pair it with. We’ll have 6 of our new Receiver drive pedal as well. Hope you can join us and many others from 11-4. #martelmusic #healyhealer #aluminumneck #blackmasselectronics #madeinmassachusetts
  • This Saturday! Stompbox Sonic is happening in Sommerville, MA at Arts in The Armory. @stompboxsonic We debuted our new drive pedal, called the RECEIVER, which we developed with our good friend Ryan @argonaut_guitar_components in late 2025. We sold some to local clients and everyone has responded with great endorsements! The pedal is based on classic 70’s single transistor overdrives, with 2 different clipping options accessed directly on the Right footswitch. When the Red LED is on, it’s LED clipping. When the Blue LED is on, it’s Diode clipping. VOLUME = Volume...COLOR = Tone…INTENSITY = Gain ENGAGE/BYPASS = On/Off… CLIPPING 1/2 = Diode or LED 
Each channel also runs through a boost circuit so that the levels of each style can be dialed in. We do this adjustment in house to our liking. The LED side inherently has a slight bump in volume and body that allows you to switch to that side for a solo or just a change in character. I’ve been changing channels when I switch guitars during our set to balance the output. Thanks a million to Ryan for the collaboration journey and @obscuramfg for the awesome work on the enclosures. We will have 6 of them available at the show on Saturday. After that we will be working on dialing in the packaging, instructions, and demos, and then we’ll open up for orders. Hope to see you in Boston! #stompboxsonic #healyguitars #healyreceiver #madeinMassachusetts
  • This coming Saturday August 29th we’ll be at the @stompboxsonic show in Somerville. We’ll have some new guitars and our first drive pedal which I’ll post more about soon. There’s so many great MA maker friends like @enduringaudio @deadair @nocturnalamplification @electronicaudioexperimemts at the show and special talks and demos from Jamie and Julie from @earthquakerdevices and Courtney Swain @chourtkneey Adam and Jen at Stompbox Sonic have been such awesome and supportive people to pedal makers and musicians in the greater Boston area and beyond and this is their 17th anniversary. Hope you can join the fun from 12-4, should be an awesome day! Ticket link in bio. #healyguitars #healyhealer #stompboxsonic
  • Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
  • I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
  • This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
  • These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
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Did a quick demo yesterday of our new Receiver drive pedal with @ryanhommel using his Princeton. The left footswitch is on/off and the right foot switch selects the style clipping, either LED’s or Germanium Diodes. Both go through their own transistor and internal boost stage. We’ll do more sounds and videos in the future, just wanted to get something up there so you can hear it! Made in collaboration with our other pal Ryan @argonaut_guitar_components , this has really been a fun project to dial in with him. Hope you’ll try one out at the shop or tomorrow @martelmusicstore 11-4 at the pedal party. #healyguitars #healyreceiver #healyhealer
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Wrapped up the Small Healer for tomorrow’s pedal party @martelmusicstore in Plainville, CT. October 3, 11-4. Would love for you to try this thing out. I’ll have 2 pedals made by the great Evan Craig @dirgeelectronics along too. Evan can’t make it so send him hugs! @blackmasselectronics and @electronicaudioexperiments Halberd in this iPhone 13 video. Xoxo #healyguitars #healyhealer #madeinmassachusetts #offsetguitars #aluminumneck
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Getting things ready for Saturday’s event @martelmusicstore in Plainville, CT. I’m making a special one-off 24” scale aluminum neck small Healer with some @blackmasselectronics big Single coils who will also be at the event. This is a Baguley neck I grabbed a few years ago and never had the right project to pair it with. We’ll have 6 of our new Receiver drive pedal as well. Hope you can join us and many others from 11-4. #martelmusic #healyhealer #aluminumneck #blackmasselectronics #madeinmassachusetts
Getting things ready for Saturday’s event @martelmusicstore in Plainville, CT. I’m making a special one-off 24” scale aluminum neck small Healer with some @blackmasselectronics big Single coils who will also be at the event. This is a Baguley neck I grabbed a few years ago and never had the right project to pair it with. We’ll have 6 of our new Receiver drive pedal as well. Hope you can join us and many others from 11-4. #martelmusic #healyhealer #aluminumneck #blackmasselectronics #madeinmassachusetts
Getting things ready for Saturday’s event @martelmusicstore in Plainville, CT. I’m making a special one-off 24” scale aluminum neck small Healer with some @blackmasselectronics big Single coils who will also be at the event. This is a Baguley neck I grabbed a few years ago and never had the right project to pair it with. We’ll have 6 of our new Receiver drive pedal as well. Hope you can join us and many others from 11-4. #martelmusic #healyhealer #aluminumneck #blackmasselectronics #madeinmassachusetts
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Getting things ready for Saturday’s event @martelmusicstore in Plainville, CT. I’m making a special one-off 24” scale aluminum neck small Healer with some @blackmasselectronics big Single coils who will also be at the event. This is a Baguley neck I grabbed a few years ago and never had the right project to pair it with. We’ll have 6 of our new Receiver drive pedal as well. Hope you can join us and many others from 11-4. #martelmusic #healyhealer #aluminumneck #blackmasselectronics #madeinmassachusetts
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This Saturday! Stompbox Sonic is happening in Sommerville, MA at Arts in The Armory. @stompboxsonic We debuted our new drive pedal, called the RECEIVER, which we developed with our good friend Ryan @argonaut_guitar_components in late 2025. We sold some to local clients and everyone has responded with great endorsements! The pedal is based on classic 70’s single transistor overdrives, with 2 different clipping options accessed directly on the Right footswitch. When the Red LED is on, it’s LED clipping. When the Blue LED is on, it’s Diode clipping. VOLUME = Volume...COLOR = Tone…INTENSITY = Gain ENGAGE/BYPASS = On/Off… CLIPPING 1/2 = Diode or LED 
Each channel also runs through a boost circuit so that the levels of each style can be dialed in. We do this adjustment in house to our liking. The LED side inherently has a slight bump in volume and body that allows you to switch to that side for a solo or just a change in character. I’ve been changing channels when I switch guitars during our set to balance the output. Thanks a million to Ryan for the collaboration journey and @obscuramfg for the awesome work on the enclosures. We will have 6 of them available at the show on Saturday. After that we will be working on dialing in the packaging, instructions, and demos, and then we’ll open up for orders. Hope to see you in Boston! #stompboxsonic #healyguitars #healyreceiver #madeinMassachusetts
This Saturday! Stompbox Sonic is happening in Sommerville, MA at Arts in The Armory. @stompboxsonic We debuted our new drive pedal, called the RECEIVER, which we developed with our good friend Ryan @argonaut_guitar_components in late 2025. We sold some to local clients and everyone has responded with great endorsements! The pedal is based on classic 70’s single transistor overdrives, with 2 different clipping options accessed directly on the Right footswitch. When the Red LED is on, it’s LED clipping. When the Blue LED is on, it’s Diode clipping. VOLUME = Volume...COLOR = Tone…INTENSITY = Gain ENGAGE/BYPASS = On/Off… CLIPPING 1/2 = Diode or LED 
Each channel also runs through a boost circuit so that the levels of each style can be dialed in. We do this adjustment in house to our liking. The LED side inherently has a slight bump in volume and body that allows you to switch to that side for a solo or just a change in character. I’ve been changing channels when I switch guitars during our set to balance the output. Thanks a million to Ryan for the collaboration journey and @obscuramfg for the awesome work on the enclosures. We will have 6 of them available at the show on Saturday. After that we will be working on dialing in the packaging, instructions, and demos, and then we’ll open up for orders. Hope to see you in Boston! #stompboxsonic #healyguitars #healyreceiver #madeinMassachusetts
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This Saturday! Stompbox Sonic is happening in Sommerville, MA at Arts in The Armory. @stompboxsonic We debuted our new drive pedal, called the RECEIVER, which we developed with our good friend Ryan @argonaut_guitar_components in late 2025. We sold some to local clients and everyone has responded with great endorsements! The pedal is based on classic 70’s single transistor overdrives, with 2 different clipping options accessed directly on the Right footswitch. When the Red LED is on, it’s LED clipping. When the Blue LED is on, it’s Diode clipping. VOLUME = Volume...COLOR = Tone…INTENSITY = Gain ENGAGE/BYPASS = On/Off… CLIPPING 1/2 = Diode or LED 
Each channel also runs through a boost circuit so that the levels of each style can be dialed in. We do this adjustment in house to our liking. The LED side inherently has a slight bump in volume and body that allows you to switch to that side for a solo or just a change in character. I’ve been changing channels when I switch guitars during our set to balance the output. Thanks a million to Ryan for the collaboration journey and @obscuramfg for the awesome work on the enclosures. We will have 6 of them available at the show on Saturday. After that we will be working on dialing in the packaging, instructions, and demos, and then we’ll open up for orders. Hope to see you in Boston! #stompboxsonic #healyguitars #healyreceiver #madeinMassachusetts
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This coming Saturday August 29th we’ll be at the @stompboxsonic show in Somerville. We’ll have some new guitars and our first drive pedal which I’ll post more about soon. There’s so many great MA maker friends like @enduringaudio @deadair @nocturnalamplification @electronicaudioexperimemts at the show and special talks and demos from Jamie and Julie from @earthquakerdevices and Courtney Swain @chourtkneey Adam and Jen at Stompbox Sonic have been such awesome and supportive people to pedal makers and musicians in the greater Boston area and beyond and this is their 17th anniversary. Hope you can join the fun from 12-4, should be an awesome day! Ticket link in bio. #healyguitars #healyhealer #stompboxsonic
This coming Saturday August 29th we’ll be at the @stompboxsonic show in Somerville. We’ll have some new guitars and our first drive pedal which I’ll post more about soon. There’s so many great MA maker friends like @enduringaudio @deadair @nocturnalamplification @electronicaudioexperimemts at the show and special talks and demos from Jamie and Julie from @earthquakerdevices and Courtney Swain @chourtkneey Adam and Jen at Stompbox Sonic have been such awesome and supportive people to pedal makers and musicians in the greater Boston area and beyond and this is their 17th anniversary. Hope you can join the fun from 12-4, should be an awesome day! Ticket link in bio. #healyguitars #healyhealer #stompboxsonic
This coming Saturday August 29th we’ll be at the @stompboxsonic show in Somerville. We’ll have some new guitars and our first drive pedal which I’ll post more about soon. There’s so many great MA maker friends like @enduringaudio @deadair @nocturnalamplification @electronicaudioexperimemts at the show and special talks and demos from Jamie and Julie from @earthquakerdevices and Courtney Swain @chourtkneey Adam and Jen at Stompbox Sonic have been such awesome and supportive people to pedal makers and musicians in the greater Boston area and beyond and this is their 17th anniversary. Hope you can join the fun from 12-4, should be an awesome day! Ticket link in bio. #healyguitars #healyhealer #stompboxsonic
This coming Saturday August 29th we’ll be at the @stompboxsonic show in Somerville. We’ll have some new guitars and our first drive pedal which I’ll post more about soon. There’s so many great MA maker friends like @enduringaudio @deadair @nocturnalamplification @electronicaudioexperimemts at the show and special talks and demos from Jamie and Julie from @earthquakerdevices and Courtney Swain @chourtkneey Adam and Jen at Stompbox Sonic have been such awesome and supportive people to pedal makers and musicians in the greater Boston area and beyond and this is their 17th anniversary. Hope you can join the fun from 12-4, should be an awesome day! Ticket link in bio. #healyguitars #healyhealer #stompboxsonic
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This coming Saturday August 29th we’ll be at the @stompboxsonic show in Somerville. We’ll have some new guitars and our first drive pedal which I’ll post more about soon. There’s so many great MA maker friends like @enduringaudio @deadair @nocturnalamplification @electronicaudioexperimemts at the show and special talks and demos from Jamie and Julie from @earthquakerdevices and Courtney Swain @chourtkneey Adam and Jen at Stompbox Sonic have been such awesome and supportive people to pedal makers and musicians in the greater Boston area and beyond and this is their 17th anniversary. Hope you can join the fun from 12-4, should be an awesome day! Ticket link in bio. #healyguitars #healyhealer #stompboxsonic
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Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
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Sneak peek at some guitar things that we’ll be bringing to Providence, RI tomorrow for the @empireguitars Pedal Thing! We haven’t built up a Forager in a couple years and this Korina body was hanging around just waiting to be painted Green and have a Stratoblaster installed. Join us and a ton of fellow makers of things and give them a go. Saturday August 15th, 11-4 #healyguitars #providencepedalthing2026 #healyhealer #healyforager #healerbass
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I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
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I just wrapped up the first 28” scale Baritone Growler and it came out grand. This one is for our new friend Josh M @joshmilan6969 who we met through our old friend Ernie Jackson @jamsire_ernoir Ernie has the very first Baritone I made while attending Roberto-Venn and Josh got to play it and fell head over heels! I’ll write more about Ernie and that guitar soon. As much as I am proud of my work from 25 years ago, I didn’t want to revisit the same body shape as it really doesn’t represent what we do now. I also didn’t have templates from the old days! Thankfully Josh was willing to go with the Growler shape. I always thought the combination of materials was really key to the bass response and feel of the original guitar, so I stuck with a chambered Mahogany body, Maple top, Maple neck and Ebony fretboard (this time Macassar Ebony but close enough). Continued in next slide… The pickup combination was unique too, and I have no memory of why I chose a Firebird Bridge and Telecaster neck back then but the pickups work great for the low end, and the bridge gives the twang you’d hope for to cut through a mix. We chose @lollarpickups for what I think of as their Hi-Fi qualities. They’re very touch responsive and paired with @vintageinspiredpickups 280k pots they just have a great wide spectrum of tones. I used a Hipshot bridge because the plate is a taller 0.175” so I could keep the neck angle closer to our standard set-neck pitch. The neck is big, and with a 1 3/4” nut width there’s room for the heavier strings and the taper of the fretboard feels less pronounced, something Josh had responded to on the original guitar. We also used Hipshot locking tuners. The 28” scale is tuned to B-b with D’Addario 13-62 strings. The standard 25.5” scale Growler joins the body at the 21st fret, but I wanted to make sure we had a larger tenon to withstand the string tension and balance well, so I moved the joint to the 20th fret and lengthened the joint. Continued in the next slide… The whole instrument is bound with Ivoroid, sprayed with a Champagne Sparkle Metallic lacquer, and has a gloss clear coat throughout. We used 95x45 fretwire and a 10-12” compound radius fretboard. I al
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This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
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This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done. What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go! Thanks Steve! #healyguitars #healyhealer #offsetguitars #lollarpickups
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These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
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These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book. In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the @descendantvibrato and bridge.  The icing on the cake for me were the @geminipickups Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside.  As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the @ruttersguitars chopped tele bridge. Head over to @relicmusicshop to try give these a go! “Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners .85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R  1.625” Nut width Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01 #healyguitars #healyhealer #relicmusic #geminpickups
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