Smokehouse Guitars

Features

• 610mm Scale
• Tapered Poplar Neck
• Red Oak Fretboard
• Tung Oil Finish (neck)
• Decorative Headstock Veneer
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Medium Nickel/Silver Fret Wire
• 16″ Neck Radius
• Chrome Sound Hole Screens
• Hand Carved Marawood Bridge
• Brass Saddle
• True Acoustic Soundboard (no neck-through)
• Bridge-mount Piezoelectric Pickup
• Chrome Output Jack
• Chrome Strap Buttons
• Box is sealed with a lacquer spray finish

The standard acoustic guitar is the most affordable instrument that I make.  It is very simple in its design; however you will not find another guitar like it that can match its tone or playability.  This is the “hot rod” of basic piezo pickup cigar box guitars.

Features

• 25.5″ Scale
• 16″ Neck Radius
• 2 Way Truss Rod
• Curly Cherry Neck
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Lacewood Headplate
• Gabon Ebony Fretboard
• Red Abalone Dot Inlay
• Gold Jumbo Frets
• Handmade Wood Laminate Parts (Zebra, Paduak, Ebony)(truss cover, jack plate, pickup ring, knobs)
• Handmade Custom Neck Pickup (Alnico5 magnets, 8,000 winds, lacquered coil)
• Volume & Tone Controls, 250K pots
• Handmade Marawood Bridge, brass saddle
• Rosewood Control Cover Plate
• French Polish Finish

Features

• 610mm Scale
• Tapered Red Oak Neck
• Poplar Fretboard
• Tung Oil Finish (neck)
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Medium Nickel/Silver Fret Wire
• 16″ Neck Radius
• Chrome Sound Hole Screens
• Hand Carved Marawood Bridge
• Brass Saddle
• True Acoustic Soundboard (no neck-through)
• Bridge-mount Piezoelectric Pickup
• Chrome Output Jack
• Box is sealed with a lacquer spray finish

The standard acoustic guitar is the most affordable instrument that I make.  It is very simple in its design; however you will not find another guitar like it that can match its tone or playability.  This is the “hot rod” of basic piezo pickup cigar box guitars.

Features

• Four String guitar, poplar neck, red oak fingerboard, Tung Oil finish
• Fingerboard radius of 16″
• All gold hardware (including frets)
• Archtop Jazz mini humbucker
• Volume/Tone control
• Gibson style top hat knobs
• Lacquer coated box
• Control cavity with access to pots

The Red Queen guitar is by far one of my most popular traditional four string guitars.  The loud red box is set off perfectly by the gold hardware and the simplicity of the design, right down to the plain oak bridge, belies a screaming bitch of a tone machine.

One of the coolest things about this guitar is its rarity.  Red Punch cigar boxes are very hard to come by.  I always try to snatch them up when I find them but even so, I usually go months without having one in my cigar box reserves.  At the time of this writing, only three of these guitars exist in the whole world.  Two are located in America and one of them (the first one I ever made) is in Japan.  Whenever I do manage to get a red Punch box, I use it only for this guitar as anything less would be a waste.

Features

• Red Oak and Poplar neck
• Figured White Birch veneer headstock
• Corian nut
• 4 string tapered neck
• Stainless steel frets
• Classic Telecaster neck pickup
• Volume knob, chrome finish
• Custom Mara wood acoustic bridge
• Handmade red oak jack plate
• Chrome strap buttons

The idea behind Warm Fusion is that it combines the engineering science of the electric guitar with the artistry of acoustic guitar construction and the tradition of the four string cigar box guitar.  I feel that I have combined these things successfully and the result is better than I had expected.

The parts of this guitar that I am most pleased with are the bridge and the neck.  I wasn’t sure how a tapered four string neck would look here and was initially concerned about string spacing, however I find that the guitar plays quite comfortably.  The bridge, which has been hand shaped from a piece of Mara wood, is one of the best I’ve done so far, using Martin bridge pins and an intonable brass saddle.

Excluding the hardware, every piece of this guitar was hand made.

This particular guitar was built for charity.  I made it especially for Golden Crown Productions to auction off on September 25th at their Rockabilly show, the proceeds of which will go to benefit The Unforgettables Foundation (a 501c (3) NPO that assists families struggling with the death of a child).  Being a parent myself, I am deeply honored to be a part of this.