Recently I got to visit one of my biggest inspirations in the flesh. Just a short distance from me is the home and work shop of none other than Saul Koll. I’ve termed Saul “The Heavyweight Champion of Guitar Makers.” There’s lots of guys out there who can build amazing guitars. Then there’s slightly fewer [...]
I thought I would share a few customer pics of guitars that feature my work.
Here’s one of my favorites, I made the body and pickguard and the customer finished it and added the parts/electronics/etc.:
Another body and pickguard by me, and the rest of the work by the customer:
Pada- wha?
Pics now, text later. Whooo!
Be sure to check out the new templates recently added to my Ponoko Showroom! Linky: http://www.ponoko.com/showroom/PaulRhoneyGuitarCo
As far as I know, Teisco is now defunct and nobody owns the name.* Or at least nobody is doing anything with it. So until somebody tells me otherwise, I get to unabashedly talk about how I’ve been commissioned to make a clone of one of their cool and rare guitars.
I’d already started making short-scale [...]
At some point in time I decided that I was never going to be able to faithfully reproduce a Fender Starcaster, without having a real one in my hands to clone. So I threw that whole idea to the wind and started tweaking my drawings until I came up with something new that I liked. [...]
Making a body blank is a simple process that doesn’t require a lot of tools. I buy wood from a local hardwood store that typically stocks their boards in what is known as “S3S.” This is an abbreviation for “surfaced on three sides.” What that means is the boards come already planed on their broad [...]
Here is a fun one! I’m building this guitar for Joseph Demaree of the Portland, OR-based band The Unit Breed. Joe is an incredible artist and a dear friend of mine. He actually helped considerably with the design of this one, including the stubby upper cutaway. I thought it looked kind of like a cross [...]