Paul Rhoney

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 [...]