Paul Rhoney

Matt Houar is a good friend of mine.  He plays guitar and synths and does vocals for the Chico, California-based electronic rock duo Team Shark Week.
The body is made from a five-piece Swamp Ash back with a two-piece slip-matched Maple top.  It has hollow “wings” like any Thinline.  The neck is Hard Rock Maple with [...]

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!
Check out this video of D-Rock playing his Starblaster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuhXw3A9vNM

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. [...]

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 [...]

The JMDLX is essentially a cross between a Jazzmaster and a Telecaster Deluxe. I was asked with help designing the pickguard and it became so popular that I’ve since made three of these.
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