Paul Rhoney

Here’s a new commission that I’ll be starting soon.  The customer wanted a semi-hollow body guitar with a Fender floating trem and Rickenbacker pickups.  Sort of a cross between a Fender and a Rick.  He liked my Starblaster design, so we’re going with it!

When you get right down to it, what is an electric guitar really? In the early years of the electric guitar, the question was simply “how can we make the guitar louder?”  Guitar players were trying to be heard on stages supporting big swing bands with brass instruments and their guitars were too hard to [...]

Les Pauls were my first true guitar love affair. I was obsessed with them so much at one point that I frequently had dreams and nightmares about them. Usually at the same time. I would be in some odd situation as we so often are in dreams, and somehow I would get this Les Paul [...]

I get asked a lot about making conversion necks for different Fender guitars.  It seems like there are a lot of people who love certain things about various models of fenders, but can’t get on with that particular model’s scale length.  Some people prefer Fender’s standard scale length of 25.5″, as found on Strats, Teles,and [...]

I finished my first guitar in December of 2007. It was very nearly unplayable thanks to the narrow nut width, baseball bat thick neck, enormous frets, and poor overall setup. But it did have two things going for it. First was that it sounded good. After adjusting to the scrawny feel of the first position [...]

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 [...]

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? Check out the build thread for this guitar here on the OffsetGuitars Forum.

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