It’s always a fantastic time when we get to play one of Steve Klein’s feats of modern lutherie, but one we don’t see com that often through our doors is a solid body electric like this 1994 beauty. Solid Spruce body with one-piece Rosewood neck, 19 frets to the body and a 25.4” scale, plus a truly fearsome JCustom Headless Research tremolo system. Steve’s design carries out ergonomics to the very end: this guitar sits perfectly in the lap, neck at a comfortable angle, and the weight distributes just as easily when strapped in and standing up. Seymour Duncan pickups, 5-way switch, volume and tone knobs with a coil tap push-pull. A lifetime of tones wrapped in one effortless package.

Other keywords: ergo guitar, solidbody, solid-body, 066, klein guitars, headless guitar, transtrem, trans trem

Straight out of far, far, far left field, we’ve got a steampunk distortion provocateur affectionately dubbed Miss Blues from electric guitar whiz kid Leo Lospennato. With a built-in knob to dial in distortion from plain jane’s “none,” all the way to “nuclear,” it’s clear that with a twitch of the dial your tone will plunge from the clean and lofty into the depths of chaotic distortion. Fun, much?

The Alder body is finished with vintage and steampunk flair, comes with a piezo bridge pickup to supplement the Dimarzio Bluesbucker (flip up the pickguard to access the battery compartment!). With a piece this unique, your tone (to say nothing of visual flair) is guaranteed to stand apart from the crowd. They’ll want to stay back, lest Miss Blues devour them in a distortion fugue!

other spellings: lospennoto, laspennato, laspentno, lospenanto, steam punk, dmiarzio

We commissioned this build on behalf of one of our clients (give us a shout if you’d like a bespoke Matsuda of your own), who loved Michi’s Deconstruction aesthetics but wanted to take it in a new direction. Enter: the Double Neck Deconstruction. Two necks designed with two playing styles in mind, the bottom set up for plucking and strumming, the top for tapping. Additionally, the bottom neck features a custom cittern-style bridge, whereas the top neck is outfitted with a hinged string damper at the nut. The assembled body of the instrument is decoupled from the acoustic top to allow it to vibrate freely, and an array of pickups across the arrangement allow for a wide range of setups heading out to the amp.

Other keywords: lutherie, guitarbuilding, custom guitar, luthier, somogyi, modern guitar, fingerstyle, wenge, gotoh, percussive guitar, maple, 128A

Spalted Maple, Swamp Ash, and Silver Leaf Blueburst accents are the ingredients of this 2020 PRS  Custom 24 masterpiece. Epic sounds from an epic axe, loaded with the 58/15 pickups, which are PRS’s take on the legendary PAF (Patent Applied For) pickups. These pickups deliver vintage tone in ultra-sleek and modern packaging. The pickups and hardware are finished in ‘Smoked Black,’ including locking tuners and a tremolo—the whole shebang. Whether you’re a collector, a performer, or a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, this guitar will be an incredible addition to any collection.

Other keywords/misspellings: Luthier, lutherie, electric, Paul Reed Smith, shred, whammy, 20-304835

What better way to celebrate 10 years in the business than a no-holds-barred 10th Anniversary model from PRS! Here we’ve landed #93 of an exclusive 200 in Teal Black finish over a Mahogany body and tight-flamed Maple top. Custom Pearl dove inlays along the fretboard and headstock pair up with gold hardware, McCarty electronics plus coil tap tone knob, locking tuners, wide-thin neck (feels oh so buttery smooth in hand). This beau weighs in a little over eight pounds with a great neck-body balance that keeps the guitar comfortable on either leg when played seated. The trem is currently set up with five springs for a smooth play feel. Comes wrapped up in the original case.

other keywords: prs guitars, duane simpson, bespoke guitar, 523146, paul reed smith