Yet another custom build from Dake Traphagen for one of our longtime clients! This time we’ve got Dake’s take on the Slope Shoulder D, here in Honduran Rosewood and Carpathian Spruce. The client needed a stage-ready guitar, so a K&K Trinity pickup+mic was installed, and to make this one really stand out from the crowd Dake inlaid the bridge and top with Abalone, and we commissioned the one-and-only Larry Robinson to craft a shield-bearing angel for the headstock, and a matching caduceus inlaid into the fretboard.
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I had a lot of fun custom-building this guitar for Scott Rovner, a great musician from the Northeast. After decades of playing his trusted Martin dread, he commission this custom Slpe from Dake Traphagen and we customized it with Larry Robinson inlays to make it all all the more special for him. It’s a very versatile body shape that allows flatpicking and fingerpicking alike with equal beauty and power. | Scale Length | 25.4 in |
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| Nut Width | 1.75 in |
| String Spacing | 2.063 in |
| Woods | Spruce - Carpathian, Rosewood - Honduran |
Yet another custom build from Dake Traphagen for one of our longtime clients. This time we’ve got Dake’s take on the Slope Shoulder D, here in Honduran Rosewood and Carpathian Spruce
I had a lot of fun custom-building this guitar for Scott Rovner, a great musician from the Northeast. After decades of playing his trusted Martin dread, he commission this custom Slpe from Dake Traphagen and we customized it with Larry Robinson inlays to make it all all the more special for him 