The Rose
One of my earlier guitars, we call the 'Rose' , Hong designed the Rose
based on the Lamcome cosmetics logo. Done with MOP and Abalone,
the thornes and leaves are at the spots typically used to mark frets.
The pickups are EMGs, the whammy is Kahler, the tunning machines are
Schaller. The neck is quarter sawn maple with ebony
fingerboard, the face is birdseye maple, the back is
mahogany. The finish is lacquer with a red tint. I
still use this guitar for recording, and sometimes for
gigs. The fingerboard is flat, (ebony) like a classical guitar
because when I built it, I was playing the classical alot, and was used
to that feel. The other instuments I built have radised
fingerboards, depending on what the player wanted.
A Tele Style guitar, for a friend
Maple body, with walnut 'wings'. maple fingerboard, skunk
stripe for truss rod. I forget what pickups, I think they were
Schaller....maybe DiMarzio... This is the way it starts, just blocks of wood and a vision.
The Nick Loggia Bass
Nicks' bass
Flame Maple with ebony fingerboard, DiMarzio Jazz bass pickups, Schaller bridge and tuners.
a work in progress....
Everything comes in rough cut, the neck is just a block of wood, the
back and sides are bookmatched, but not thicknesed, the fingerboard is
just a piece of ebony, and has to be planed to the correct thickness,
and slots cut for the frets, then fretted.... The braces are just
hunks of wood the have to be cut, shaped glued the the right size and
place... That to me is the fun of it, creating a good sounding/playing
guitar out of pieces of wood.
Tony Sgroi's guitar
Mahogany back, sides and neck, sitka spruce top, ebony fingerboard and bridge. Inlay design by Tony.
This is a left handed guitar, as that is the way he plays! I am
left handed also, but have adapted the the right handed world...sort
of... He want it blue, so that what it is, a water based
lacquer finish. Sounds good and plays very nice.
Finished instrument
