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#1211 Redbird
This is one I started a while back, and finally got around to finishing up. It has a couple minor blemishes from inattention while gluing the neck in place, which was the reason I set it aside. The...
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#1213 Muleskinner SC2
Body: 4 piece beech rafter, chambered, with chestnut barnwood top Neck: Black walnut, with osage orange fretboard, black phenolic position markers Pickups: Dismal Homespun P90 neck: Alnico 5, 8500...
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#1215 Road Dog Esquire
Body: One piece cucumbertree, with three piece salvaged yellow pine top Neck: Hard maple with persimmon fretboard Pickup: Seymour Duncan Hot tele stack Bridge: PRS intonated stoptail Tuners: Gotoh...
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#1301 “Heart of Dixie” Road Dog ~ first ax of the year.
More license plates… This one has a body made from salvaged yellow poplar barn rafters, with a bolt on soft maple neck. Seymour Duncan JB/Jazz humbucker set, Dismal Ax brass three saddle hardtail...
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#1302 “Heart of Dixie” Road Dog esquire
Salvaged cypress top on one piece buckeye back Mild birdseye maple neck with black locust fretboard Seymour Duncan hot tele stack Tone Pros wraparound bridge Hipshot Classic tuners. 6.7 lbs Available...
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#1304 Muleskinner SC-2
Top: Three piece salvaged ash Back: One piece cucumbertree, moderately distressed Neck: Black walnut, with persimmon fretboard, compensated nut Pickups: Dismal homespun bridge~ Tele style, Alnico 2,...
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#1305 “The Hawk”
This is a custom commission for one of my favorite customers, who asked for a mutation of the classic Gibson Firebird, giving me free rein to do as I please with the details, which partly accounts for...
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#1306 Mississippi Road Dog
This is the third Road Dog I have done with this green painted bead board that came from the sliding doors from the old Watertown railroad freight station. I sawed the boards in half, and laminated...
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#1307 “Heart of Dixie” Road Dog
More license plates.. This one is a classic “Heart of Dixie” Alabama tag from 1962, in unissued condition. A real piece of Americana for sure. License plates are fun for me because they relate...
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#1308 Road Dog Strat
This is the first Strat-shaped Road Dog I have done. The body is made from salvaged pine 2×4, neck is hard maple, with a persimmon fretboard. Pickups are Dismal homespun single coils Hipshot fulcrum...
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#1311 Sparrowhawk
This is the first of a batch I will be building for sale through DestroyAllGuitars I made the prototype, called simply “The Hawk” earlier this year. The new version has a bolt on neck with my new...
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#1401 Sparrowhawk
Body~ Salvaged quartersawn poplar center block; virginia pine wings, with chestnut barnwood tops Neck~ Hard maple, with persimmon fretboard Available at DestroyAllGuitars
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#1406 Wisconsin road dog
This one is a custom commission, and possibly the last T********r shaped ax I will build. I love this guitar as much as any of the others I have made, but I have gotten a bit tired of using this body...
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me
So yeah, a little about me, to clear up any confusion, and possibly to cause some. I used to be called George, but now I am Gwen. The former was largely a facade built up over a lifetime of fear. The...
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#1407 barnstormer SC
This is a single cutaway version of the barnstormer, with simpler appointments.. The body is cucumbertree, with an elm barnwood top featuring the worn remains of the original red paint. Neck is hard...
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#1409 Barnstormer prototype
This is one I put together from an older neck, and a body prototype from when I was reworking the barnstormer DC design. I also used it to try out a couple ideas~ the finish is milk paint on barnwood,...
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#1410 barnstormer sc
Playing with milk paint some more, this time on sassafras I cut on my portable sawmill years ago. I miscalculated the shrinkage rate at the time, and after it dried, it was the thickness of a guitar...
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#1501 barnstormer sc
Bookmatched, quartersawn red mulberry top on chambered basswood body. Cherry neck with persimmon fretboard. Three single coil pickups with a three position switch and a new wiring arrangement~ the...
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frozen…
so, i have not done much in the past week, except for feeding the woodstove. the latest polar vortex did a bit of a number on this area, encasing it in alternating layers of snow and ice. they don’t...
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#1503 Barnstormer DC
no, the picture is not backwards or upside down, this is indeed a left handed barnstormer with a “reverse” headstock; a custom order. had to constantly check to make sure i had things the right (or...
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