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Arns85GT
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DEC 05, 12:24 PM
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As many forum members know I build electric guitars. These guitars use quality parts. They are hand build with minor exceptions.
I build them to suit myself so they have to play like a dream and sound good. This is a hobby for me, so I don't charge for my time. I only charge to support my hobby to buy parts and tools. I try to sell guitars with a leather strap and strap locks. I can't stand to see a nice guitar with a cheap strap.
The first one is my least expensive. It has a refurbished Stratocaster body, custom maple neck, overwound "hot" pickups, brass nut, roller saddles and roller string keepers. The frets are jumbo style nickel alloy, and it comes with a black leather strap with strap lock. The paint is metallic green lacquer. It plays clean but a rich and fatter than normal sound.
SOLD
Next is my blond fat strat. It has an ash body and maple neck with jumbo nickel alloy frets. It has a "Tremsetter" controlled roller bridge for perfect recovery when dive bombing, with locking tuners and roller T's.
The pickups are fat pat GFS pickups and the neck position has a push pull switch on the volume to change from series to parallel. What this does is make the neck pickup behave like a more acoustic sound for country, or become a fat juicy pickup for blues.
It comes with a blond soft leather strap with strap lock. This is a fabulous sounding guitar.
This one is $700 plus shipping.
This guitar is a modified Strat and very pretty. The body was hand cut by a local luthier and then finished by me. It has a maple neck with jumbo alloy frets, a pearloid pick guard and is painted with metallic black lacquer.
The tuners are locking, with a roller bridge and roller saddles. The first two pickups are overwound and meatier than standard Strat pickups. The bridge pickup is a humbucker and is pretty potent.
SOLD
The next guitar is a gem. It is being sold with case, because the pair of them are just so pretty together. The case is a repro tweed case, and the strap is padded. The guitar is a Les Paul Junior clone with a maple neck. It has art deco Grover tuners, a roller bridge, and GFS fat pat humbuckers. The paint is metallic red lacquer. This guitar is fitted with the "Tremsetter" so it returns to true tune after dive bombing. This guitar plays and sounds just fabulous.
The price is $750 plus shipping.
The last one is the most customed one in the shop. It is a Telecaster like no other. It has a hand cut ash body, with maple neck. It features lockable tuners, roller nut, and roller saddles so if you want to dive bomb it will stay in tune. The tremolo is a Bigsby 5 clone and is very smooth.
The pickups are Dimarzio and the pick guard is 3 ply tortoise shell. This guitar will turn heads when you pull it out to play. Very fast action, nice balance, and a good weight due to the lightened Telecaster body.
This one is back with GFS Fat Pat pickups. It looks the same but is a bit more killer on delivery
I have more guitars and a bass which I'll post on a separate thread
Arn[This message has been edited by Arns85GT (edited 03-06-2015).]
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kwagner
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DEC 21, 07:59 PM
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Just wanted to say beautiful pieces If you made keytars I'd be interested
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Arns85GT
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DEC 21, 08:05 PM
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Thanks, they always get rave reviews when I play them.
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fieroboy_gt
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JAN 16, 09:54 AM
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You ever venture off in too other none conventional shapes at all like ibanez destroyer styling or like the Guild x88 flying star . would love too find a nice custom guitar.
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Arns85GT
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JAN 16, 12:45 PM
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the closest I've got to custom is the telecaster. It now has GFS fat pat pickups. It is pretty sweet and I'm playing it.
To do a flying V or some other custom design I would have to do it to the specifications someone wanted.
There is allot to chose on a guitar build. Everything from fret wire size to pickups, to bridge and nut..
In general though, I don't do radical designs on spec. Hope this answers your question
Arn
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kristinagalloway
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JAN 23, 10:13 AM
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Nice guitars
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Arns85GT
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JAN 23, 10:45 AM
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Thanks. As long as nobody wants one I get to chose from all of them for my gigs.
Arn
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Arns85GT
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MAR 06, 10:38 PM
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Two of them are gone. Got to think on a new project
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