The prototype Jacobite fretboard shows a landscape of the rustic wilderness along Alaska's Denali Highway engraved in mother-of-pearl, an image inspired by my 2011 cycling adventure. The ebony headstock veneer is flanked by Alaskan cedar burl. In keeping with the Telecaster-style, this guitar has a bolt-on neck and slab body construction and it's pickup is a single coil, but it is a specially wound extra long single coil. The frequency response is quite broad due to the pickup's angle, giving it a big bottom and sparkling highs.
This instrument was commissioned by a fellow that performs in a group playing an electrified 21-7/8" scale acoustic guitar with a piezo pickup on it. He tunes it E-A-D with heavy strings. It is his thing, that's what he does. Who am I to question his thing? I am here to help. So, I suggested that I make him a Luddite version complete with a three pole-piece humbucker pickup and special custom hardware. I love this kind of thing. He called my bluff and here it is.
The Silvertone guitar sold by Sears Roebuck in the 1960s, was probably the most accessible model of electric guitar for the aspiring young musician. Specimen's series of Silvertone style guitars feature construction characteristics similar to that of the original Silvertone.
The Peregrine Luddite is a slightly streamlined version of the Super Luddite. It enjoys all of the special circuitry of the Super without the carved top and the set neck. Binding is also absent; instead the body features a minimal round over on the top and back. The chambered body has a Cambodian Rosewood cap with a beautiful book-matched center sapwood detail. Let me emphasize again that I truly feel I have stumbled upon a very special design. Even though its 12th fret body join, non-adjustable steel truss rod, and a slotted headstock are basically antique concepts, sonically this guitar has so much to offer that one can easily forgive its lack of modern appointments, which are mostly for fashion anyway. The sound of this guitar turns heads every time.
The Luddite Amontillado guitar was commissioned to fulfill a request for an acoustic instrument that would primarily be used with an under-saddle transducer plugged into an amp. This application is renown for having feedback problems.
In August 2008, Bosch Tool Corporation approached me about building a promotional guitar for a new heavy metal demolition saw blade they are introducing. Ordinarily, I steer clear of these types of commercial commissions, however I have used Bosch tools for years and their router and saber saw models are unparalleled in quality and longevity. Consequently, after careful consideration, I decided to take on the project. The result is, perhaps ironically and surprisingly, a pretty killer instrument.
This guitar was made in 1998 at the request of Dave "Timely" Winer of the Howards and the Baltimores. He called my bluff after I replied, "Not only can I build it, I can make the headstock blink as well!" A variable-speed knob is located on the eyeball so you can synchronize the blinker to the beat. There is also an emergency push-button kill switch (another request of the client).
This Strat has a hardtail bridge with three way stock wiring and Fender Texas Special pickups. A plainly unique instrument. The slotted headstock with it's enhanced break angle over the nut, imparts a superior vibrational embedment into the neck, with extra sustain and shimmering harmonics.
Finished Front
The prototype Jacobite fretboard shows a landscape of the rustic wilderness along Alaska's Denali Highway engraved in mother-of-pearl, an image inspired by my 2011 cycling adventure. The ebony headstock veneer is flanked by Alaskan cedar burl. In keeping with the Telecaster-style, this guitar has a bolt-on neck and slab body construction and it's pickup is a single coil, but it is a specially wound extra long single coil. The frequency response is quite broad due to the pickup's angle, giving it a big bottom and sparkling highs.
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A tribute to the first Spanish-electric production model, the Esquires utterly basic format lends itself adeptly to Specimen's aluminum guitar body. Although minimal, this Esquire guitar is no one-trick pony. It takes very little coaxing to prompt a diverse and dynamic tonal pallet. The Specimen aluminum Esquire guitar comes either with a custom Specimen neck (pictured here) that features a non-adjustable steel reinforcement and my special 6-on-a-side headstock design, or with a stock Fender-style neck that I finish in nitrocellulose lacquer for about one thousand dollars less. comes either with a custom Specimen neck that features a non-adjustable steel reinforcement and my special 6-on-a-side headstock design or with a stock Fender-style neck.
