Show Countdown report #1

After leveling the faces of a dozen JazzBlasters with the hand sander. Looks kind of like Borderlands.

I'm posting this pic in for now, but Don may have me take it down. I don't think any secrets are being revealed, but I could be wrong. You can see by the color of Don's hands that we have working Avatar pods and will be completing the remainder of this project in Avatar form.

A stack of Tele bodies. I think these are going to be known as SST from now on. They are waiting for contouring, pup and pocket routes and more! There's yours on top, Brett!

Stack of the second generation Jazzblaster. We have made improvements to our processes which could result in smiles. These have yet to be face-sanded.

No progress on the Tonar.

I'm going out of town this weekend to do stuff. I'll hopefully be back in the shop next week. Pray for Don as he is working too hard.

Countdown to the show...

April 16, 17 & 18. The 2010 Dallas International Guitar Festival.

Man, we've got a lot of work to do Don and I. Our plan is to have a few second generation JazzBlasters, a Tele shape or two, and the new all original Tonar.

As of now we've got the JBs, and the Tele bodies together, but still need to contour them, route them for pups, build the necks, and on and on. The Tonar doesn't even exist outside of a sketch!

I'll post picks of the process starting tomorrow night.

Wish us luck...

Paul DiFrancisco's Endorsment sounds like this...

Thanks, Paul! You can check out Xes Whiskey here.

Live 80 at NYE in Dallas

Check out Marc Daigle of the Dallas band Live 80 and his Bell Custom V.
Click here! and watch the video on the right.

A video from Ty

Ty and his JazzBlaster do Joe Satriani.
Check it out on the homepage, homie.

The first V with lights...

This one's another for Ed Roland of Collective Soul. It features the Amalfitano PAF style pups, string-through and set neck. Like his JazzBlaster, this V has the stripe around the acrylic to better accentuate the shape of the guitar for those in the nosebleeds! Sounds fantastic, too!

Happy New Year...

now get to work!

We are surfacing six first-run Tele shapes today. Getting them one step closer to the finish line.