Victor Baker Guitars – Guitars made by luthier Victor Baker
Victor Baker is a total jazz guitar junkie. He builds, plays, makes music with, lives, eats, and sleeps jazz guitar. He has been playing guitar for 26 years, and has settled into a cool but humble life of running his own custom guitar business where he builds commissioned instruments for various professional, aspiring professional and hobby / collector guitarists. Victor also plays professionally (on 7 string guitar) and does his best to maintain a very active playing schedule with the best musicians in the area. Victor Baker holds a BA from Berklee College ’92. He also spent 2-1/2 years playing with various musicians in the NYC subway system as a street performer and as a member of the city’s “Music Under New York” program. His real schooling occured literally on and under the streets of NYC. He mostly enjoys jazz that is played with a view that looks forward to a future horizon rather than simply paying homage to the past. Victor is in the process of making and continually updating a series of “live to pro-tools” recordings right in his guitar woodshop workspace. He hopes to showcase his own playing and compositions as well as the instruments he builds. Victor Baker’s hope is to build a creative and interesting scene around the guitars, as well as showcase the music that he (and others) play with them.
Visit the Victor Baker Guitars website at:
Victor Baker Guitars
Victor Baker Archtop Guitar
Victor Baker Guitar
Victor Baker DDC Special Edition Electric Guitar
Victor Baker Thinline Maple Top Electric Guitar
Victor Baker Solidbody Electric Guitar
Victor Baker VBT model Electric Guitar
Jason Z. Schroeder Custom Guitars introduces the new Handmade Radio Lane Singlecut in Tweed Burst
Jason Z. Schroeder introduces the all new Handmade Radio Lane Singlecut Guitar in Tweed Burst. The Radio Lane Singlecut in Tweed Burst features traditional tonewoods and dimensions, a sexier waist, a simple art deco style inlay, nitrocellulose lacquer, straight string pull, and a unique genuine tweed covering over the moderately flamed Eastern Maple top.
Traditional Specifications:
-Handmade (no CNC used in construction)
-Thick Honduran Mahogany Back
-Curly Eastern Maple Top
-Honduran Mahogany Neck
-Kluson Keystone Tuners
-Tune-o-matic Bridge/Tailpiece
-Thin Nitrocellulose Lacquer
-Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbuckers
-24 5/8″ scale
-Cream body binding
-Amber top hat knobs
-Sunburst Finish
Modern Specifications:
-Stainless Steel Frets for glassy bends and increased fretlife
-Ebony Fingerboard for crisp attack
-Tweed covering on top in a Chevron pattern for a fresh look using traditional materials
-Lightweight mahogany and tailpiece
-Straight String Pull
-Re-styled body with slender waist
-Elegant inlay at the 12th fret
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Jason Z. Schroeder Radio Lane Singlecut
Schroeder Radio Lane Singlecut in Tweed Burst
Jason Z. Schroeder Custom Guitars Radio Lane Singlecut Tweed Burst
Schroeder Radio Lane Singlecut Inlay
McNaught Guitars introduce new models – The D Series from McNaught Guitars
McNaught Guitars has a new line of guitars available called the D-Series. The D-Series McNaught Guitars are bolt-on style guitars and made exactly like all other McNaught Guitars: Handmade by David Thomas McNaught, painted by The Other Dave, and all done in house….nothing farmed out!
The McNaught D-Series guitars will feature a traditional bolt-on neck plate and have limited options. They will only come standard in solid colors.
The really good news is that these guitars will be priced well under $2000.00, which is very good for a handmade guitar, especially one from a master builder like David Thomas McNaught.
There will be 3 body styles to choose from:
1) DJ – a soloist style guitar
2) DS – a strat style with pickguard
3) DC – strat style without pickguard rear loaded.
Headstock choices include the G4 headstock or the all new Viper headstock. They come standard with a flatmount bridge, but a Hip-Shot or Floyd Rose can be added as an upgrade. The customer gets to choose the pickup configuration.
David Thomas McNaught working on new D-Series Guitar
McNaught Guitars D-Series Necks
McNaught Guitars New Viper Headstock
McNaught Guitars New Viper Headstock From The Rear
McNaught Guitars D-Series DJ Model
McNaught Guitars DJ Model Electric Guitar
David Thomas McNaught of McNaught Guitars – Full Tone Report Episode 1
David Thomas McNaught of McNaught Guitars is now doing a video series called the Full Tone Report. The Full Tone Report will cover a wide variety of guitar related topics. This is episode 1 of the Full Tone Report video series with David Thomas McNaught.
Enjoy!
Joe Till Guitars – Handmade Electric Guitars from Joe Till
Joe Till’s whole thing is to take a great piece of wood and see how nice of a guitar he can make out of it. Twelve years and 150 guitars later, He has developed an understanding of the instrument that gives him the confidence to offer them to buyers from around the world.
Joe tries to give his guitars the widest range of tones possible. Through creative switching and the right set of pickups, Joe’s guitars can cover all the bases. Warm, fat, buttery, twangy, spanky, jangly, snarly… And when you add piezo pickups to the mix you get all those acoustic adjectives, as well.
Joe Till currently offer two different models which can be modified endlessly. The TG-100 “Solo” and the TG-250 “Lady on the Beach”. Besides their shapes, the major difference between them is their scale lengths. The Solo is built around the ultra-fast 24 3/4 inch scale (think Gibson) and the TG-250 comes standard with a Fenderesque 25 1/2 inch scale. The Lady can also be ordered with shorter or longer scales.
Joe Till Guitars are completely handmade. Joe uses a few power tools like a bandsaw, routers and sanders. But nothing more technologically advanced than what you might have found in Leo’s shop in the late forties. The handwork is emmence. Handsawing, carving, shaping. And hours and hours of hand sanding. I’ve estimated that my hands run back and forth across the top of a guitar about 90,000 times. That’s 3 sanding strokes a minute for 8 hours. Then there’s the neck, the back. Double that for the 9 coats of lacquer.
It’s shameful the way some of these guys toss around the word “handmade” anymore. Swishing around some 220 grit sandpaper after a robot spits out a nearly complete guitar does not qualify as a handmade guitar in my book.
To learn more about Joe Till’s Handmade Guitars, visit the Joe Till Guitars website at:
Joe Till Guitars
Joe Till TG-250 Setneck Myrtlewood Electric Guitar
Joe Till TG-100 Setneck Electric Guitar
Joe Till TG-250 Setneck Electric Guitar
Joe Till TG-250 Quilted Maple Electric Guitar
Joe Till TG-250 Setneck Rear Electric Guitar
