The Team Josie Chopper Raffle to benefit Relay for Life
I received information about this raffle from Jason and Elizabeth Schroeder and I wanted to post it in order to help spread the word. It gives you a chance to win a guitar and 100% of the ticket sales go to a much needed cause. Please read below for more information…….
If you are interested in participating in our latest raffle to raise money for Relay for Life, please click the link below. RAFFLE TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED BY JUNE 1, 2010! The raffle will be held on June 4th at the Relay for Life event in Grand Forks, ND. Please visit www.josieshope.org where you can read about Josie and her life and her story.
See her video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KoeObksAzg.
Click on the link at the bottom of the email to see Josie’s guitar being built. We have 80 more tickets to sell and our goal is to raise $5,000 in her honor to help fight cancer. We hope to exceed this goal.
100% of ticket sales will go to Relay for Life on behalf of Team Josie. Josie Greenwood was the great-niece of Alan Greenwood, editor of Vintage Guitar Magazine, who died of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia before her 4th birthday. Frankly, I am frustrated and angry about stories like this that seem so common. We, at Schroeder Guitars are determined to help in any way we can to help find the cure. As you may or may not know, my brother Frank was recently diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer and after major surgery last week, he was told yesterday that the biopsies indicate that he is cancer free. Many of you participated in the Julianne Raffle for Breast Cancer:
(http://schroederguitars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1169). My aunt Julianne has been cancer free for nearly two years now. We want to help in the fight and we invite you to join us.
Paypal would not allow the Greenwood family to accept payment via their services so we are forced to do this the “old-fashioned” way but please do not let that prevent you from participating. (If you have a better alternative also, PLEASE let us know or contact Joe Greenwood at JGreenwood@gfherald.com or joe@blackwoodpress.com) You can send a check for $50 for each ticket (Pay to the order of “Phyllis Anderson” who is Josie’s aunt) to Josie’s parents:
Joe and Nancy Greenwood
1302 Cottonwood Street
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Check out the guitar here with further details:
http://schroederguitars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1382
Rendering of the Schroeder guitar that someone will win!
Schroeder Guitars For Your Viewing Pleasure
Jason Schroeder is making some really beautiful guitars. I came across some of his recent work and wanted to add them to the site for everyone to check out.
Schroeder Redwood Chopper Electric Guitar
Schroeder Single Cut Electric Guitar
Schroeder Radio Lane Model
Schroeder Shorty Model Electric Guitar
Schroeder Redwood Shorty
Schroeder Tour Guitar Review
I decided to get on the list for the Schroeder Tour Guitar because I had always been a fan of Jason Schroeder’s work but had only seen his guitars on the internet. I really wanted to get the chance to play one. This is a very cool thing that Schroeder Guitars does. They have a tour guitar that travels around from player to player to give guitarist a chance to live with one of his guitars for a week or two. You can’t beat that! After all, sometimes you pick up a guitar in a store and really love it and then buy it, bring it home and, well, you just don’t bond with it as much as you thought you would. The tour guitar gives you a chance to play it day in and day out and really get a feel for it. The tour guitar is definitely a great idea and I have loved living with it for the past two weeks. I am a McNaught fanatic and my main guitar is a McNaught Vintage Single Cut with mahogany neck and back, flamed maple top, Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard, and WCR Goodwood Pickups. Is the Schroeder Tour Guitar up against some very stiff competition? You bet it is! I am used to playing one of the finest hand built guitars in the world!
Schroeder Tour Guitar
The Schroeder Tour Guitar features a one piece quilt maple top, Black Limba back, Indian Rosewood neck, Ebony fingerboard, Bryan Gunsher Smokestacks pickups, and stainless steel frets. The first thing I noticed when picking up the guitar, is that it is a pretty light guitar. I immediately fell in love with the bare Indian Rosewood neck. The guitar is very comfortable and has a nice balanced feel to it. The construction on the Schroeder Tour Guitar is top notch. It is a very solid guitar and the fretwork was just perfect. This is why I like handbuilt guitars. The attention to detail and quality is usually far superior to mass produced guitars and the Schroeder is no exception. Keep in mind this guitar has been traveling the world with the signatures on the case to prove it. It has held up extremely well so you could definitely say Schroeder Guitars are building instruments to last.
The neck on the guitar is 1.75″ at the nut. It is actually a pretty wide neck. Jason told me he has trimmed the neck down to about 1.7″ at the nut on current guitars. I used to play all 7 string guitars so I adjusted very quickly and was not bothered by the neck at all. It was actually quite comfortable for me. Did I mention the bare Indian Rosewood neck? I loved the feel of the neck! The stainless steel frets make bends effortless. I wasn’t expecting to notice much of a difference between stainless steel frets and nickel frets, but I definitely enjoyed them on this guitar and would choose them for a build for myself. I also really liked the Schaller mini-locking tuners. They have a nice, smooth feel when tuning. I should mention I didn’t have to tune the guitar much at all. Even after traveling around the globe, it stays in tune! A sure sign of a quality constructed guitar.
Schroeder Tour Guitar Black Limba Back
Schroeder Indian Rosewood Neck
I think I read that the guitar is a beast tonewise in another review and I must agree. I had ordered a Li’l Dawg 5E3 D-Lux amp (Li’l Dawg Amps) and luckily it arrived while I still had the guitar. This gave me a chance to try out both the tube amp and the tour guitar. I must say they both sound very nice. The tour guitar is definitely a beast tonewise. The one thing I would change is that I would add a coil tap tone knob. I just love coil tapping my humbucker pickups for more tonal variety, but this is a personal thing and something I would do for my own build. The tour guitar is very resonant and this you can feel as you play it. The notes jump off the fretboard. Playing it through the Li’l Dawg D-Lux, the tone was balanced, thick, fat, and warm. Never sounding harsh, thin, or brittle.
How does the guitar hold up against the McNaught? Well, it actually holds up very well. Both of these companies are putting out amazing hand built guitars. Going head to head with a McNaught is a big deal and the Schroeder Guitar was up for the challenge. Would I sell my McNaught to buy a Schroeder? The simple answer is….NO! The more important question after spending time with a Schroeder Guitar is this….Do I want to add a Schroeder Guitar to my McNaught VSC? The answer here is….YES!
Schroeder Tour Guitar
We live in a great time with a lot of boutique guitar builders out there building some of the finest guitars available. The McNaught and the Schroeder have a certain magic and vibe about them. This is the biggest similarity between the Schroeder and the McNaught. While they are both very different, they both have that mojo about them that you can’t explain. It is not about which one is better than the other or which one do I want. It is how do I get both!
I want to thank Jason and Elizabeth for getting me on the list and letting me live with one of your guitars for the past couple of weeks. Schroeder Guitars is building some top notch guitars! Thanks for letting me be a part of it!
Thanks again!
Ron
Interview with Jason Schroeder of Jason Z. Schroeder Custom Guitars
Interview by Ron of Boutique Guitar Resource
Boutique Guitar Resource: Describe a typical day for you and Elizabeth at Schroeder Guitars.
Jason Schroeder: We are fortunate to own and live on the property where our shop is. A typical day starts around 6 am, with LOTS of coffee! Then getting the kids ready for school and dropping them off. Then it is back to the shop to answer email and any phone calls from the previous evening. We have clients in Asia, Europe, and all over the US so we usually have a dozen or so emails to reply to. Price quotes to prepare, clients to report to on progress, parts to check on from suppliers. Then I generally will set out the priority list for the day. I will usually make phone calls and then by 9, I am in the shop for most of the rest of the day.
In the shop, I start the day with wet-sanding and doing finish prep work. Then it is on to the first spraying of the day before I get really dusty! I then do any glue ups that are necessary (tops joined, fingerboards glued to necks, tops glued to backs, etc.). Most of the time I will do all of my wood surfacing next and then the rest of the day depends on what is in the cue. I often will do several fingerboards at a time (we cut all of them in house), if we are working on several necks, it is cutting headstock angles, routing truss rod channels, radiusing fingerboards, shaping headstocks. If we are working on bodies, it is shaping body outlines, routing pickup cavities, neck pockets, electronics cavities, or cutting binding channels on the pin router. I try to save the really dirty work for the afternoon so that I can continue to pop into the spray booth and apply coats of finish on guitars without contaminating the booth. So in the afternoons I typically do my neck and top carves. I still do all of this by hand and it gets insanely dusty in the main part of the shop! We have a main shop that is approximately 900 square feet and then we have a clean room/finish booth that is about 300 square feet. So it is nice to have that separation. The clean room is reserved for final assembly, electronics, and setups. When we have guitars ready for final assembly, I will generally dedicate an entire day for final fitting of hardware, fitting the nut, final setup, and intonation.
Usually around 6 or so I am done with woodwork and finish work. I learned a long time ago that most mistakes and injuries happen when you work tired, so if I start feeling too fatigued, I will call it a day. I typically come inside and answer emails that require immediate attention. I will stop for dinner and a break for a couple hours. After the kids go to bed, it is back to the computer to do any additional correspondence for the next couple hours. By that time we are usually pretty beat down and it is bed time. Wake up and do it all over again!! The glamorous life of a guitar builder!
Elizabeth is at the computer and on the phone most of the day too while she watches our newborn son. She handles most of the communication and cost estimates. She also does the purchasing, coordinates shipping, does the books, and does most of the running around for supplies. Elizabeth also does most of the inlay work for the company, she does all of the headstock inlays, almost all of the fingerboard inlays, and wet sands finished guitars in preparation for buffing. She is a life saver and a critical part of the success of the business.
Daniel is my main shop guy and works almost full time. He spends most of his day doing the busy work that doesn’t makes sense for me to do. He makes knobs, does the wood prep, final sanding of wood pieces, etc. He is a very detail oriented and does a fantastic job. Most importantly, he loves building guitars! He brings a really positive vibe to the process and makes the shop a really fun place to work. I tell him all the time that someday I am going to be working for him!
Boutique Guitar Resource: When did you start playing guitar and why did you pick the guitar?
Jason Schroeder: My dad is the reason I play and build guitars. He is an incredible guy. Just one of those guys who can fix anything. He was always working on a car, doing stained glass artwork, he even made our TV set from a Heath Kit from Radio Shack!! He also build the antenna and he rigged up this control for the antenna that was this monsterous 15′ diameter chunk of metal on the roof. You would dial the antenna control for whatever channel you were on and you would hear this loud hum. There was a motor attached to the antenna that made it rotate to the proper direction. I can still picture his hand written numbers on that dial!
But more importantly, my dad was a guitar player. In spite of the fact that he is missing the index finger on his left hand (the result of a gun accident when he was 12), he was the choir director for our church growing up. In fact he still is. He had this beautiful 1976 Ovation Balladeer that I used to sneak out of its case when I was only 6-7 years old. I remember playing to his Beatles records and learning chords from song books with those little chord diagrams.
My parents helped me buy my first guitar when I was in 6th grade. It was a crappy SG copy that refused to stay in tune! I joined my first band in 7th grade playing bass and I ended up playing bass in jazz band through high school. My dad helped me build my first instrument, a bass, my junior year in high school. I still remember the day we went to Southern Lumber to pick out the wood for the wings of the neck through. I LOVED seeing this beautiful wood. I loved the possibilties of making an instrument with it. We built it in the garage. I remember how mad my mom was for having red sawdust in every square inch of the garage!! But when Satriani came out with Surfing with the Alien, I was hooked again on guitar. I remember playing Always with Me, Always with You for the talent show my senior year.
Boutique Guitar Resource: What kind of music are you into and do you have a favorite type of music you like to play in the shop?
Jason Schroeder: I was very fortunate to have a dad and an older brother with great taste in music. My dad had a great record collection with bands like the Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Jim Croce, and, of course, the Beatles. My brother had records like Journey, Boston, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, AC/DC, and Ozzy. I was always a huge Van Halen fan. I was in 6th grade in 1984 when that record came out. Van Halen brought me to Eric Clapton which led me to the blues which led me to Stevie Ray Vaughn which led me to Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, Duane Allmann and Dickey Betts, Jeff Beck, and Eric Johnson. So I love blues based rock. Stevie Ray led me to Albert Collins, BB King, Albert King, and Buddy Guy. I also love old traditional acoustic blues like Robert Johnson and Leadbelly. Newer guys I really like are guys like Doyle Bramhall III. I also really like some of the young guys who are great singers like James Morrison (not the Doors Jim Morrison) and Gavin DeGraw. I also still love a lot of heavier stuff like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains. That was such a great time in music during the 90s. We listen to the local rock station 106X in the shop. Its a great mix of classic rock and newer rock.
Boutique Guitar Resource: What made you take the leap from just playing guitars to building guitars?
Jason Schroeder: Not being able to afford the guitar that I wanted!! That and not being able to find the options I wanted on production guitars. I found that I could build a guitar for about 10%-15% of what I would have to pay for one.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Are you a self taught builder or did you have a mentor help you out in the beginning?
Jason Schroeder: 100% self taught. When I built my first 6 string guitars I was going to school at Chico State University. I was just about to graduate college and all I wanted to do was build guitars! Chico happens to be about 20 minutes from Paradise, California which is where Wayne Charvel had a shop. I went up and talked to Wayne and asked him if I could work for him. He told me sure for $5,000, or something like that. So I responded, “You are going to pay me $5,000 to work for you and learn to build guitars?” He said, “No, no. You pay ME $5,000!” as a starving college kid, I simply didn’t have the money or inclination but that was my stimulus to figure it out myself. I read every book I could find on the subject from cover to cover. And made a lot of mistakes early on!! But after a while you learn your methods and figure out what works and what doesn’t. I still have a stack of old bodies and necks that I screwed up on as i learned to build.
Boutique Guitar Resource: There are a lot of great small luthiers out there. If you could pick one builder to build a custom guitar for you, who would it be?
Jason Schroeder: I would never be able to handle the wait on a custom build!! Seriously, though. That is a tough one. There are so many guys building great guitars right now. But probably Jeff Traugott. His guitars are so beautiful. Simple and elegant. Top notch materials.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Since picking just one builder is pretty tough, what other guitar builders do you admire?
Jason Schroeder: I think one of the most creative builders ever was Jimmy D’Aquisto. He was just a genius. He was the kind of guy that you can tell went to sleep thinking about guitars, dreamt about guitars in his sleep, and built guitars all day long. I can identify with that. I also love Bob Benedetto’s approach to building and his sense of style – plus he is just a fantastic human being. He has done so much for the art of guitar building. I also really enjoyed reading “Clapton’s Guitar” about Wayne Henderson. Plus he is a fantastic bluegrass player. Paul Reed Smith and Joe Knaggs have done so much for the electric guitar.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Looking at your guitars, you seem to get your hands on some very nice wood. What do you look for when picking wood for a guitar and do you have any advice for someone that wants to pick their own wood for their custom guitar build?
Jason Schroeder: Finding good wood is a part time job!! I am always investing in wood. I remember a conversation with Jeff Traugott where he told me he might be wealthy were it not for his wood budget! Some might argue that you can make a great guitar from inferior wood (the Taylor pallet guitar or the Benedetto knotty pine archtop come to mind), but I think it definitely helps to start with great wood. I look for resonant and properly dried timber. It also depends on where that wood will be used on the guitar. Neck wood has to be stable and preferably dense but not too heavy. Wood (among others things) strongly influences tone. You have to consider the “tone cocktail” that you are creating. Some woods affect attack, some impact tone and sustain. Then geometry can impact how a note resonates, if it hits you in the chest or if it blooms or swells. So my advice for someone who wants to pick wood would be to ask lots of questions and choose a builder you trust, not someone who is selling you something because they got a deal on it! I would also remind guys that there some very plain pieces of wood that will sound fantastic compared to some of the prettiest woods you can find! Another point is that I get some pretty crazy requests and sometimes I just have to pass on an order if I don’t feel comfortable with how I perceive the guitar will sound. That said, I do tend to experiment a bit if I am confident it will have a nice affect on tone.
Boutique Guitar Resource: What are some of your favorite wood combinations to use for a build?
Jason Schroeder: I am fairly traditional when it comes to tonewood. I love Honduran mahogany as a back wood. It just sounds balanced and sweet when amplified. I prefer eastern hard maple for tops. It has a crisper tone and tighter high end presense than softer western maple and it has sweet high end without being harsh. I think that Honduran mahogany necks and Brazilian rosewood necks are my favorite in terms of tone and feel. Mahogany is warm and balanced. The naked feel of rosewood for a neck is just addicting. Some people say rosewood necks are too mid-rangey but I don’t find that with my guitars. Brazilian is so sonically alive and colorful. It has complex overtones that you don’t hear with other woods.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Do you have a preference in wood for fretboards?
Jason Schroeder: Ebony is my favorite choice for fingerboards. The way I describe it is that ebony boards don’t affect tone as much as attack of the note. Ebony is so dense and hard the notes jump off the fingerboard. The snap can be rolled off with the tone and really helps cut through a mix in live situations.
Boutique Guitar Resource: What about frets? Do you prefer nickel or stainless steel frets and why?
Jason Schroeder: It is honestly hard for me to play nickel frets now! String bends and vibratos are so glassy and smooth with stainless steel frets. While it is a bit more difficult to work with stainless frets and it wears tools much more quickly, the benefits far outweigh the inconvenience.
Boutique Guitar Resource: How long does it take you to build a guitar and how many do you manage to build per month?
Jason Schroeder: That is the million dollar question! I am fairly back-ordered. Wait times for a custom are about a year out but it is totally dependent on the complexity of the build and how many changes there are along the way. Actual build time in terms of man hours is not that long but the process takes a while for custom builds because of all of the options we offer and services we provide. We literally allow the client to pick every piece of lumber for his guitar and then many times the build is a moving target as the client nails down specs. I also do all my own finish work and use nitro which takes quite bit longer to apply and cure than poly.
For those who don’t want to wait for a Schroeder custom, we do have a line called “Ready to Ship” or RTS that I build to my specs and put out for purchase. It is a great way for me to build guitars more efficiently and sneak in some R&D concepts that can be incorporated into future customs. This has motivated a few guys to have me do a “Builder’s Choice” custom build where they provide some basic specs and then just say, “Make a great guitar!” That is all kinds of fun for me. Particularly if I know the client. I can then put some personal touches into the guitar that really make it a special instrument for them.
Boutique Guitar Resource: What part of the building process do you enjoy most?
Jason Schroeder: There are several critical moments in guitar building where you see really rapid progress that is extremely gratifying. First of all, planing a rough piece of wood to see the beautiful grain and figure of a piece of quilted maple or Brazilian rosewood or flamed Limba. Then staining a top to enhance the wood grain and seeing it pop for the first time. The top in particular goes through a very rough period as it is being carved where even a 5A quilt looks totally devoid of figure. So to see it stained and see the figure come to life with the 3D contours carved is really incredible. It is also a great moment when I unclamp a neck from being glued to the body and for the first time the neck and body can be held in your lap like a guitar. And of course the first strum after the guitar has been set up and hear it make music! That is the ultimate.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Give us a run down of your current guitar models that you offer and briefly describe them.
Jason Schroeder: We basically have 4 basic body designs that all others are based off of.
Chopper: The Chopper model is based off of the first 6 string guitars I designed and built in the mid 90s. In fact the guitar that I built around 1994 is still my main guitar. I later made a guitar with this body style that had a chopper motorcycle inlaid into the fingerboard and some other chopper type elements, like an Arlen Ness kickpeg for a volume knob, ghost flames painted on the back of the guitar, Baron cross shaped backplate, and 44 mag bullets featured throughout. It got a lot of attention and became the namesake of the model.
Doublecut: The first custom ordered guitars that I built were based on the double cut shape. It is still the most popular model and has very unique contours in the cutaways. We have recently started doing flattops with the same body shape to give more of a Fender vibe with a little different style.
Traditional Singlecut: This is another popular design that I was asked to design early on for a client. I modified the traditional singlecut shape to have more of a D’Aquisto Solo type upper bout. This model led to the development of the Radio Lane package which is more of a 59 spec model with a thicker mahogany back, slightly thinner maple top than previous models, and steeper headstock angle. I took liberties in revising the traditional design with an ebony board, straight string pull and optional tweed covered top.
Shorty: I designed the Shorty after a client saw a picture online of a doublecut from an oblique angle. He was very excited about what he thought was a new model and asked if I had made one with shorter upper horn. I said no but I could! So I put pencil to paper and drew the body. We made several very successful prototypes of that model. The shorty is similar to the doublecut but has shorter upper horn and shorter scale, thus the name! It is a great, compact guitar that has fantastic access to the upper frets. We have also done a few flattop versions of this model that work extremely well with P90s.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Out of the guitar models that you design and build, do you have have a favorite?
Jason Schroeder: The Chopper is definitely my favorite just because that has been my main guitar for so long. It just feels right to me. I really would love to own one of each eventually because I gig regularly with my band Clear Cut. It is really nice to have different guitars for different tones. But the Chopper is a great compromise between singlecut and doublecut. It balances well and is the most original design that I build.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Tell us a little about your shop and the roles of your employees at Schroeder Guitars?
Jason Schroeder: It is basically me, my wife Elizabeth, and Daniel. See above for different roles. A local acoustic builder, James Russell, also helps with QA/QC and setups although more and more I am doing this in-house. I still love when another expert set of eyes can look at the guitars before they leave. And James is a fantastic builder. But final setup is another very enjoyable part of the build.
Boutique Guitar Resource: What do you see for the future of Schroeder Guitars? Do you have an idea of how big you would like the company to get?
Jason Schroeder: We have a lot of exciting opportunities coming up in the next few months that could spawn some growth. Guitars that will be featured in major manufacturers promotional videos and guitars going out on tour with Grammy Award winning bands and other known musicians. So we’ll see what happens!
Boutique Guitar Resource: Your guitars are all built by hand. Do you ever think of adding a CNC machine or do you prefer to keep building by hand?
Jason Schroeder: I think that at some point it is inevitable. Right now it is more efficient for me to continue doing it the old fashioned way because of the learning curve and programming a CNC. But as we build the same basic models and I see what models sell, it becomes more clear that it could really improve productivity. At the moment though, I am still really enjoying the hand processes and the freedom that it allows. We are using a pin router now for routing pockets and body shapes. This a step in that direction. As I tell people, we have moved from 19th century construction techniques to 20th century!! I also have a duplicarver that I don’t use that much because I can carve a top or a neck faster by hand with smaller tools.
Boutique Guitar Resource: Well, I want to thank you for taking the time to answer my questions Jason. For our final question, do you have any new designs that you are working on that you want to talk about?
Jason Schroeder: I just announced the new Radio Lane model, which is a singlecut with modified body outline but similar specs and dimensions. The really cool feature is the optinal tweed covered top that is done by Jeff Earl of JDesigns. Jeff does all of the cabinets for Fargen Amps and others. Great guy and a perfectionist. I did a sunburst nitro finish on it and it just looks and feels great. The back and neck are gloss nitro. The thing sounds incredible. It is a very responsive and toneful instrument.
I also have a new production model doublecut with a really fresh and modern look unlike anything I have seen before. This has been our secret project for a few months. It should be out early next year.
The new Schroeder stoptail is prototyped and we will be receiving the new models in a month or so. That is a really exciting development for us. To be able to have more control over the quality of the bridges that go on the guitars is very reassuring. And it just looks fantastic. It really compliments the Schroeder body designs and headstock design.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to talk to you Ron.
I would like to thank Jason Schroeder for taking the time to answer the questions and his wife, Elizabeth, for putting Jason and I in contact for the interview. Thanks to both of you! Please visit the Schroeder Guitars website at Jason Schroeder Custom Guitars.
Ron
Boutique Guitar Resource
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
For more information visit:
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
