𝒯𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑒𝓃𝑔𝓇ü𝓃 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝓈𝓃𝒾𝓅!
Hope you all had a great time over crimmis! Personally, I’m exceptionally happy to be putting the final button on this crispy forest green Parsnip. This guitar is especially unique in that it’s got a longer than usual scale length weighing in at 26 inches. It’s loaded with some oem firebird pickups in an acrylic “tortesque” flush-mount pickguard (the classic standard option) trimmed with some fine black anodized mastery hardware and Dakaware knobs to boot. The body finish is a tinted nitro lacquer over a one piece mahogany body with the pores brushed clean before finishing to highlight texture, and French polish epoxy on the sapele neck with an ebony fingerboard.
aside from those parts and the tuners, everything down to the switch plate is made here in house. Sounds coming soon! Thanks for peeping.
No problem! Here’s the information about the Fink Instruments MFG Esper: The Fink Instruments MFG Esper is a remarkable arched top guitar celebrated for its outstanding performance and sleek design. Powered by a potent cedar top and sapele back, sides and neck, it delivers exceptional tight low end and lush highs. The stereo output features the proprietary acoustic string balanced hum-canceling magnetic pickup, and a Barbera Transducers Piezo Saddle linked to a stereo TRS jack. 🥇Incorporating ebony appointments with aluminum and mother of pearl inlays, adventure aerodynamic features and cutting-edge stability technologies, the F.I.MFG Esper ensures exceptional stability and control, particularly during high-speed maneuvers. 💨 The F.I.MFG Esper is considered one of the most exclusive and prestigious archtops ever produced. 🪙 Its limited production run of just three units adds to its rarity, making it highly sought after by instrument enthusiasts and collectors worldwide. 🌎😺
Previously available on the stories, now available in post form for your continued enjoyment!
Here are a few fun little clips playing the Silvertone archtop ultra shortscale bass conversion (colloquially known as the Baby Bass around my one-man shop)
These come in at around 25” from nut to saddle, and after a neck reset to over-set the neck and raise the bridge height, plus a fretlesss conversion, they do a very sweet and convincing impression of an upright bass. Are they a perfect stand-in replacement? No. Do they sound cool and are as fun to play as they are to make? Yes. This one’s spoken for but luckily it’s not the first nor the last of these conversions that I’ve got up my sleeve. Inquire within if you’ve got a guitar you’d like converted and customized or if you’ve want something from the ground up and we’ll see what’s cookin in the kitchen.
Babe. Wake up. Babe. New baby bass, babe. Babe. New Baby bass just dropped.
The freshest out of the shop after a long long time of working repairs and taking some sweet seat time for pedal steel (practice and repair) Is this sweet Silvertone archtop, now converted to a fully featured fretless baby bass.
Full features include-
Custom manually machined brass tailpiece, pickup mount, pickguard brackets and volume knob
Hand carved flamed maple bridge
Vintage Bill Lawrence acoustic soundhole pickup, converted to mount on the cantilevered neck of an archtop.
And lastly, a full neck reset to purposefully overset the neck and squeeze a little more downward string force and sound projection out of this lovely solid spruce top. This standup bass in a sitdown package is already spoken for, but they’re as fun to make as they are to play. This one is spoken for, but Inquire within and the next can be yours.
The International Burrito Angels are making their debut on the @grandoleecho patio tomorrow April 19th 🌏 🌯 👼🏼
We’ll be playing three sets of @gramparsonsofficial music in celebration of his short, but impactful time in this realm!
Our friends @caravan222@theroamersroam and @mr.ellisbryant will be holding it down inside, so you’ll want to get there when doors open at 5:30pm as to not miss a single second of the action ❤️🔥😘
📸: @herban_cowboy
Edit: @shuga.dandy
Sounds promised. Sounds delivered.
Usually when I aim to get the best of both worlds on one thing, I usually end up with only the least desirable traits of either in that thing. This guitar is a major exception to that rule and I’m very proud of how it came out. Grab it while you can. There won’t be another one soon unless it’s commissioned.
Between time out of town on the road and immersing myself in pedal steel world, there hasn’t been much time to take care of the many guitar husks that I’ve accumulated over 2025, but the wheels are turning once again and this Bulgarian-made acoustic guitar was first on the chopping block to try out some plans I’ve had for prototyping parts. I received this guitar after it had been heavily worked on by another resto-mod luthier who had hastily slapped on a poorly fitted fingerboard and fretwork that looked like a pre-orthodontic smile. After making a new fingerboard from scratch with my proprietary bubble inlays and some handsome striping down the sides, I set to work installing a vintage hofner acoustic soundhole pickup, hand-cut hammered brass mounting plate and tailpiece damper, top mounted volume and tone controls with manually machined brass knobs and red enamel accents.
But the real juice is concentrated in the bridge/saddle design.
For a good long while I’ve been trying to cook up ways to make a switchable rubber bridge that doesn’t totally wreck your tuning and intonation. The mutes typically found on vintage fender Jaguars move the intonation point forward by roughly 1/4”, making anything played above the 7th or 8th fret eye wateringly sharp. With inspiration taken from the 7/11 Hotdog, the aluminum bridge body rotates with a stainless steel lever to swap between a height adjustable compensated brass saddle or an abrasion resistant polyurethane saddle. this keeps the saddle position consistent, and the string height dialed-in across materials.
The button it all up, this guitar sounds exceptionally sweet in baritone tuning thanks to its longer than normal 26.5” scale length and despite vague visual resemblance to Sloth from the Goonies, or perhaps a set of conjoined twins.
Dm me if you’re interested in adding this wild thing to your lineup, sounds and more details coming soon.
Thankew, I love you.
Who else is obsessed with a photobooth?!
Worked with my honey and made a batch of full strip and single image brass picture frames ✨
We designed the single image frame with a little kick stand so you can place it on your desk or nightstand and the full strip frame has a chain to hang on your wall!
These are perfect for your favorite photo of your lover or bestie or furry friend 🤍
We’re doing free shipping on all orders placed by Tuesday night for delivery by Valentine’s Day!
💌🌹🤍💌🌹🤍💌🌹🤍💌🌹🤍
Frames available on my site Monday 2/9 @11am
Just finished up this slick little batch of photostrip frames with Molly @jive_jewelry We’d been planning on making these for a hot minute and had a great time making them together. I whipped up the CAD/CAM work and cut the blanks on the CNC while Molly took care of silver soldering and detailing (I did solder ~one~ of them, she’s a very patient teacher.)
Frames are available as full strip wall hangers or single standalone frames on @jive_jewelry ‘s site February 9th at 11am. Free shipping for Valentines Day delivery until Tuesday night. These frames are only compatible with 1.5”x8” format strips. This is only our first run but we’re looking forward to cooking up more designs and in more formats in the future!
This time last year I was doing my first steel guitar mod, popping a TRS trigger switch on my BMI S12 to control the rotor speed of a Leslie simulator pedal, and then struggling through auld lang syne. This year turned out a little cooler than that, hitting the road as a professional guitar and steel tech for one of the greatest 20th century bands assembled, spending lots of time sitting in front of, under, and in steel guitars, and keeping builds warm on the bench. I don’t know how much I’ll be on the road this coming year, but expect to see lots more steel playin and fixin, as well as some weird studio instrument builds from lots of backed up inventory. Thank you all for thinking my little corner of the internet is good enough to keep an eye on, I love you. Stay safe and also cool.
I don’t know why I’m like this. I didn’t ask to be like this.
But thanks a million to Tyler Nuffer @theworldisnottnuff for trusting me to rebuild this whole ass Emmons even through it’s only my first time and the only published text written about the process is total word-salad penned by a man who clearly increasingly hates his typewriter more and more as the book goes on.
Also just for clarification- when I say I don’t know if this has been done before, I specifically mean a half stop on a raise (sharp change) in a push/pull guitar. I know we already have the 2nd lower half stop, and they also exist on all-pull guitars, but I’m new here and don’t have much experience-just lots of interest and curiosity.
Thank you, sorry there aren’t any magnets.
Maybe next time.
