Mary designed “The Spar Guitar” around the top.
As the story goes, Denis Merrill found a log which had washed up on a beach during a boat race in Oregon. The log was old and the locals to the area told him it was part of an antique Tall Ship that had sunk off the coast in the 1800’s. The locals said, often times during rough seas and storms, parts of these old ships would surface and wash a shore.
As we got back into the car, Mary grabbed the only paper she could find, a Snickers candy bar wrapper, and began sketching the design for this guitar.
We combined the old 1800’s Sitka spruce top with African Blackwood back and sides to create a Deacon body for this project.
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A Native American theme was used on this Deacon guitar. The back and sides are South East Asian Rosewood with a 1959 Sitka spruce top, Brazilian Rosewood peg head, fingerboard, bridge and American Sycamore bindings.
This guitar was built for a Grammy Award Winning singer and songwriter in Norway. He chose Brazilian Rosewood for the back and sides with an Adirondack Spruce “double-top”. Bindings are Shag Bark Hickory sap wood which look like grained ivory used on vintage guitars.
Our customer wanted to honor his friend, Driver the Bulldog, by incorporating the dog’s image image into his MiniMac guitar. The dog inlay was done by Jimmi Wingert. The body is Cocobolo Rosewood.
The Black Knight guitar gets its inspiration from an old pinball arcade game. This SDG body uses curly German White Oak back and sides, Carpathian Spruce top and curly Maple accents.
“The McKnight” is a tip of the hat to honor the old pre-war era guitars. Curly Maple back and sides with a warm Sitka Spruce top darkened the tone of this little Deacon body. Simple Ivoroid rosette rings, body side bindings, fret board edge and peg head bindings complete this package contrasted by the full body “honey burst” finish.
Occasionally we get the inspiration to build some vintage-esque guitars and this HighLander is just the ticket to get our creative juices flowing. Brazilian RW back and sides, Adirondack Red Spruce top,
Hebrew Mosaic SDG guitar was designed for leading church worship. The back and sides are Cocobolo Rosewood with a master grade spruce top. It includes a unique 25.65″ – 24.9″ dual scale fret board.
