Re: Aceman: check out these I built!
Ok....you're on my radar now!!
Seriously KILLER work man!!
Just curious....what is typical pricing for some of these?
thank you!
It totally depends on what you want.
See below. All prices include a hiscox hardshell case, Shirt, Strap and other tiny goodies. Shipment is not included neither is VAT when outside of the EU.
The SG style with these pickups (gold topped Prails), would be $1699 (ish, depends on EUR/Dollar rate, but it's in this ballpark generally).
The strat has a laminated walnut top on swamp ash, figured maple neck and fairly expensive pickups. Hence: $1999. With Seymour Duncan's SSL1's and without the lam top, it would be a LOT less (think, $1599)
The other two: market pricing for the body material makes it a fairly tricky situation but expect for the left one $1999 (single piece quilt maple, 9 piece neck, gotoh floating floyd, custom seymour duncans). The other one would be a bit less ($1899) because the materials are marginally less expensive.
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single piece padouk neck, ebony board, real MoP inlay, single piece korina back, figured maple top, nitro finish. Yeah, this won't be cheap. Or Will it?! Depends. I believe that $1999 isn't that exhorbitant for a handmade instrument? The inlay will set you back another $100, so let's make it $2099 for the version you're seeing here.
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These are kinda the bread 'n butter of my lineup. I designed these when I started and only last july finished the third one.
From right to left: Tele style with tele features but in an LP shape: $1599. Yes, same price as the strat without the visual gimmicks because making the wooden pickguard takes as much time and effort as carving and sanding a top
The middle one: same. $1599. It's black korina body with an ovangkol neck, ebony board. The right one: $1699 because of the SLIGHTLY more complicated wiring and extra pickup.
These two are kinda cool. The LP has a chambered body, trem, F holes and a laminated figured walnut back. The other is korina with maple. BOTH have a 17 piece neck (really, I counted). The right one will get a new neck, by the way, so I can actually reach that 22nd fret
(I'll make it a longer scale with 24 frets, to cover the upcoming gap between fretboard and pickup). That beind said... the LP is becaue of all its gimmicks $2599. Sorry... it just takes me so much more time to actually joint a separate back, glue it on, laminate it to the substrate core, chamber, carve and recess the top, etc etc.
THis one is a tricky beast. In its cheapest configuration (2 pickups, 1 volume, 1 toggle, 1 tone optional no charge), ash body, 5 piece maple neck, ebony board: $1499. Add more, like exotic timbers, carved top, elaborate electronics or what not and the price goes up. But I can do a LOT within this model and for that pricing. As long as it has a slab body of ash, korina or sapele, a 5 piece neck of timbers priced equally to maple and 2 humbuckers. Heck, even coil split is free if you so desire (what's the difficulty of wiring the red/white wire to a pot versus taping it off and tucking it away? none at all).
Same like the F-hole LP earlier but $2699 because of the third pickup, more complex wiring and third pickup
she wasn't done here at the time I took the picture, though. That's why the back cavity plate isn't installed and all the wires are visible. I'll post more of this one later (I'm reworking her to accept a new p90 design I cooked up).
Hope this all helps. I tried to choose photos of guitars I hadn't shown before but a bit of overlap is of course inevitable.
