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The guitar you see me holding at the right is a copy of a J. Frog design (seen here to left), originally built back in 1988 for George Lynch of Dokken and Lynch Mob fame. You can buy yours at Ed Roman Guitars in Las Vegas! (Tell him Flynn sent you...)

I've always wanted a copy of that bones guitar, and now my version is featured on Dremel.com! The entire thing is one block of Mahogony (mine), and totally 3 Dimensional. I had made another version like this, but the body ended up cracking, and I messed up the neck install because I carved the bones before doing the routing for the neck port. I didn't realize I would loose the flat surfaces from the carving (duh). I ended up giving it to a friend since it was more wall art at that point anyway. The only picture I have is this one at Halloween from 1987.

J. Frog Original

I had the pleasure to meet George once. Monsters of Rock Tour in the Foxboro Mass Stadium. When I discovered we had tickets, I immediately started to build him a guitar with my Jester design. I brought it to the show, snuck back-stage and gave it to him with the paint-job still wet! (I was short for time). I've just always loved building these things.

My first guitar was a Memphis Les Paul when I turned 16. It was a cheap plywood copy of a truly classic player. I found it for sale in downtown Hartford CT, and proceeded to nag my sister to help me get it. $50 and a birthday wish later, I was jammin! I then went on to tear the guitar apart to make my first guitar, in a slightly more 80's metal mode that I was entwined in. Seen here at eleft, it's a BC Rich Warlock copy with white and black stripes! I've gotten a little more creative since then.

I was so into the Luthiery and making my own guitars, I was able to learn some real repair and building techiniques during the summer of 1987 at the National Guitar Summer Workhsop held at the Canterbury School in Connecticut. There, I learned from two of the coolest luthiers from Martin Guitars. I can't remember thier names, but I do remember how cool they were! I even got to do a song with the Hooters drummer Dave Uosikkenen, playing Dokken's It's not Love!

Above - The new custom bass guitar, I call"Mr. Bassey"
Below - The original 6-string I made in 1987

PERSONAL SIGNATURE SERIES
I've been inspired recently to get back to my musical roots, which began with 80's music, and oddly enough, guitar building. Mr. Bassey (the new skeleton) is the first custom axe of a series I'm building. The new guitars were unveiled at the January Tr1ple Threat Showcase on January 11th. Incidently, all the bodies came out of the same 7' long piece of Mahogony. These are not for sale and are part of my personal collection that I play with my bands. Please contact me if you would like a custom design of your own.

MR. BASSEY

As described above, Bassey was originally a six-string design. The carving is what truly makes this guitar. Besides with a little ingenuity, you can apply the design from anything to whatever you want, really. The shapes were the same, so the transistion was minimal. Besides, I wanted a few changes myself. The guitar has Bass-Line pick-ups ($60), an Ibanez Neck and bridge plate, and a 500k volume pot, and 250k Tone. Eventually, I will be adding EL-wire to the outline of the bones to match my Mr. Yellow persona in The Violets. Not to blow my own horn, but this thing plays real nice and has a GREAT sound.

THE AQUARIAN AGE

The Aquarian is the next one done in signature guitar series. Maude Wiltshire is a rocker thru and thru. When we started to talk about her ideal guitar, she was adamant about the SG. "I've always wanted one" she said. "Gotta be classic Gibson the whole way..." But since I gotta be different, this one will have a fiber optic star constellation of Aquarius that will cycle and twinkle brightly and be edged with blue ELwire. The Hardware is Allparts stock (bridge, tail and pots), again 500 and 250K pots. The pick-ups are replacement Les Pauls that I got off of ebay. They sound great! And the neck is from a Bradley Les Paul. Feels good to play....

ULTRAVIOLET

I'm also building a killer custom Fender Mustang. I wanted to scale down the length a bit to make the guitar feel a little shorter, so I've moved the neck end into the body another 1.5" scaling the overall body length down, but not the neck itself. The Plan is to have this guitar completely light up underneath the checkerboard, then the pickgaurd will have a Violet painted with clear UV paint, so that when it's under blacklight, it will appear. I'm actually considering differen options.

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Super Huge Thanks to Alfred Werner at the FabLab in Brooklyn! Yes, I've been overheard giggling while using his bandsaw.

These are great axes, I'm tellin you!