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I posted this clip a while back. Re-posting it because Juan’s playing and his video recordings always sound so good to me. He’s using a CCII polepiece pickup plugged into an Elektra 185 amp.

I built this Roadmaster to bring to the Fretboard summit this August in Chicago but I’ve had a bunch of stuff come up and can’t make it this year. So it’s now available at Thunder Road Guitars PDX. Go check it out if you’re in the area. Some details… maple neck .975″ to 1.000″ 40’s Epiphone soft “V” profile, lightweight pine body and my SV polepiece pickups. The feathers are cut out of vintage bakelite scraps and inlayed into an off white Lucite pick guard. All of the hardware is lightly aged so the guitar has a nice NOS vintage look to it. All of my finishes are 100% nitrocellulose. The vintage plywood used for the case came out of a house my granddad built in 1953. It’s set up with JS112’s and is super fun to play. Feel free to email if you have any more questions.

I love seeing my parts on other peoples projects! The tele has one of my SV pickups and Tele vibrato. Photo by Daniel Abernot. The Gibson also has my Tele Vibrato and is a good example of a string tension bar setup. Photo by Henry Nagle.

Bjørn stopped by my shop last April on his way to VLV to pickup a pickup for his 1956 Silvertone. He’s a super nice guy and a. I’m need steal a few licks from this! Check him out.

Pat’s has 3 shows coming up in Europe starting end of July. Check him out if you can!