~ New Arrivals are items that are immediately available, recently unveiled, or of special interest. DAG represents many custom built items that DON'T necessarily appear here in the New Arrivals section, so be sure to browse through the builder pages to see each builder's line of available models. If you are interested in something from a DAG builder and don't see it here in the New Arrivals section, or if you are interested in custom work - call or write us! ~
Ruokangas / Mad Professor 10 year Anniversary Set
A VERY SPECIAL NEW ARRIVAL..
Ruokangas Guitars and Mad Professor teamed up three years ago to build a perfect match of guitar and amplifier to celebrate both companies' 10-year Anniversary. The goal was to calibrate an electric guitar, tube amp and speaker cabinet to function as One. The out-of-this-world result was finally exposed at The NAMM Show 2006. Since then the set has traveled through a number of shows and exhibitions gathering countless dropped jaws... And now, finally, The Ultimate Match Made in Finland is available through DAG!
If an aged single-malt Scotch could be represented by a sound, this would be it!...
Introducing Two-Rock's stand-alone buffered effects loop interface for use with a variety of outboard effects. This item is essential with non- buffered loop models, including the Two-Rock Classic Series, Kimock Signature, Mayer Signature, K&M Custom, and others. The Two-Rock buffered effects loop interface (ELI) is an effective tool for the guitarist wishing to utilize a myriad of outboard effects with any guitar amplifier having preamp output and power amp input jacks..
Filling the shoes of a "T-Style" builder at DestroyAllGuitars is no easy task, in fact, it's a rather tall-order where only the absolute finest would stand a chance. It was after a somewhat lengthy and exhaustive search, while still empty handed, that we stumbled upon Chihoe Hahn at his NAMM 2008 booth..
The Mario Beauregard MB - slots available for 2009!
ALERT!! Beauregard "MB" slots available for a limited time. As the direct sales rep for Mario Beauregard's highly sought after and evolutionary "MB" guitar, we're quite excited to announce that we have now opened up a limited amount of slots for the upcoming year. We expect to fill them rather quickly so if interested, now is the time to move..
In celebration of the welcoming of master luthier David Myka to the DestroyAllGuitars family, we are thrilled to present to you one of David's modern masterpieces; The MadCedar.
BODY - one piece alder, hand carved shallow relief, NECK - 25 1/2" scale, maple back, rosewood board, large frets, 12" radius, nitro finish headstock and heel, back of neck fine sanded and oiled, BODY FINISH - thin tinted hand rubbed varnish and satin poly, PICKUPS - Fralin..
If you don't see it - we can build it for you! Lately we've noticed that a lot of folks don't quite realize that Destroy All Guitars is your source for custom built instruments. People are used to coming to the site to see all the existing instruments but we want you to know with no uncertainty that DAG is your prime source for ordering your dream custom instrument. Many of the luthiers in the DAG collective have made themselves available specifically through DAG to build instruments to order, to your specs, according to your imagination..
For sale we have a stunning Nik Huber Orca made with the classic combination of a Curly Mahogany body and a beautifully flamed Eastern Maple top. It will be a while before we get another so get while the getting is good!!
This Amber Burst is the third of a trio of Klepper Single Cut guitars. This guitar is such a beautiful instrument! It's an incredible bargain, with big beautiful tone and an ease of playability that folks often pay a much bigger price tag for.
Please welcome original and dead-on replica amp builder Headstrong Amplifiers to Destroy All Guitars! If it's great Blackface tone that you are looking for, Headstrong is the finest to be found...Headstrong Amplifiers is the premiere replica amp company in the industry offering dead-on Blackface and Tweed replica amplifiers. Headstrong's 1964 Princeton® Reverb replica, the Lil' King Reverb amp as well as their hand wired copy of the 1964 Deluxe Reverb® amp, the Royal Reverb amp, are, in our opinion, the finest re-issues being offered today with tone far superior than that of all others available.
DAG welcomes luthier Mark Lacey to the collective. We offer this expo page as an introduction to Lacey's work.
Mark Lacey's career in building musical instruments began in 1974 when he attended The London College of Furniture & Interior Design. The college offered a three year full time course in Musical Instrument Technology. Lacey spent the first two years building mostly early fretted instruments from the renaissance and baroque periods. These included lutes, guitars, citerns and viols. During his final year at college he concentrated on building modern fretted guitars...
DAG welcomes luthier Frank Verrilli to the collective. We offer this expo page as an introduction to Verrilli's work..
"I like a guitar to look like it's alive, and has some character, having a comfort and looseness about it that makes it very approachable, so you want to hold it and play, and not have to worry about scratching it. Its sort of a work in progress that gets better with time." Frank Verrilli
Gene has done it again with this stunning Polaris White fully hollow "Wood" model. With a master-grade cedar top, under a stunning Polaris White finish, loaded with a set of Lollar Imperial Low-Winds, this guitar truly has the tone of the gods.
We are proud to unveil Victor Baker's masterpiece! The "Model 35 / Quilt Top": With it's Quilted Maple top, Honduras Mahogany body, Honduras Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard, Lindy Fralin pickups, Ice Tea Sunburst Finish and quartersawn sitka spruce center block, this guitar proves to be one of the finest 335 style guitars ever available.
This groundbreaking guitar brings the beautiful clarity and immediacy of the Viennese guitar tradition into contemporary archtop design. This guitar was designed in collaboration with guitarist Frank Vignola to showcase the unique vision and style he is renowned for.
This deep cherry sunburst Erotic Dalmat is a dream to play weighing in at 7lbs with a super fast neck giving you full, easy access to all 24 glorious sounding frets.
This natural Erotic Dalmat is a dream to play weighing in at 7lbs with a super fast neck giving you full, easy access to all 24 glorious sounding frets.
* 1-piece Claro walnut top * Chambered Swamp Ash body * Lightly tinted poly finish on body * 1-piece maple neck * Pau Ferro fingerboard * Rosewood peghead veneer with inlaid pearl logo * Vintage tint satin nitro finish on neck * Chrome hardware * DiMarzio custom Swantone Humbucker pickups * 3-way pickup selector switch * Coil splitter switch for single coil mode * Rosewood truss rod cover with inlaid pearl logo
Louis Electric's Ferrari Combo Amplifier breaks new ground and delivers an inspired design that combines auto racing aesthetics and rock and roll sonics.
The Ferrari's control layout will be familiar to owners of his celebrated KR12, but that's where the similarity ends..
McCartney style bass but made with a real viola body, solid spruce top, solid maple back and sides. A rock maple spine from neck pocket to tailpiece takes the string tension, leaving the top free to vibrate. 34 inch scale, 12 inch radius, graphite reinforced neck. P bass type pickup with volume knob, suspended over the body.
Built around a vintage Rickenbacker horseshoe pickup from a ten string lap steel, 8.8 K ohms. It growls. The pickup is mounted so that it can be slid from bridge position to neck position and everywhere in between. It can be slid by hand while playing and has height adjusting mechanisms that assure that the strings go through the pickup at the optimal height in all positions.
This is a Pheo Hotrod, that is, a modification of an existing (unrestorable) guitar to get the best out of it. The guitar was originally an Epiphione Olympic; very light, resonant, one piece mahogany body; super thin, newly fretted, mahogany neck. It now has an Epi vibrato, two Gibson mini humbuckers at the middle and bridge positions, and a Chandler Firebird mini humbucker at the neck position. Switching is 5 way, like on a Strat with all pickups in phase. Controls are master volume and tone.
Wish you had a '52 Esquire but can't afford it? This guitar is made from an unrestorable, early fifties, Champion/Student lap steel. These lap steels had basically the same parts as an Esquire but in a different format, same swamp ash used for the bodies, same pickups (sans base plate), same pots and caps. I attached a 9.5 radius, medium C, 25.5 inch scale, rock maple neck. The guitar uses all the original parts except for new pots, tuners, knobs, and brass slant compensated bridge saddles.
Flaxwood has developed a line of guitars made from a wood based, man-made composite tonewood, which has all the uniformity and stability of graphite, yet maintains and projects the warm, resonant, clear and open vintage tone of high quality wood.
The Gianina was born out of a commission and a desire to create a guitar that combines the drive and thump of an archtop, the warmth and depth of a nylon, and the breathy throaty sustain of a Selmer-Maccaferri. The result is amazing! With a unique bracing and graduation technique that Ryan Thorell developed, the tone is an exciting extraction of the above guitars.
New to the DAG collective, please welcome luthier Howard Klepper! Although Howard is famous for his flattop steel string guitars, we are launching with a solid body single cut design that is packed with tone...
This Superior was built and set up for slide with a very large neck, and wide (2") nut. It is a very resonant guitar with a very simple construction of maple/alder/ and ebony.
Ruokangas VSOP: featuring the True Temperment Tuning System
Ruokangas Guitars and DestroyAllGuitars have teemed up to introduce a line of guitars featuring the new True Temperament Tuning System. We are initially offering two stunning V.S.O.P. models outfitted with the True Temperament Curved Fret Option. This is a new, revolutionary approach to the design of the guitar fretboard. True Temperament Curved Frets are tuned piano style - one note at a time.
You'd be hard pressed to find finer craftsmanship and woods than those combined to make this incredible fully chambered Spruce-Top. Sitka Spruce / Quartersawn Ribbon Sapele body, Honduras Mahogany neck,Ebony fingerboard, Kent Armstrong Hand Wound pickups and Honeyburst Finish.
Folks, each year Matt Artinger raises the bar for himself with one instrument whose purpose is to serve as a document for his current level of achievement in the electric Hollowbody genre. This series of guitars has become known as the "Blondie" series as they are all built with stunning Blonde European Spruce tops.
Final 10 Ribbecke Testadura Thinlines [6/27/08 - ONLY 4 SLOTS LEFT!]
Tom Ribbecke is stepping to his bench to build the final 10 Testaduras of his career. The Testadura is considered by many to be the finest 335 style guitar made. With it's unique removable center block, master grade Sitka Spruce top, Big Leaf maple back, Brazilian Rosewood sides and Tom's masterful hands putting it all together, the end result could be nothing short of spectacular.
Features: Chambered Swamp Ash back - Swamp Ash top - 1-piece maple neck - Maple fingerboard - Aged Mary Kaye White poly finish on body - Vintage tint satin nitro finish on neck - Chrome hardware - Hipshot trem - DiMarzio noise-free pickups (Area 61-Neck/Area 58-middle/Heavy Blues 2-Bridge) - 5-way pickup selector switch - Mini-toggle on/off for bridge pickup - Hipshot open back locking tuners - Hipshot open back locking tuners - Sycamore truss rod cover with inlaid pearl logo
Chambered Korina body - Figured maple top - Radius body shape - Maple neck - Pau Ferro fingerboard - Sea Snail position markers - Rosewood peghead veneer - Two-tone burst poly finish on body - Vintage tint satin nitro finish on neck - Chrome hardware...
DestroyAllGuitars is thrilled to have been appointed the direct sales agent for Henman-Bevilacqua, whose S1 & S2 guitars are some of the finest, most dynamic rock guitars ever to pass through our hands.
DestroyAllGuitars welcomes Mike Sabre, French master luthier, to the family. Mike is widely known for designing and building John McLaughlin's Shakti guitar for which we are honored to be the exclusive agent.
You want smooth, we got it...(featuring the HRM Post Overdrive Tone Stack). The Classic Type 2 offers a unique approach to the "two amps in one box" concept. Seasoned Two-Rock veterans will be fondly remembering the Opal and Emerald Pro, as the Type 2 offers internal EQ dedicated to the lead channel only.
"The new Benjamin Fargen Exclusives line returns the craftsmanship to my hands personally and I am now building each piece in my personal studio as a one of a kind work of art." - Benjamin Fargen
The Wysteria is uncompromising elegance. Aesthetically, this guitar pays homage to the great lineage of the archtop jazz guitar. From its hand-crafted Loyd Loar era inspired sunburst finish, to it’s contemporary bocote and ebony natural wood appointments, this is an unapologetic and pinnacle guitar.
7/4/08 - THIS ONE IS SOLD, BUT ANOTHER ONE IS ALREADY IN PRODUCTION!
Folks, here it is, the Shelley Park, DestroyAllGuitars Model Encore. We are incredibly proud of, yet humbled by this truly magnificent instrument designed and built for DAG by Shelley Park. This is quite an honor for us and without further ado, here it is:
DestroyAllGuitars takes great pride in offering to you these spectacular hand made guitars from Fibenare Guitars of Budapest, Hungary. Their craftsmanship and attention to detail is remarkable putting them right at the top with the absolute finest solid and semi-hollow body builders alive today.This spectacular looking model is their "Basic Jazz Semi-Hollow" and has a beautiful one-piece, cocoa tinted, mahogany body.
Destroy All Guitars is proud to present another acoustically refined and visually stunning guitar in the form of the 2008 Vienna Sunset from Theo Scharpach. The guitar has a powerful and well-balanced acoustic sound and is very easy to play. It produces just enough bass and strong fat punchy trebles, still with rich harmonics.
"THIN IS IN!" The Thinline is an offshoot of the HJG-1 "Halfling Jazz Guitar" which is the result of over 25 years of Tom Ribbecke's unique understanding of carved top design. True crossover instruments, they combine the sensitivity of steel string guitars, with their flatter soundboard on the bass side, and the articulate sound of true jazz guitars.
Folks, it's with great excitement that we introduce the Pin-Bridge version of the Ribbecke Guitar Corp's "Halfling". This is no ordinary guitar but rather one that takes the incredible Halfling sound and technology and shifts it's focus one step further to the Flat-Top side of the tracks. We are expecting the first, limited run of 5, to be ready for a late June / early July delivery.
Built by the highly skilled master luthiers of Kiso, using only the finest woods and world class build techniques, the Kiso-Ribbecke is possibly the greatest value ever in an archtop guitar. There is absolutely no compromise or cutting back on anything but the price. We finally have a world class archtop within reach of the performers, students and players who so deserve to have one.
This is a restored Gibson L-50. Artinger Guitars, a member of the DAG collective did an impeccable job of restoring this instrument. Here's the blow-by-blow description in Artinger's words: --->
DestroyAllGuitars is thrilled to offer you an incredible new treasure from the folks at Two-Rock. We've had the first "Classic Type 3" amp, at use, in our studio for weeks now, and give it the absolute highest praise and ratings possible. The Type 3 has quickly become our #1 lead amp and we are now able to offer this model for sale.
"Schaefer 15 in Mint condition...only a year old...played very little....25" scale....Waverly tuners (gold) with ebony buttons....K Armstrong 12-pole PU.....Black Cedar Creek Custom case........lists for $7000....On sale for $5800....one of the finest I have ever built!!!" - Ed Schaefer...
Swingmaster Thinline: (2 1/2" depth on it's sides) Western Big leaf maple sides and back...sitka top.....gold Grovers....17 3/8" lower bout.....Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith PU....25" scale....tweed Cedar Creek Case....Lists for $9300....on sale for $6000
Straub Amplifiers is currently offering a limited edition Cantus amplifier housed in rare and beautiful hand made Mesquite cabinets. The harsh desert lands where mesquite grows shapes the character of this magnificent wood with patterns and designs not found in any other hardwood...
Brian at TopHat has designed yet another benchmark amp. The Vanderbilt 33 is a bigger, thicker, chewier version of what the Supreme 16 is. Not better but different. This is the dream amp for those who love the rhythm sounds of Richards and Townshend and all in between.
Picture a guitar that could replace a gypsy jazz box, a D28 Flat-top AND an L5, an instrument where your hands and pick attack, as well as your string selection, be it flatwounds, roundwounds, electric or bronze and combinations thereof.
DAG is now taking orders for Jonathan Mann's solid body Mandolins!
In Cliff's words: "DestroyAllGuitars is quite proud to offer you the electric mandolin designs of Jonathan Mann. We are particularly excited about his neck-through solid body which offers the richest tone and greatest sustain."
The new Universal Uppercut Archtop from Bruton String Works is here! DAG is now taking orders on a limited run of these extraordinary instruments. The example pictured here is from Cliff Cultreri's personal collection, but actual instruments for sale will be similar depending on options.
New Arrivals
