DestroyAllGuitars Welcomes S.Talkovich Guitars

The Talkovich goal is to build simple, straight forward electric guitars that work great on the stage and on the couch, guitars that inspire folks to play their best, guitars that we all love to pick up and play. Talkovich is a fan of the CNC machine. It allows small custom builders to blend technology i.e., accuracy and consistency with hand-built elements at affordable prices for regular folks who love fine guitars.

Assembled by hand is the definition of hand built. That's what Talkovich does. Just like a $5k to id="mce_marker"0k mastercraftsman custom shop guitar, one person assembles S.Talkovich electric guitars, one at a time.

Talkovich seasons the wood in his shop for at least six months before starting the finishing process. He final shapes the necks and final sands the bodies and rolls the fingerboard edges by hand. He finishes the backs with satin lacquer for a silky feel with no drag. Glossy lacquer necks can be sticky. The Talkovich process of spraying the back and front, satin and gloss respectively takes more work but the results are definitely worth the effort and time.

The neck profile is a hand shaped soft "V" profile on a medium chunky neck (.89 at the 3rd fret), and 1 3/4th Wide Nut with wide string spacing. He uses medium jumbo frets with a modern 12 inch radius. These dimensions are the best blend of acoustic and electric guitar specs for excellent playability. The slight V makes chord changes smoother and easy. Perfect for fingerpickers and blues players.

ACOUSTIC APPEAL
With their wider nut and spacious string spacing the S.Talkovich guitars have a special appeal for the acoustic player who is most comfortable in first position, particularly those who play country and blues; the fingerpickers and roots players out there. That sort of inviting playability has always been one of the primary design goals at S.Talkovich Guitars and indeed many Talkovich owners are primarily acoustic players. The extra surprise though, is that this design ethic doesn't make the Talkovich instruments any less appealing to the rock or multi-style enthusiast. In fact, the acoustic-style playability translates into an instrument with startling versatility, an instrument that is as adventurous as it is familiar.

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S.TALKOVICH t90 ($1870):
The S.Talkovich t90 model can be a thinline, chambered or solid body. All t90s have P90 sized neck pickups. As always, a wide nut (1 3/4ths) and wide string spacing, 12 inch radius fingerboard and hand finished, slight "V" profile, medium chunky necks. Available with a custom wound Budz p90 neck pickup or a custom wound Budz Deep Dish and their custom wound Budz 4/2 (secret sauce) bridge pickup, the t90 offers a wide range of single coil sounds on a classic platform. The thinline is a favorite, like a true acoustic guitar it has unfinished/unsealed wood exposed to the air and that aids the t90's aging process. The thinline t90 weighs in around seven pounds,. a solid body t90 around seven to seven and a half pounds. With well chosen body and fingerboard tonewoods, and pickup and bridge and saddle choices, the t90 can cover a wide range of tonal directions. 

S.TALKOVICH t2 ($1750):
The t2 is a variation of a traditional two pickup solid body electric guitar. Wide nut width and wide string spacing, chunky neck, healthy single coil Budz pickups, Glendale bridge plate and saddles...it's designed to be a juke joint electric guitar--no wallflower here. Think Muddy and Memphis. The Budz 42 bridge pickup can be down right rude when you dig in. The Budz Tall Neck (first built by Talkovich's request with field work and testing by Talkovich himself) just sings when you go for single note leads. The taller magnets in the neck pickup give you exceptional clarity and string separation--it's the perfect traditional looking neck pickup. Fingerpicked chords are lush and clear on the Tall neck PU as well--it's an expressive pickup that wakes up when you dig in. "The Bloom"--what a note does after the initial attack, is another remarkable quality of the Tall Budz Neck and gives it that vocal quality. Three great sounds (at the flick of a pickup selector switch) that are infinitely variable. 

S.TALKOVICH t3 ($1870):
Sometimes you want five great sounds, that's the t3. Wide nut and wide string spacing, medium chunky neck, 12 inch radius fingerboard, single cut body.