Pheo 4-8-4

The 4-8-4 is based on Ted McCarty's forgotten pickup. The pickup was invented to capture both humbucking sounds and single coil sounds in a single pickup and was used only on Gibson steel guitars. It is a great sounding pickup! The Pheo 4-8-4 uses parts from an unrestorable fifties Gibson steel guitar, the original pickup, caps, pots, and switching, untouched for the bridge position, and half of a second 4-8-4 for the neck pickup. To keep the clarity these pickups were designed for, Pheo used part of the steel spine from the pedal steel as the base structure for the guitar. The body wings are alder. The neck is maple with an ebony fretboard, 25 1/2"scale, C profile, 12"radius. The 4-8-4 weighs 8lbs 14oz and has an oil finish.

About Pheo Guitars
If you're new to Pheo Guitars, read on. These fractured, yet crafted, random yet profoundly organized instruments are the creations of Phil Sylvester of Pheo Guitars. They are the very epitome of functional art – they play, beautifully, even startlingly well. They are consummate instruments that press hard at the boundaries of what we normally think an instrument “should” be. From Pheo you will find remarkable guitars and amplifiers made from found objects and crafted elements – old instrument parts, hairdryers, grills, vacuum cleaners, etc. all deconstructed and reassembled into a whole that only vaguely resembles, and certainly transcends it’s origins.