A few selected descriptions of a cross section of Pheo creations (described in Phil Sylvester's words):

Pheo Tomcat ($3250) NEW!:

The Tomcat is made from a three ply WFL Ludwig drum shell with a flat spruce top, x braced and slightly graduated. The back is a tunable drum head. There is a sound port on the side of the shell, pointed toward the player. The neck is 25 1/5 " scale, mahogany, rosewood fingerboard, medium C profile. Lower bout is 17". Upper bout extensions are from a vintage Mickey Mouse guitar. Sound is bright, articulate, and complex, archtop midrange with flattop overtones.

The Pheo Bamboo is a hollow body electric resonator guitar. The neck is actually built from a piece of bamboo. It is just a tad over 2 inches wide at the nut and quite deep on occasion. This neck is for players comfortable with baseball bats, plenty of room for finger picking. The fretboard is maple, 25 inch scale, 12 inch radius. The solid part of the body is an odd, very resonant piece of oak, while the hollow part of the body is sapele and honduras mahogany. The resonator is a McCann's Irish oatmeal can (when only the best will do). Pickup is a Pheo custom alnico single coil. The neck structure is hinged, allowing neck angle adjustment for very low, albeit wide, action. The body is 2 1/2 inches deep, 13 inches wide at the lower bout. The headstock is a proprietary design that doubles as a weapon.

Prepaul ($3750):

The Prepaul has traditional construction and materials with a few major twists. Basically it is a Honduras mahogany body and neck with a rock maple top, 7 lbs 15 oz. However, the maple cap and the rest of the body are decoupled, i.e. separated by a quarter of an inch. The neck is 25 1/2 inch scale, fairly hefty c profile , with a 1 5/8 inch nut. The decoupling and the longer scale length give the guitar a slightly brighter voice, a bit more detail. The detail is enhanced by the pickups, actual 1956 Gibson pre PAFs, a design I prefer over actual PAFs, because of the clarity the polepiece magnets have over the later bar magnets. The neck is at least forty years old and is connected by a complex long tenon joint. The top wood is from a 1956 Gibson Pedal Steel. Tuners are locking Sperzel.

Capri ($2650):

The Capri is a weird little guitar. Based on a semi hollow Alamo Capri body from way back, the Capri weighs only 4 lbs 12 oz. The neck is a thin flat c profile, 19/16ths nut, 25, 1/4 inch scale, made of walnut with a slab maple cap, locking Sperzel tuners. The neck pickup is a Chandler lipstick. The bridge pickup is a stealth Tele bridge pickup. There is an actual hand wound T bridge pickup with base, hidden under that humbucker cover. This guitar has one of a kind character both visually and sonically. Only the Brave.

BB ($2750):

The BB is a Pheo Hotrod, that is a preexisting guitar that has been Pheoized to within an inch of its life. This guitar was once a Ventura, obviously, but has been massively upgraded and revoiced. First, the top is all new, solid spruce, flat, not arched, x braced with a custom flanged bracing system. The neck pickup is a 1956 Gibson pre PAF, a superb pickup if you are not familiar with it, has the body of a PAF, but better clarity in the wound strings. The bridge pickup is a 40's Gibson lap steel pickup, rewound with the actual original wire. The 5 ply 24 3/4 scale neck is very small, 1 9/16ths nut, shallow c profile, very fast and easy to play. Body is maple ply, 3" thick. This guitar is both a superb jazz box and a honkin' rockabilly barker with a vintage feel and sound and the scars to prove it.

Tonabar ($4250):

The Pheo Tonabar is a new kind of solid body. The bridge is anchored in two floating lengths of walnut, connected to the rest of the body only at the neck and tail. This construction makes the guitar exceptionally loud acoustically, while not dissipating sustain through membrane vibration. The neck is a hefty, c profile, 25 1/2 inch scale neck, formerly from a Fender Newporter, maple with a veneer rosewood cap, newly fretted, grrreat vintage feel. The body is honduras mahogany and walnut. The guitar weighs 7 lbs 8oz. The neck pickup is a Pheo custom, based on Gibson's pre PAF pedal steel pickups. The bridge pickup is a vintage Baldwin single coil that slides forward and backward. The forward position is great for lead playing, the back position makes for wonderful shimmering rhythm sounds when both pickups are on simultaneously.

Baby Head ($4800):

The Baby Head body is made with swamp ash and a small piece of basswood. The neck is maple with a rosewood cap, 25 1/2 inch scale, 10 inch radius, thin C profile. Pickups are a Chandler lipstick and a vintage Schaller single coil for the bridge. The Schaller is a very vocal, honky pickup with good output. Controls are a push/push switch for choosing the primary pickup, master volume, master tone, and a blend control for adding the secondary pickup. Design is fully ergonomic despite how it looks. The absolute tone secret is the addition of a rubber baby head and baby arm with hand. This exact amount of rubber, added to the body mass, sucks out all bad frequencies, leaving only dulcet harmonics.

The Dale has a hollow mahogany body with a thin Sitka spruce top. The top and back are coupled with a delicate box beam construction that keeps the guitar sufficiently rigid while being incredibly light (5lbs 2 oz).  The strings pull through a small area of solid wood beneath the tail end of the bridge plate. These structural details give the guitar an interesting singing sustain despite being hollow. The neck is 25 1/2 inch scale, 16 inch radius, maple with rosewood cap and a fairly sizable C profile, not a boat neck by any means but a little heftier than a medium C. The pickups are a Florance Tele style at the bridge and a Pheo custom at the neck, using old Dimarzio PAF coils and the magnet structure from Gibson's original pedal steel humbuckers from the fifties. The design gives more clarity in the neck position than a typical humbucker. Controls are a push/push switch for choosing the primary pickup, master volume, master tone, and a blend control for adding the secondary pickup.

The Clifford is a Pheo hot rod, that is, not an original design, but a vintage guitar that has been heavily Pheoized. This guitar was once a Gibson SG Melody Maker with a light, one piece mahogany body. A maple neck with a maple cap was added, but the neck is Fender scale, 25 1/2 inch, rather than the typical Gibson scale, with a12 inch radius. The maple and longer scale give this guitar a decidedly brighter and more complex voice than a typical SG. The pickups, too, are very atypical for an SG. All are by TV Jones. The neck and bridge are Magna'Trons, an original TV twangy humbucker design, and the middle pickup is a TV-HT, TV's version of the Hilo'Tron. Controls are master volume, master tone, and a three way switch to select each of the pickups.

Facet ($3500):

With the exception of the neck, the Facet is made only with planes, no curves. The body is designed, despite the flat surfaces, to ergonomically fit the player's body. Construction is hollow, with an internal truss system to provide the necessary rigidity with the least material. The result is an incredibly light, acoustically alive body. The whole guitar weighs 5 lbs 3 oz. Top wood is Spanish Cedar. Back and sides are Indian Rosewood. The neck is maple, 25 1/2 inch scale, medium c profile, with a 7.25 inch radius. Pickups are a vintage Gibson single coil in the neck position and an overwound Fralin P90 with polepiece magnets at the bridge. Controls are master volume, master tone, and a five way switching syste that gives neck, bridge, both, and two quack settings using unequal amounts of neck and bridge.

Lapocaster ($3500):

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. The body can be used in the small format or with the swamp ash ring that makes it more the size of a regular guitar. You also get the Pheo pledge, "no part of this guitar has been sanded or finished unless absolutely necessary to the guitar's performance". No other custom guitar maker makes a comparable pledge.

Epifaux - ($2200):

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.

Funicello ($2950):