Pheo Horseshoe

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.

Pheo Facet Redux

Phil Sylvester will often rework his instruments if he gets an idea about how to squeeze even better performance out of them. Such is the case with the Facet. It's new incarnation is the Facet Redux, refinished, new pickguard, but most importantly, new, old pickups. Now the Facet has a vintage Dearmond in the neck position, and a Japanese DynaSonic at the bridge. The Facet is an amazingly bright, detailed guitar, and the smokiness of these two pickups compliments the acoustic response perfectly. With the exception of the neck, the Facet is made only with planes, no curves...

Pheo Clifford

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 Pheo Sputnik

This amp is housed in a Hoover Constellation, the early sixties vacuum cleaner that floated on a cushion of air. The amp itself is a revoiced and restored Raymer, using an EL84, a 12AX7, and an EZ81 rectifier, maybe six watts. The top of the vacuum holds a vintage Jensen C10Q surrounded by balsa wood. The bottom holds the head, which rises when one pushes the secret button.

The Pheo UN

No, you didn't forget to put on your glasses - This a one of a kind creation from contemporary artist Phil Sylvester. Phil brought us the Fractured Stratocaster and since has dedicated himself, and his new company, PheoGuitars to the creation of some of the wildest yet most extraordinarily functional "art guitars" and "art amplifiers" being produced today.