Chapin Hawk

Hawk- $2599 + options

Originally built for Billy Johnson of John Lee Hooker’s Coast to Coast Blues Band, the original Hawk model was designed as a hybrid of the early fifties Fender Telecaster and a early sixties Gibson SG. However, this model has since been expanded into many different directions.

Standard specs:
Mahogany, swamp ash, or alder solid flat top body, bolt on maple or mahogany neck with 12” radius rosewood fingerboard inlayed with dots/shades, 2 pickup configuration with a 3 way switch. As with all Chapin guitars, pickups are chosen to best bring out the individual tone of each instrument, several of the makers we choose from include: Lollar, Harmonic Design, SK, TV Jones, WCR, or our own Black Dog pickups. 25.5” or 24.6" scale.

A few Popular options:

Hawk hybrid/hollow (unique coupling brace top design) Add $400

Carve top- Add $600 (includes top binding)

Blackwood board-Add $300

Snakewood board- Add $500 (subject to availability)

Brazilian Rosewood Board- $200 (certain specific requirements in regards to the specs for Brazilian may raise price)

Gold Hardware- Add $150

Shades/triangle inlay $100

Korina Neck-Add $100

Korina Body- Add $100

2 3/8” thick body (set neck only) Add $200
one-piece swamp ash body- inquire

Piezo Bridge saddles/without internal preamp add $250

Preamp-Inquire

Top upgrades, figured necks, other body woods, and other options including unusual requests are available at additional cost and time. Some past options have included fretless, Partial fretless (fretless strings on an otherwise fretted neck and fretless above a given fret.) Tenor guitars, sympathetic strings, 24”scale, Baritone, Quarter tone frets, unusual wirings, No truss rod, headless, Skyway trem….you get the idea, a lot can be done.