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Below are some
examples of Spalted Maple Guitars
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Spalted Maple Viking Raw With No Finish
Amazing Spalt on this Quicksilver
Tops like these are reserved for our best guitars
Tops like these don't grow on trees
Hey, wait a minute !!
Baker Guitar with Spalted Top
Gene Baker did these especially for Ed Roman
Several years later Ed Roman purchased Baker
USA
This Bass has an incredibly wild finish on it, This is done in
a combination of ways and requires a tremendous amount of skill and patience.
A job like this can take up to week to do.
Centurion By Ed Roman
Gibson Les Paul Retopped In Ed Roman's
Custom Shop
Not the best picture of this
It came out looking a lot better
Quicksilver with
oiled top & piezo system
Dean Z, after playing this you won't want a Gibson !!!
The tone & resonance are awesome.
That big tuning fork headstock resonates like a banshee.
Quicksilver
Rich Warm Deep Spalt
Quicksilver
This is Ed Roman's personal main
player guitar
It is called "The Elephant Man" because the wood is misshaped and worn
through in spots
Originally Ed thought it was too ugly to sell so he figured he would use it.
Everyone loves this guitar so much that Ed is offering relics where the wood is
worn down like this.
$5,000.00 for a guitar like this one
Ed says "If these other Jibroneys, chare $10,000,00 to $30,000.00
for just chips & scratches."
" We can do it better, more realistic and of course as always, cheaper
!!!!!!"
Quicksilver
JET Guitar
This picture is a little washed out.
But JET guitars offers some of the finest Spalt we have
ever seen.
"Quicksilver Guitars
are Awesome Guitars"
"Quicksilver Guitars
are Awesome Guitars"
"Quicksilver Guitars
are Awesome Guitars"
"Quicksilver Guitars
are Awesome Guitars"
This guitar is lighter than a Les Paul
This guitar plays circles around a Les Paul, The action is set lower.
Due to the Tone Pros bridge & the strings thru body it out-sustains a Les Paul
This guitar Is less money than a Les Paul
This guitar is hand built completely in the USA unlike a Les Paul.
Tone is subjective!!!
This guitar has split coil pickups so it offers more
different tones than a Les Paul
Why would anyone want a Les Paul ?
Maybe they have been brainwashed since being a kid
Maybe they like heavy, cumbersome, outdated guitars.
Maybe they are rebelling against modern technology.
Maybe they are insecure, and want to join the groups of other lemmings.
Maybe they are trying to recapture their youth.
Maybe they like paying hand made prices for machine made guitars.
This little rant is not supposed to piss anyone off. (I'm sure it will)
This is written because...
I would like to see people think for themselves & stop being taken in by paid
for magazine ad's
Another Gibson Retop
Done in Our Custom Shop
Ed Roman has done 750 of these using many different woods
Why Do a Retop ?
To fix the guitar after
some idiot damaged it or put a tremolo on it.
To make it sound better.
To make it unique.
To piss off some vintage geek
To make your guitar look much better.
If you own a PRS with a tremolo or one of
their substandard, wraparound bridges. Or possibly a BC Rich,
that has one of those cheesy Badass bridges or Quadmatic
wraparound bridges. Or any guitar with a trem or crappy
bridge.
A retop will solve all your problems.
Sometimes it's cheaper just to out and buy a new guitar.
But then there's that old nostalgic sentimentality that you
have attached to Old Betsy. You can't put a price on that.
Maybe the guitar belonged to your dad and you want to honor
him by playing it. Very admirable but that old time technology
will limit your playing severely. Dad would not want that. |
Spalted Maple For Your Next Guitar
Call Ed Roman Now !!!!
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