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Ed Roman Announces Completion of Ted Nugent Signature Guitar

Unique six string doubles as high-end firearm

November 09, 2006 - Las Vegas - Ed Roman's Quicksilver Guitars, the world's largest guitar store & builder of custom guitars, today announced that the company has completed the custom design, development, and construction of a new custom guitar for world famous rocker, hunter & statesman Ted Nugent.

Ted Nugent, known for his hard hitting rock n' roll, as well as his strong support for the right to bear arms, his conservative lifestyle and love of his country is one of Ed Roman's primary influences.

“We are proud to have had the opportunity to work with Ted again and to produce this truly unique instrument and piece of rock n roll history,” said Ed Roman, found of Ed Roman Guitars. “Not only is this a top-of-the-line guitar, it is a precision firearm. As usual, Ted will kill audiences with his hot finger work, but now he can employ his expert marksmanship with a six string, as well.”

Ed Roman & the Luthier's at Ed Roman's guitar shop were all excited to build this guitar for Ted. They put their minds together and came up with the idea to build a magnetic quick deployment high caliber Derringer handgun into the guitar itself.

“I am so jazzed to be associated with Ed and the team at ERG,” said Nugent. “This guitar is a work of art and is absolutely magnificent. And what a concept – Ed and his team have outdone themselves once again.”

In addition, this guitar differs from most other solid electric guitars because it has a 3/4" solid slab of Alaskan Sitka Spruce for its top wood. Ted was adamant about the guitar being built using a Spruce top because he favors the tone of Spruce. He says “the tone starts with the wood.” And, as usual, Ted is right!!! Most high quality acoustic & arch-top jazz guitar tops are made from either Engel Mann or Sitka Spruce.

Ted's other design specifics included a solid black Korina back with a gorgeously figured Macassar Ebony neck. The fingerboard is made from premium Gaboon ebony found only in the deepest, darkest regions of Central Africa. The softer Korina & Spruce resonate beautifully together and the Macassar & Gaboon Ebony neck adds a sharp percussive edge to the tone.

The public will be able to view this masterpiece at the NAMM show in Anaheim on January 18 - 21, 2007. The axe will also be on display at the Cobra Derringer booth at the 2007 SHOT Show, January 11-14 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida..

About Ed Roman Guitars - Ed Roman Guitars designs, builds and constructs the world's most beautiful and best sounding guitars on the planet. The company is located in Las Vegas, NV and is the World's largest guitar store - listing over 5,000 guitars in stock at any given time. ERG carries every major brand, as well as many you've likely never heard of. Ed Roman Guitars is also the best source for the finest Hand-Built Boutique Guitars in the universe. For more information, please visit www.edromanguitars.com

Las Vegas Nevada
August 01, 2006

Ed Roman Builds New Custom Gun Guitar For Radical Conservative Ted Nugent

Ed Roman Guitars is one of the only places in the world that caters to guitarists who favor wild & radical guitars. Currently the worlds largest custom high end guitar store. You can find almost anything rare & custom under Ed Roman's roof.

Ted Nugent is no stranger to anything radical, In fact one would have to say that Ted is Radical in his Conservatism. Clean & Sober since the day he was born, Ted is anomaly in the wild world of musicians & drugs. He is a conscientious American patriot who actually cares what happens to our country, our environment our children and our children's children.

If Ted Nugent were the President of the United States there would be some changes made.

Today, Ed Roman Guitars is producing one of their Quicksilver models as the Ted Nugent Cobra Guitar. The Guitar is made from beautiful tone woods and sports a 32 Caliber Cobra Derringer compartment built right into the guitar itself. Using an innovative magnetic quick deployment plate on the back allows the user to extricate the gun from the guitar instantly.

These guitars can and will be made available with other ordnance built in. Ted jokingly suggested a Desert Eagle!!! For a Desert Eagle to fit you would have to build the guitar to the scale of the Jolly Green Giant. Ho Ho Ho.

Also on the drawing board is a carbon fiber 22 magnum rifle barrel built directly into the neck, The action and trigger assembly would be built into the body of the guitar.

Contact Ed Roman Guitars 702-875-4552

Las Vegas Nevada

John Katsilometes is No. 1 with a bullet with news of Ted Nugent's distinctive new guitar, designed by Ed Roman

When Ted Nugent orders a straight shot, he ain't talkin' alcohol. The renowned veteran rocker (and hunter, and longtime Second Amendment rights activist) recently sought an instrument weapon that best suited his divergent passions.

So he asked Las Vegas guitar manufacturer Ed Roman to build a one-of-a-kind six-string electric that seems fairly pedestrian at first glance, but is in fact also home to a high-caliber derringer (exclamation point!).

"I've built a lot of guitars - for Brian May, Buck Dharma, just recently - and they are all novelties in some way," Roman said Monday during a phone interview. "But the thing with Ted, with the gun, was completely different."

In a statement, Nugent said, "I am so jazzed to be associated with Ed and the team at ERG (Ed Roman Guitars). This guitar is a work of art and is absolutely magnificent. And what a concept - Ed and his team have outdone themselves once again."

The guitar has a slot cut into the back of the body to house the handgun. Simple. But Roman, whose business, at 4631 S. Dean Martin Drive, is the largest guitar store in the world (with more than 5,000 guitars in stock at any given time), followed all of Nugent's other design specifics.

This might be a bit technical for us air guitar virtuosos, but Nugent's requests included a 3/4-inch solid slab of Alaskan Sitka spruce for its top wood, and a solid black Korina back with a Macassar ebony neck. The fingerboard is Gaboon ebony found only in the most remote regions of central Africa. The guitar is worth about $7,000, not particularly expensive for a custom-made guitar of its type, Roman said.

But that's not counting the gun, which is usually on Nugent's person at all times - even during a visit to the White House, as Roman noted.

"He's a big supporter of the President and had the gun on him in the Oval Office once when he met him," said Roman, who also has plans for a new guitar for Rio headliner Prince. Roman is not quite ready to provide details on that instrument, saying, "I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you."

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