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1500 G Neck Modification The 1500G neck modification TM, is Ed Roman's secret recipe for unfinished necks. Originally conceived by...
22 Fret Necks Versus 24 Fret Necks This is a debate that many people avoid, In fact many companies just look the other way. Normally a progressive company looking...
Acoustic Guitars This page talks about Acoustics from a beginners standpoint. There is a map of the USA  to help with choosing a safe location for an Acoustic to be built in.
Adamantium Truss Rods A bedtime story by Ed Roman.  You can only tell it your children after you buy an Ed Roman Guitar !!!  Maybe if you tell it to your wife, She will give you her permission to buy one.
All Access Neck Joint No other company offers this exclusive trademarked innovation on  this style guitar...

Babicz Guitars Technical

Lateral compression is created by anchoring the strings directly to the guitar soundboard. The stored energy is released acoustically as the...

Bent Tops

A bent top guitar is a guitar that has a totally artificial veneered archtop.  It is yet another way for the bigger...
Binding A Guitar
The first step after making the basic body is to route out an edge evenly around the entire body...
Black Saddle Piezo System The New "Black Saddle" TM Piezo System is the first and only one I have seen that I have been totally impressed with. There are many significant...
Buzz Feiten Tuning   Since we started installing Buzz Feiten's revolutionary guitar tuning system almost fifteen years have passed. We have done countless numbers of them and...
   
Color Perception 2000 Our eyes contain sensors which respond to different wavelengths of light. The human visual system works quickly to respond to all the potential...
Deep Set Neck Tenon 1997 A deep set neck tenon is an extremely stable way to build a guitar.   It also helps the tone and sustain...
Direct Coupling 1996 Direct Coupling will add tremendous sustain to your guitar, It will also give you up to 25% more audible overtones.  You can really hear the difference...
Ebony Fretboards Good tone is derived from combining different woods. We hang up fingerboards, & body woods and tap them for resonance and pitch. Most small hand builders will at least attempt...
Floyd Rose Tremolo

Say whatever you will about the Floyd Rose Tremolo. The fact is it is still the best straight ahead Rock n' Roll tremolo on the market. Ugly and cumbersome as it may be it's the only one that really stays in tune...

Floyd Rose Speedloader 2004 The Speed-Loader Tremolo offers all the versatility of the original Floyd Rose Tremolo™ with the ease and performance of the Speed-Loader System. You can still execute the most subtle...

Fretwork

Fretwork is an art, there are few people who have the fortitude, patience, level of concentration and a steady enough hand to do fretwork. Personally I consider...
Gibson Necks Breakage Problem  
Heel Removal Currently I do this job on the PRS CE Models at least 10 times a month and the custom models about twice a month.  There has never been a single problem with one of these jobs to date...
Intonating a PRS PRS hardtail guitars have no intelligent way to set up intonation, there are no adjustments excepting for the outside strings. It is hard to believe that a company of PRS's stature could possibly...
Intonating a Rickenbacker 12 String If you are a Rickenbacker 12 string owner and you are having a problem with keeping the guitar in perfect tune this little tech tip will be of great interest to you...
Neck Construction 2001 A bolt on neck has a large flange that protrudes from the body. The neck is usually bolted onto this cumbersome flange.  On a "Bolt In" the neck is actually bolted through the back of the body...
Neck Mounting Myths 2005 Many players assume that to build a good guitar it should have a glued on neck. I for one definitely do not believe that...
Neck Stability A stabilized neck means that you are getting wood to wood contact all around at the base of the neck. A neck that has wood to wood contact is certainly going to sound much better...
Parker Pickup Conversion The biggest problem with the Parker guitars has always been the sound of the magnetic pickups. Many people buy a Parker for it's rich deep piezo electric acoustic sound, and easy playability. However...
Pearlcaster Tremolo The new full floating Guitar Tremolo Bridge unites state of the art computer design and the highest quality materials with the new patent pending...
PRS Retopping No excerpt available.
PRS Tremolo Over the years Paul Reed Smith has used a number of different tremolo systems.  The original was made by a company known as Mil Com. The original tremolos are sought after because they are cast from one solid...
Poly Versus Nitro Finish Polyester Paint jobs are easy and inexpensive to make look very good. Most every company uses it from Ibanez to PRS. Polyester finishes are easily identifiable by the thick glossy...
Quarter Sawn Lumber Plain sawn (or flat-sawn) lumber has the growth rings of the tree parallel to the board's broad face. Plain sawn wood highlights the grain...
Seymour Duncan Antiquity Pickups Seymour Duncan uses the exact same materials as Gibson did in the 50's when they built their original pickups.
Set Neck Construction,
Why I'm not a fan.
Usually I am not a fan of set neck construction, Although I have found several (2) brands that are exceptions. Both these brands employ radiused tops. I wonder if that is a coincidence.
Spruce Tops On Electric, Acoustic, Jazz & Slimline Guitars. Experienced luthiers & guitar players all pretty much agree that a solid spruce top is usually the best kind of wood for Acoustic Flat Top Guitars & Archtop Jazz...
Stainless Steel Frets Nothing sounds as good as pure old fashioned Nickel Silver Frets!!!  Stainless frets make your guitar sound less than natural...
Steinberger Necks The original composite blend was a mixture of Fiberglass, Kevlar, Strandular Carbon Graphite Fiber & Epoxy. This blend works quite well it is designed for stiffness reliability and stability...
String Problems  
Tone/Pros Bridges TonePros Sound Labs International is a company comprised of professional luthiers and sound design specialists with years of experience in the music production...
Tremolo Stabilizer No excerpt available.
Transposing Tremolo To my knowledge my shop "Ed Roman Guitars" is the only place in the world where you can still buy a brand new original Steinberger Trans Trem...
Van Campen Rickenbacker Mod This guitar gets my vote as one of the best guitars on the market for the price. It has all the right components...
Vari-Phase System Explanation Another Consumer Ripoff
    

Set Neck Construction

Every now & then someone wants us to build a set neck model. (Like This One).  

1. Set Neck Guitars break the easiest because they are inherently less stable.

None of us here are fans of any guitar with a set neck. These are by far the least expensive to build. But they tend to break. (We have more set neck Les Paul necks break than all other guitars put together.)

2. I don't like the tonal transference factor.  The wood should be directly touching the wood. A set neck is always glued in, therefore you must deal with the glue gumming up the tonal transference.

On a neck through body like a Jackson, BC Rich or an Abstract you get total tonal transference benefits!

3. I don't like the fact that it's hard to reach the upper frets. The upper frets on a set neck are almost always impossible to reach. Most singlecut guitars suffer from that syndrome. The Les Paul is probably the worst offender because it has a gigantic heel and worse yet the short stubby Les Paul neck has a fingerboard that rests directly on the top of the guitar.  We sell lots of Les Paul's I just fail to understand why. (Could it be the Hype & Advertising  Mmmm......      I wonder)

By the way we normally don't offer this model as one of our standard designs.  Occasionally we are asked to Ghostbuild guitars for a certain company or customer, who may or may not,  have handbuild capabilities or their own custom shop.
 

These Ghostbuilt guitars are relatively rare, we have built approximately 50 guitars like this in our entire history. We generally charge about 10% more on one of these jobs because we don't derive any advertising benefits.

For example,  If you were at a concert somewhere and you saw someone playing this guitar, you would assume that it was made by Dean. Therefore if you wanted to emulate, honor or copy the guitar player as many weak minded people often do.

Below there are several pictures of the guitar after paint, These pictures are old and pixilated

I only decided to include them so the viewer can see what the wood looks like after staining.

Photos of the front & back after staining before clear coat is applied

Please take notice there is no stain or finish in the pickup cavities. 
We usually build all our guitars mounted pickups, 
there is not even a thin layer of stain between the pickup & the wood.
You may order custom cavities in the guitar at no extra charge.