Reviews of Boggs' home-builds are in + bonus shocker!

Boggs

Unanimous and most enthusiastic thumbs up by all at 5 guitar shops! One of the evaluators is a luthier and he put a value of the padauk one at a $2000 selling price... All agreed that the range of tones available were amazing and that my electronics layout was first rate and NOBODY is doing it that way and it is very intuitive and effective... All loved the look and the playing comfort and positioning the body shape creates. All were taken back by its tone and loved the wood choices... One actually liked playing the prototype better because it weighs nothing and still sounds great even though it is more of a jazz box tone and uses cheap woods. I have to go back to Stutzman's when Dave (the owner) gets back as both of the player/sales guys would love the opportunity to sell them... and they were the luthier/highest dollar value evaluators of the bunch. 2 customers asked me for a card or how to get ahold of me... They seemed to gravitate to these guitars!
One of the other shops' employees builds amps and he was setting up the bias and such on one of them for a musician (Funky level of player) that was going to be using it that night for a gig and they both decided to use my padauk guitar as the guitar of choice (over everything in the store) as the reference to set up the amp!!!

I kind of know what I would have to build them for price-wise and I will have to look much more seriously into either making jigs for this design and/or getting them manufactured (are you listening, Carvin?!). They were a HUGE hit at the various shops!!!! All features I incorporated into them were immediately acknowledged and appreciated... They weren't sure why they felt so comfortable until I pointed out the offset waistline which positions the guitar so well and then the lightbulb came on...!! Anyway, I'm really babbling...

HOLY CRAP... My wife is back from the Renaissance Faire with one of the music performers' prized guitar with the hole warn through the top that he wants the top replaced on... He loves the work Tim and I did on my homebuild that he wants US to do the work!!!!! My wife told him that we (Tim and I) have never tried doing anything like that before but that we would do our very best and would do it much cheaper than anyone else would ever do it as it would probably be too expensive to do otherwise... He said he had faith in us and just handed her the guitar to bring back!!!!!!! Excuse me... I must go $hit myself now... More to follow! Boggs

SAguitar · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject:

Two thumbs up, buddy! Cool

Herb · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:29 am Post subject:

A budding luthier in the making! Very Happy

Best of luck with all the projects, Boggs!