SHELLEY
Watercolor of the workshop: benches, tool wall, drill press and a guitar body on the bench.

Shelley Guitar

Made by hand.In a Midwest garage.

Guitars and pickups from one bench.

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Thunderbird. Flame maple, ziricote fretboard, hand-wound Q180. Workshop photo, painted ground.

Instruments

Thunderbird.

Flame Maple. Ziricote fretboard. Hand-wound Q180.

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Empusa, workshop photo of a real guitar, painted ground.Lamia, workshop photo of a real guitar, painted ground.Cacus, workshop photo of a real guitar, painted ground.

Learner kits

Learner kits.From StewMac and eBay.

New fretboards on every one. Most get glued-in pickups. Where the technique was built.

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Watercolor of copper wire wound on a pickup bobbin.

Pickups

Wound by hand.Wrapped in string.

Built to your liking, or from one of the shop’s designs. Each pickup is unique and scatterwound.

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Seafoam learner-kit body and maple neck on the bench. Workshop photo, painted ground.

Learner kits

Back and forth.

Kits from StewMac and eBay, worked one process at a time. A fretboard on one. Wiring on another. Then back again — bouncing between builds until each skill stuck.

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Watercolor of shelves of records and books under a warm lamp.

ALKEMIKAL

The labelinside.

Records from the same company.

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