Month: October 2021

This dazzling parlor guitar is truly a unique beauty, with custom cannabis peghead & fingerboard inlay as well as abalone purfling. 

• Honduras rosewood sides & back
• Master-grade Sitka spruce (Ketchikan, Alaska) top 
• Indian ebony binding, fingerboard, bridge, and peghead overlay 
• Abalone body purling
• Waverly tuners   
• Hand-cut abalone cannabis peghead & fingerboard inlay, Dart logo, and soundhole inlay 
• One-of-a-kind epoxy resin pickguard, made in-house
• Mother-of-pearl side dots 
• Bone nut & saddle 
• Nitrocellulose lacquer finish
• K&K Mini pickup
• 24-3/4” string length  
• 1-3/4” nut width 

A customer approached us with a few specific features in mind for this gorgeous OM: a slightly wider nut width (1-7/8″); short scale; a cutaway; an armrest; and a particular neck profile. Normally we’d use a 25″ scale on this size guitar, but the 24-3/4″ scale feels great & allows for a bit more pliability in the strings.

• Honduras rosewood sides & back
• Master-grade Sitka spruce (Ketchikan, Alaska) top 
• Indian ebony fingerboard, bridge, and peghead overlay 
• Venetian cutaway
• Waverly tuners   
• Boxwood binding & heelcap 
• Hand-cut abalone rose peghead inlay, Dart logo, fingerboard diamonds, and soundhole inlay 
• Mother-of-pearl side dots 
• Bone nut & saddle 
• Nitrocellulose lacquer finish
• 24-3/4” string length  
• 1-7/8” nut width 

This is an octave mandolin, built with a mandola-sized A-style body, F-holes, with a peghead vine & diamond fingerboard markers. Highly figured English sycamore sides / back / neck. Hand-carved top & back. Custom order / NFS.

• Curly English sycamore sides, back, & neck 
• Master-grade Sitka spruce (Ketchikan, Alaska) top 
• Indian ebony fingerboard & suspended Dart finger-rest 
• Ebony bridge Bronze Dart tailpiece 
• Rubner tuners   
• Ivoroid body binding 
• Hand-cut abalone & mother-of-pearl vine peghead inlay  
• Hand-cut abalone Dart logo 
• Hand-cut abalone fingerboard diamonds 
• Mother-of-pearl side dots 
• Bone nut & saddle 
• Sunburst / nitrocellulose lacquer finish   
• 21” string length  
• 1-3/8” nut width 

Standard maple & spruce A-style mandolin body with F-holes and custom peghead / fingerboard inlay. Hand-carved top & back. 

• Curly Eastern sugar maple (Massachusetts) sides, back, & neck
• Master-grade Sitka spruce (Ketchikan, Alaska) top
• Indian ebony fingerboard & suspended Dart finger-rest
• Ebony bridge
• Bronze Dart tailpiece
• Rubner tuners  
• Ivoroid body/fingerboard/peghead binding
• Hand-cut abalone & mother-of-pearl hummingbird peghead inlay
• Hand-cut abalone Dart logo
• Hand-cut abalone & sterling silver vine fingerboard inlay
• Bone nut & saddle
• Black side dots
• Sunburst / nitrocellulose lacquer finish 
• 13-7/8” string length
• 1-1/8” nut width

A unique short-scale fretless acoustic bass, built from David’s 0-size guitar body. Built with about an extra inch of body depth to maximize air volume, this bass has an impressive amount of punch and sustain & effortlessly holds down the low end behind a small ensemble. Its 31” scale is three inches shorter than a standard bass guitar, allowing for easy, nimble reach over several frets. This parlor bass has the dynamic warmth of a fretless upright bass & is still comfortable to play, with inlaid flush-sanded boxwood frets & side dots all the way up the fingerboard. And in case you want to plug in to stand out in a larger/live ensemble, there’s a K&K Pure Bass pickup already installed. 

For sale – $6,000

• African mahogany sides & back
• Master-grade Sitka spruce top
• Fretless ebony fingerboard with inlaid boxwood frets
• Mother-of-pearl side dots
• Hand-cut abalone Dart logo
• Bone nut & saddle
• Rosewood binding, bridge, & peghead overlay
• Tape-wound La Bella “Deep Talkin’ Bass” strings
• K&K Pure Bass pickup
• Matte polyurethane finish
• 31” string length
• 1-3/4” nut width
• 4-3/4” max body depth