Howie Escape Series #E.29.109.25 - Blue

Note: Be sure to check out the video for a more detailed description and to hear this guitar in action!

This 2025 Howie Escape Series comes with a custom fit Cedar Creek hardshell case.  It has a 22-fret fingerboard with a 24.75-inch scale length. The royal blackwood fretboard has a compound radius of 15.3 inches at the tail down to 9.5 inches at the nut.

The Shape of the neck is what we call the Howie Thin Line. At the nut the depth is 0.88 inches and at the 12th fret it is 0.94 inches. It’s not super thin like the 1960s Gibson ES 330s but it’s close. It has a very fast and easy feel. The width at the nut is 1.65 inches, and at the tail it is 2.15 inches making it a fairly thin span higher up on the fretboard.

The pickups on this guitar are Seymour Duncan’s Whole Lotta Humbucker set.  The recipe for these pickups came from Seymour’s work in London where he wound pups for some of the world’s best players in the days when The Yardbirds ruled the music scene.  This set was made for a very special player, and he has saved the formula ever since.The key is a rough cast Alnico 5 magnet and Seymour’s special winding pattern.  These pickups make everything bigger and warmer while also adding a slight compression effect to your amp.  Together they give you sounds and tone reminiscent of the early 70s British rock.       

Our U.S. patented nautilus chambered body design gives each Escape Series guitar it’s unique resonance and tone. This chambering makes this series our most difficult guitar to build however so I only build 2 or 3 of them each year making them very rare.The inlays on this Escape are very special.  Usually, our Escapes have a rose vine inlay on the board, but this Escape is a one-time only columbine inlay making it even more rare

The finish on this guitar was done with a catalyzed urethane that is normally used on automobiles. This high-end urethane dries very hard allowing fewer coats and a thinner finish.

As usual with all of our guitars, this guitar was built by me, the sole builder, from start to finish. It was also built mainly by hand with a little help from our small CNC machine for the beautiful columbine inlays and the double violin carve.

The rest of the nitty gritty details are all listed below…

• Series: Escape
• Serial Number #E.29.109.25
• Birthday: 10.2.25
• Main Body Wood: Poplar
• Top Body Wood: Curly Maple
• Back Body Wood: Curly Maple
• Neck Wood: Hard Maple
• Peghead Veneer: Royal Blackwood
• Fretboard: Royal Blackwood
• TR Cover: Walnut
• Weight: 6.7lbs, 3.04kg
• Carve Type: 0.5in Double Fibonacci
• Scale Length: 24.75, 62.87cm
• Nut Width: 1.65in, 4.19cm
• Tail Width: 2.15in, 5.46cm
• Neck Depth @ Nut: 0.88in, 22.35mm
• Neck Depth @ 12th: 0.94in, 23.88mm
• Fretboard Radius: Compound, 15.29in to 9.45in
• Fret wire: 0.09in, Stainless Steel
• Neck Angle: 3.8 deg
• Torsion Angle: 0deg
• Neck Carve: Howie Thin Line
• Peghead Angle: 8.5deg
• Pickups: Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker Set
• Tuning Machines: Gotoh Gold Vintage
• Nut: Bleached Bone
• Truss Rod: Hotrod Low Profile
• Bridge: Kluson ABR Wired
• Tail Piece: Gotoh Stop
• Strap Pins: Gold
• Strings: S.I.T Heavy Bottom
• Inlays: White Pearl, Abalone, Turquoise, Opal
• Pup Rings: Howie Custom White
• Side Dots: White Mother of Pearl
• Knobs: White Gibson Style
• Finish: DC 2000 Catalyzed Urethane