Exceptional One-Of-A-Kind Spruce Hill Aluminum Body Electric Guitar

(See video below). This incredible instrument was a prototype electric aluminum guitar built for me back in 2009 by the Spruce Hill Guitar Company, the same crew that designed and crafted the original 50th Anniversary Harley Davidson aluminum bodies for Fender.

The body is all hollow, hand-hammered, aircraft-grade aluminum with maple bolt-on neck and rosewood fingerboard. This is not like the CNC-machined billet aluminum guitars that are starting to find a niche in the marketplace. This is crafted by hand.

Not long before he died, Lou Reed (who famously owned a played a custom Noah electric guitar) took this guitar for a test drive. He described being in awe of the pure power of the sound. The resonance is otherworldly. With a trapeze tailpiece and phenomenal WCR pickups (1 Godwood and 1 Darkburst), this guitar is unique in its ability to sustain. Unplugged, the guitar is acoustically resonant and loud, not unlike a National. Plugged in, it's a Les Paul meets an SG on steroids in a 6-dimensional world. She is not an easy beast to tame. You will hear the nuances of everything you play and, fed through an amp with drive or gain, hold on to your hat. She will take you new places.

Kevin Burkett of the Electrical Guitar Company worked on her not long after her birth, making a minor adjustment to her bridge placement to fine-tune intonation. Along with the locking Sperzel tuners, she holds tune and intonation like an all star.

The last photo shows the personalized engraving in he neck pocket.

She lives in and comes with a custom 2-guitar, padded gig bag.

Few guitars I have ever played either in-studio or on stage have invited the stares, sparked the conversation or drawn the attention of my audiences quite as much as this one. It is my hope that her next owner loves her as much as I have.