Custom Build Tele

I like Mighty Mite pickguards. I also make laminated wood pickguards

Beautiful work as always CS

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Tele in Olympic white nitrocellulose lacquer.

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That's a great color CS..

Thanks Tomas!

Tele with P90 AlNiCo 5

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Lightly reliced California Blue







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Tele with P90 AlNiCo 5

That P90 is georgeous I can imagine many people buying that configuration and color. Great work CS!

Lightly reliced California Blue

Real nice CS. Your work shows to be very consistent which is the best imo.

Real nice finish on that Strat and I love that rosewood board too.

That P90 is georgeous I can imagine many people buying that configuration and color. Great work CS!

Thanks Tomas - the P90 is my favorite neck pickup for tele style guitars. The AlNiCo 5 provides for a fat warm tone with some treble articulation.

Parker Hornet with mahogany body and carved maple top refinished in nitrocellulose lacquer. The bridge humbucker was rewound to vintage specs (original neck pickup sounds great). Pushpull pots have been replaced.

Back of body and neck is mahogany.

That P90 is georgeous I can imagine many people buying that configuration and color. Great work CS!

Thanks Tomas - the P90 is my favorite neck pickup for tele style guitars. The AlNiCo 5 provides for a fat warm tone with some treble articulation.

The P90's are my favorite pickups, great clean tones and great OD tones as well.

Back of body and neck is mahogany.

I had a Parker P42 with a maple neck bolt on mahogany body, ebony fretboard. It was a great guitar, I couldn't really bond with the supposedly AlNiCo 2 humbuckers on it so eventually I sold it. The necks on Parkers are pretty amazing. I would love that Hornet without the maple cap Too bad I didn't know you back then, I would have asked you to rewind the pickups in mine too. That Goldtop looks amazing CS!

Tomas - this Parker Hornet also has an ebony fretboard and the humbuckers are AlNiCo 5s. The neck pickup was excellent in the 7.9k range, but the bridge was overwound (13.4k) and too midrangy. I agree with you about the AlNiCo IIs, once you get used to single coils, they tend to be uneventful and lacking in the treble end.

Tomas - this Parker Hornet also has an ebony fretboard and the humbuckers are AlNiCo 5s. The neck pickup was excellent in the 7.9k range, but the bridge was overwound (13.4k) and too midrangy. I agree with you about the AlNiCo IIs, once you get used to single coils, they tend to be uneventful and lacking in the treble end.

Yes that's my favorite mahogany neck and ebony fretboard. I still like AlNiCo II magnets I think it was just those Parker pickups weren't really that good. Fat single coils sound the best to my ear like P90's jumbo MFD's etc. you are really doing a great job CS, you should work for G&L IMO.

Custom build relic SG style in a Pelham Blue nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Mahogany body hand beveled. Neck back was sourced and a rosewood fingerboard was glued in. Medium jumbo fretwire. 24.7 Inch scale. 16 inch radius. Pickups feature an AlNiCo V in neck with an Alnico II in the bridge. Headstock features an inlayed sterling silver cross over Zebrawood cap. Resonant and warm sound, this one really sings.

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Beautiful work as always CS! That looks very good to me anyway

Really cool SG! nice work!
how many guitars do you produce per year?

Really cool SG! nice work!
how many guitars do you produce per year?

It varies from year to year. My focus is mostly flamenco guitars, but the markets since 2008 have dropped out for boutique guitars and have been replaced by low cost imports.

Thanks Tomas and have good one.

Really cool SG! nice work!
how many guitars do you produce per year?

It varies from year to year. My focus is mostly flamenco guitars, but the markets since 2008 have dropped out for boutique guitars and have been replaced by low cost imports.

You make flamenco guitars? That's awesome! I was starting oot with a classical guitars and always admired flamenco and of course wanted a good guitar for that. What are your flamenco ones looking like?

Here is a short music sample featuring two one minute segments.

You make flamenco guitars? That's awesome! I was starting oot with a classical guitars and always admired flamenco and of course wanted a good guitar for that. What are your flamenco ones looking like?

When I get a chance I will post some pictures.

You make flamenco guitars? That's awesome! I was starting oot with a classical guitars and always admired flamenco and of course wanted a good guitar for that. What are your flamenco ones looking like?

When I get a chance I will post some pictures.

Thanks man looking forward and I'm gonna listen to those samples of that SG

Here are some pics of one of my blanca flamenco guitars without the tap plate and traditional pegs. Note the spine that runs the center of the Honduran mahogany neck right up underneath the rosewood fingerboard, providing strength and keeping the neck from bowing or warping. The top is a select piece of spruce with narrow straight grain. The back and sides are solid cypress with wood binding. Really low action and plays like an electric.

Music sample using the above flamenco guitar on lead with my G&L Tribute Legacy on rhythm track.

Wow CS. Now I tend to think that you are fooling us here Erez Perelman hiding under some CS guitars name . Great job the "Blanca" sounds and looks great. Now I think I want one

I don't build large quantities of guitars which is why CS Guitars is not a major brand name and, actually, I prefer it that way, so I can focus on what I enjoy building. Also, there is very little demand right now for high end classical and flamenco guitars, since most people don't have the budgets for them.

Translucent Olympic white guitar with Alnico 5 P90 neck pickup.

Olympic White Lightly Reliced

The music sample has a thick sound likely because it was recorded through an Amek Mozart module through a Art Pro VLA comp into adat. No effects were added.

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Lake Placid Blue lightly reliced with nitro finish. I use a simulated plastercast for my base coat lending a vintage look when the lacquer is worn. The neck pickup is from a vintage 1970 guitar. Low impedance, but sounds great.

CS that looks great man. I like the idea too. Usually you don't see many placid lake Tele's out there.

Hey Tomas, I like your strat avatar

Here is one I finished in Turquoise nitrocellulose lacquer, which is in between a Daphne blue and Lake Placid Blue.

Thanks man. I like it too. I never would have thought I'd be on "the bright side" and be so happy about it