CB Hill Guitars

[hannaugh]

Here's my tech guy.  If you look at his pics, you can see a ton of guitars that he has built.  I played one, it was pretty cool. 

http://www.myspace.com/cbhillguitars


Unfortunately, his regular website doesn't seem to be working.  But you can see all of his stuff on myspace. 

 

[T.L.]

Those are some of the ugliest guitars I have ever seen. To each his own though...

 

[hannaugh]

You probably just looked at the glittery Speedsters.  There is more there, like the awesome double f hole jazz guitars and the Teles he has built.  You have to look at both albums.

 

[T.L.]

Yeah, I saw only the "glitter" guitars...

 

[hannaugh]

There are several that don't have the flake finishes.  I'm not a fan of that finish either, but I like the body shapes and stuff.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Those Speedsters are like a hybrid of a Pacifica (Yamaha) and Ibanez Talman series with a very small hint of every Peavy/MM/Wolfgang/VW variation.  Kudos for originality.  There's only so many single cutaway guitar shapes, everything is bound to look like something to someone.

 

[hannaugh]

Having played a couple of the Speedsters, I can tell you that they are very comfy to play.  The necks are compound radius.  They're almost like a cello neck, so I think it's a little more exaggerated version than Warmoth's compound radius.  CB was telling me that the pickups are hand made by a friend of his, which I think is kind of cool.  It just makes the whole package a lot more unique.  If I had lots of money, I'd probably have him build me an archtop, though I like the non-sparkly Speedsters as well.  He's a nice guy, and it would be really fun to work with him on it.