mrpinter
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Before I started my guitar company I was a Warmoth addict. I had 6 or 7 custom guitars built for me with Warmoth bodies and necks. They were great guitars, but I would sell them off, one at a time, to fund another build; and more recently I've had to sell all of them except one, that's a serious keeper - a brown burst S guitar, and a Velocity that my granddaughter has (and loves), to make room for a growing number of Pinter guitars. Storage space is a limited and precious commodity in our condo. I had pro techs build my Warmoth guitars to get them as perfect as possible (I'm just not a DIY person). At various times I had Tele, Tele Deluxe, Velocity, Soloist, 7/8 S guitar, and maybe one or two other Warmoth designed guitars. Unlike conventional wisdom, sometimes I got all my money back when I sold them.
In 2016 I started out in my company with a paper template of my first design, and help from a nice man who makes basses, with a small CNC machine in his garage shop. I had it painted and got a case that fit, and started having demo videos made and placing ads in online and print magazines. I truly feel I've been led by Providence every step of the way. Example: I met Joshua Spataro over the phone when he worked for Warmoth. He mentioned - to answer my questions about his interests or hobbies, that he had a side hustle winding pickups. So I began using Righteous Sound Pickups, and still do to this day - on all our guitars exclusively. A guitar tech who built one of my Warmoth creations took an interest in what I was doing, when I sold the idea to him, and he became my luthier.
We made a prototype for a second model - a wild idea of mine to build a solid body jazz guitar - with specially wound pickups designed by Joshua S., voiced for flatwound strings. The prototype turned out perfect, so we sent it to Premier Guitar for a review. Joe Gore did the review and gave us 19 stars out of 20. When the magazine chose the Jazz Jr - as we named it - for their "best of the best" for their year's wrap-up edition, they said it was "stunningly good as a jazz guitar".
We did a couple of NAMM shows, that did me no good for sales, but I met some nice people and made some connections; and that is where I met Warmoth's own Aaron (what a super guy). We now have four models, three of which I'll show you below, unfinished - except for one - because I have a feeling you guys like to see work in progress. I'm not showing our single pickup model - the SB1-S Super Sport, as it's a lot like the SB1-R model except for having one (very differently voiced) pickup instead of two.
Here is a Jazz Jr, ready to be assembled
An SB2 electric 12 string, also in the queue (it gets three Firebird style pickups and out-chimes Ric 12s - to my ears at least)
Lastly, an SB1-R Rock Star model - ready for assembly
And finished (currently with a reviewer for a guitar magazine). If you've made it this far, thank you for your attention and interest.
In 2016 I started out in my company with a paper template of my first design, and help from a nice man who makes basses, with a small CNC machine in his garage shop. I had it painted and got a case that fit, and started having demo videos made and placing ads in online and print magazines. I truly feel I've been led by Providence every step of the way. Example: I met Joshua Spataro over the phone when he worked for Warmoth. He mentioned - to answer my questions about his interests or hobbies, that he had a side hustle winding pickups. So I began using Righteous Sound Pickups, and still do to this day - on all our guitars exclusively. A guitar tech who built one of my Warmoth creations took an interest in what I was doing, when I sold the idea to him, and he became my luthier.
We made a prototype for a second model - a wild idea of mine to build a solid body jazz guitar - with specially wound pickups designed by Joshua S., voiced for flatwound strings. The prototype turned out perfect, so we sent it to Premier Guitar for a review. Joe Gore did the review and gave us 19 stars out of 20. When the magazine chose the Jazz Jr - as we named it - for their "best of the best" for their year's wrap-up edition, they said it was "stunningly good as a jazz guitar".
We did a couple of NAMM shows, that did me no good for sales, but I met some nice people and made some connections; and that is where I met Warmoth's own Aaron (what a super guy). We now have four models, three of which I'll show you below, unfinished - except for one - because I have a feeling you guys like to see work in progress. I'm not showing our single pickup model - the SB1-S Super Sport, as it's a lot like the SB1-R model except for having one (very differently voiced) pickup instead of two.
Here is a Jazz Jr, ready to be assembled
An SB2 electric 12 string, also in the queue (it gets three Firebird style pickups and out-chimes Ric 12s - to my ears at least)
Lastly, an SB1-R Rock Star model - ready for assembly
And finished (currently with a reviewer for a guitar magazine). If you've made it this far, thank you for your attention and interest.
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