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Our Luthier, Paul Von Schmidt, has done a wide variety of custom and repair work for many famous musicians , including but not limited to: Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ian Hunter, Dave Matthews, Stefan Lessard , Dennis Dunaway, Sam Rivers, James "Munky" Shaffer, and many more (I can't remember all of them). Here are a few pictures of some of the work he has done (click read more to see all of them, more pictures coming soon): This guitar was custom designed and painted for Dave Matthews, to include ane elephant on the face of the guitar. The picture isn't the best, but if you rotate your head to yourleft you should see the elephant. 
Here is a picture (before and after) of some custom fretwork that Paul did for Stefan Lessard, as per a design drawn by Stefan himself. If you ever have any cool designs or pictures that you'd like on a guitar, Paul is your man. The design , as drawn, is at the top of the picture. 
Some of you may know about Sam River's signature "glowing fretboard" on his bass guitar. Well, Paul was the man responsible for that. He took Sam River's bass and turned it into a "glowing fretless wonder". 
Paul managed to take this guitar and polish it up quite nicely. The holes on the back of the headstock were filled in and painted. 
Any Metallica fans? We've done a few "James Hettfield"-like guitars for customers before. Here is a Gibson Explorer, before and after: 
Here are two "Frankensteined" guitars created for passionate EVH fans.  With all due respect, I really don't blame the owner of this guitar for deciding to do a "EVH Makeover". Some skulls were just not meant to be there... |