Handcrafted Guitars - Traditional Designs
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Cyr Custom
Guitars introduced a new line of Hand Crafted
instruments in 2003 that use the finest woods, finishes, and
electronics. Our goal is to build instruments that are unique
in the combinations of woods and designs, so that you will be
able to play an instrument that is the only one like it in the
world--an instrument that is exactly what YOU want!
The features and options for
these instruments include:
- Bodies:
- Maple or Alder bodies fabricated
by hand in the SMCTek shop
- Many exotic woods can be used
to build a unique instrument:
- Bookmatched Flame and Quilt
maple tops
- Flamed koa
- Claro Walnut
- What do you have in mind?
- Custom routings are available
for custom pickup installations and rear control cavities
- Bass styles include Jazz, Precision,
and the Cyr Guitars "Oakhurst" bass, and custom designs
on request
- Guitar styles include Strat,
Tele, and Jazzmaster. We can also do custom designs on request
- Necks:
- Birdseye and flame hard rock
maple--and other exotic woods are available as well
- Maple, Birdseye Maple, Rosewood,
Ebony are available for the fretboards
- SMCTek necks feature double-action
truss rods for maximum control and stability
- All sizes of fret wire are available,
as well as fretless with or without inlaid maple lines
- Abalone shell or mother-of-pearl
dot inlays
- We can do other types of inlays
as well
- Electronics:
- Pickups by Kent Armstrong, Bartolini,
MightyMite, Seymour Duncan, or whatever! Tell us what you want,
and we'll get it
- Active electronics or active
EQ can be installed
- Hardware:
- Guitar Bridges: Vintage Style,
Floyd Rose licensed, and Wilkinson tremolos are available, as
well as hardtail Bridges
- Bass Bridges: Cast Brass is
standard, and Schaller and other brands are available. We can
install strings through the body as well.
- Neck and pickguard screws are
stainless steel for a long rust-free life, and bass necks are
mounted with six neck screws for stability
- All brands of tuning machines
are available from aftermarket types to top name brands (Gotoh,
Schaller, Kluson, etc.)
- Finish:
- The necks are finished with
satin lacquer to enhance playability.
- Rosewood & Ebony fretboards
are oiled, maple fretboards are finished with satin lacquer
- High gloss lacquer is available
for the face of the headstock
- We can also do headstock overlays
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Electric Guitar Pricing
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Basic
instrument |
Price |
- Alder body
- Hard maple
neck
- Rosewood fingerboard
- Lacquer body
finish
- Kent Armstrong
S or LP pickups
- Tunomatic
or hardtail bridge
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$1200 |
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Swamp ash body |
+
$50 |
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12-string version |
+ $200 |
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Fender-style tremolo |
+ $60 |
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Exotic and figured wood tops |
$100 and up |
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Fingerboard and headstock inlays
(paua abalone or MOP dots are standard) |
Please call or email |
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Coil-split wiring |
+ $50 per pickup |
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Neck-through construction |
+
$200 |
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This guitar,
like the bass above, has been under construction since December
2003, when Steve started work on the neck while home at Christmas
from Hawaii. The guitar has these specs:
- Solid alder
2-piece body with a quilted maple bookmatched top.
- Neck characteristics:
- Highly-figured
flamed hard maple
- Indian rosewood
fretboard
- 12" radius
fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets
- Abalone 1/4"
position markers with white side marker dots
- 1-11/16"
wide at the nut
- Vintage V neck
profile--fast neck with a very nice feel
- Chrome hardware:
- Diecast tuners
- Hardtail bridge
with through-the-body string attachment
- Pickups
- Humbucking ceramic-magnet
pickup from TNT Guitars - great crunchy tone
- MightyMite ceramic
magnet single-coil pickups for that classic glassy tone
- Semi-gloss lacquer
finish
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These three pictures
are the second instrument hand-made by SMCTek. The body is alder,
with a five-piece top of walnut, flamed koa, and flame maple
(a bookmatched set with a lot of "character"). The
neck is flame maple with a rosewood fretboard, 7mm mother-of-pearl
position markers, a double-action truss rod, and it features
a vintage V profile. The pickups are Kent Armstrongs--the single
coils are model VS4 "Vintage Strat" pickups with AlNiCo
magnets, and the bridge pickup is a model WPU10 high-output distortion
humbucker. The center pickup is reverse-wound, reverse polarity.
The guitar features a hardtail bridge, and rear access to the
control cavity.
 
Swamp
Ash, Walnut, Koa, and Birdseye Tele
This is a new project in which
we are building a guitar that is similar in design to the Fender
Telecaster(tm). This one has a body made up of three pieces of
swamp ash with black walnut stripes, a heavily-figured birdseye
maple neck with a Pau Ferro fingerboard, gold hardware, and an
S/H pickup configuration.
The "Pickguard" is
a piece of bookmatched 3/16"-thick Hawaiian Koa cut to the
shape of a standard Telecaster pickguard. This piece was left
over from a drop-top I made up for another guitar. It's inlaid
into the top of the guitar body.
The neck is made from an absolutely
gorgeous piece of birdseye maple, with a Pau Ferro fingerboard.
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