Our Standard series guitars are crafted from our old stock timbers and celebrate the classic feel and tone's established in the mid 1950s that are still the benchmark today.
With a wide range of options available, you can create a unique instrument to suit your specific tonal palette ,playing style and specifications.
Crafted in Detroit by our small team these include: American hardware, Hand wound custom spec Echopark pickups, Nitrocellulose lacquer finishes all built with our coveted selection of tone woods.
The Clarence Standard
Virtually unchanged since it's initial form was designed in 1945!! This is the one that got away !! The 1969 Tri-Sonic R&D CLF version of the classic T style prototype and master template's that were discovered at Clarence's lab in 1990 right after his passing.
Hand crafted using slab alder body, Rock maple 22 fret neck with a medium jumbo frets, A true vintage spec 56-T/gold coil pickup set that is Guttural ,Articulate, bold and punchy teamed with a raw steel bridge plate and intonating saddles. The updated 4 position selector switch allows for a much wider variety of tones and topped off by a small rainbow of our traditional nitrocellulose lacquer finishes.
This is the last original design crafted by the master himself and we offer it in his honor.