Build Your Transit
All available options & upgrades are listed in the form to the right. Many options are included in the base price. Certain features and upgrades have additional charges where indicated.
Body Options: We also offer the Transit as a solid body or chambered without the sound hole.
Neck Choices: choose your nut width, neck profile, fingerboard radius, and wood preferences. Maple fingerboards get finished with a poly clear-coat to protect the playing surface.
Upgrade Options: enhance the tone and aesthetics of your Transit with these specific menu items.
Pickups Choices: stock pickups for the Transit are a Seymour Duncan P-Rail in the bridge position, and for the neck it's your choice of either a Phat Cat P-90 or a Five-Two for Tele, also by Duncan.
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Recently I was debating whether or not to continue using #carbonfiber reinforcement bars... which I’ve been doing for a while in addition to the two way truss rod. I’m convinced after this last batch of necks that they also provide a tonal #enhancement, or at least a differential. Which I think is very #positive. Not to mention the stability... after my necks settle and get an initial adjustment, they are of the most stable necks I’ve seen. Anyway, I’m sticking with the plan for now!
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Things are #comingtogether.
#carbonfiber #tone support rods and truss rod installed on a couple Transit necks. Help me choose. What do you think, black or blond?
This is #Grenadillo, or Mexican #Rosewood, or #Macacauba. It’s a #beautiful looking and rosewood-like #hardwood. It’s not a true #dalbergia but look at that amazing spalted sapwood! I believe this is the more rare Platymiscium pleiostachyum, the best of the Grenadillos, also the most #endangered. This #varietal of Grenadillo is also called Hormigo.
I don’t feel too concerned about the endangerment of this species. Furniture makers and industrial harvesters use wood in a way that instrument makers never could or would (wood?, sorry bad joke.) But anyway, a full single tree would last a lifetime of guitar building for me and a dozen other independent builders. This is the kind of #woodworking that these trees should be used for. Meaning, there is still plenty of wood, even #endangered wood, if it is reserved for the artists and kept away from the #industrialist operations.
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Some shots from New Years.
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#spafford #spaffnerds #nova #novabass #solstice #solsticeguitars #custombass #electricbass #jam
Time to re-sort the #stash
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Setting up a new process for cutting my acoustic #neck #joints
A new process for me anyway... I’ll show you more as this comes along. #Excited for this #improvement with our #process.
#jigging #jig #jigsystem
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Only #hideglue for all acoustic top braces, back braces and bridge joint. #solsticeguitars
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Sharing some things with you I didn’t get to last year...
This was Opus no. 4... she was #brazilian
This guitar led to the current body design for my Ecliptic model. It’s my favorite binding combo... curly mahogany and/or koa are #fine looking. #maple side #purfling
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Here’s a better look at Opus no. 3
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Can’t tell you how much I love #trees .
Here’s a look at Opus #2 which is this sister to #opus #3. Both of these guitars served as the launching pad for my acoustic #designs and #pursuits. I always meant to keep this one. But you know how that goes...
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