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.
Pretty sure I forgot to show this to you… it’s my new body mount.
I use my router table for a bunch of different things, like mounting the binding cutting jig from @luthiersmercantile and using the sled from @stewmac_guitar … But now it gets used a lot for jigging up acoustic bodies. I modified some cheap bar clamps and rigged it all up with T-bolts, using the guides on the table and on the top of the fence. This system works so well. Easy to set up and break down, extra safe on delicate bodies with soft wood, extremely stable and rigid. Handy for all the endgraft work and cutting neck joints, fitting the neck, etc.
Not shown here is the head block support. There’s an extra part on the back that supports and clamps to the guitar from the bottom.
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It’s been raining here a lot lately. This allows me to open my door and not worry about humidity control. In fact, it’s been more humid than any monsoon season I’ve seen in my 20 years #loothin in #flagstaffarizona
I’ve never had a problem with excessive humidity for more than about a day until this season.
We usually get some good #monsoon rains here in @flagstaff_arizona @downtownflagstaff @cityofflagstaffparks #flagstaff
…But this year it’s like I remember from a decade ago, but much more #humid. The #flooding has been more detrimental than any other year on record.
Here’s a look at our new custom jig for routing my new end graft design. Thanks to Tom @cothrun.manufacturing for turning my idea into reality. This jig design solves a few problems with my curved pattern and adds variability for different guitar body depths and inlay widths as needed per use.
Tom knew exactly what I was getting at with my drawings. Without much discussion he engineered this routing jig with some features I hadn’t even thought of, and solved some problems I had barely foresaw.
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In the woods, still “tracing figures in the tree bark.”
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Working on my new endgraft #inlay jig #prototype ... Can’t wait to show you when it’s done. This is basically my last template and jig needed to finalize my new process for acoustic builds. When this damn thing is done I’ll be able to move forward quickly with everything on the wait list.
I’ve been working on this design for a few weeks— oh I’m sorry I meant a few months now! I’m hoping to do some work with @cothrun.manufacturing to refine this and make a custom template that can be adjusted and used on various guitars with different body depths.
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Happy #solstice to everyone. The train near my house is loud. But it’s worth it.
From our newsletter...
Today we enter into summer and the second half of the year. I wanted to say thanks to you for being here and staying on the ride with me.
I know it's been a while. I've been on somewhat of a break lately... foot off the gas pedal. Cruising. Life in 2021 has been up and down, but we've made progress on a lot of things. Repairs never seem to stop. And Solstice currently has 7 guitars in process...
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Ok this is something I find really cool. Here’s one of the better examples I’ve seen in person on a camping trip recently with @ryanzalevsky
Credit and reference from the Somogyi text... sunspin twist patterns. Or better yet, hemispherical heliotropism.
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Not sure which is my new favorite tool yet. The @elevatelutherie rolling pin sander, or my @totalvise bench swivel pedestal. Both are amazing!
We’ll have more posts of new jigs, tools and fixtures coming soon. I’m finally getting done setting up some better stations for production after the move last year. Looking forward to showing you.
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This #cedar top smells #amazing every time I scrape or sand it... competing to take the #olfactory crown from BRW. 😋
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Finally back at it after taking a month off. I had to go clear my head, take care of family, and finish organizing and setting up shop after the covid move last year.
It’s been one year since I closed my retail store. After making quick work in setting up a new space to continue with repairs, I never got fully settled and organized properly, especially for building operations.
I spent the last week reorganizing, setting up a new dust collection system, and getting some stations ready for the build process. Time to get back on schedule!
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Couple of Transit necks just about ready for #finish. The curly maple neck showing off those Evo Gold frets from @jescarmusic ... that #neck rings like a bell BTW.
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