You love your guitar, and its years of loyal service encourage you to give it a makeover, or you want to change the image without changing your habits, or possibly you want to improve the performance of your guitar with new pickups – no problem, the Hervé Tonnard Custom Shop is there for you.
The lucky owner of this excellent guitar wanted a radical change of image with a new colour, the pearl white varnish was showing signs of age after many years of intensive use.
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The owner of this superb Tune bass guitar wanted to change to a fretless but retain the original neck.
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The client came to me with a clean Kit Warmoth and a black and white sketch drawn by one of his illustrator friends - Damien Ciocca, whose work you can see on http://damien.ciocca.free.fr. The chosen colour was specially created for this client.
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Take a Stratocaster whose neck is causing problems, keep the body, build a new neck to your own measurements, strip the body, modify it, revarnish the whole in your colour of choice, install pick-ups designed especially for you and you obtain YOUR Stratocaster, unique and not existing in the otherwise complete Fender catalogue.
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Generally, unless it is the replacement of a lost logo or a restoration, I am not a fan of inlays - which I believe to be useless overloading of detail in order to appear « luxurious » or to show off the incredible technical know-how of the skilled artisan who creates them - which often only serve to destroy the purity of design of instruments which they are intended to improve. A technically perfect inlay can also fail if the drawing is not of high quality.
This guitar (you can see the restoration on the repairs/restoration page) is, on the other hand, a perfect example of beauty, balance and elegance, which is set off by its extreme simplicity. Classy, in other words. When you remember that the maker’s logo is, unusually, on the back of the headstock, you will understand that sobriety and humility are the keywords of the creators of this sublime instrument.
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