Spearfish Tremolo | Blueprint

BLUEPRINT | ˈblo͞oˌprint | (noun) a design plan or technical drawing that acts as a model, or template.

Testing and refining the Fender-compatible tremolo design over this past year, I thought the extraordinary bridge performance could be best realized with a purpose-designed guitar.

Pairing the Rick Toone™ tremolo with the Element™ aluminum neck allows for seasonal stability, across continents and climates. Perfect, consistent, string action in changing temperature and humidity conditions. No adjustments required.

String action is also consistent — even during radical tremolo use. New musical techniques become possible.

Spearfish™ platform was chosen due to its proven design and delightful ergonomics.

The result is a reliable, light weight, balanced, comfortable guitar ready for professional touring/studio.

PHOTOS: Rick Toone™ tremolo retrofit-capable for Fender Stratocaster™ guitars. Precision machined in USA from aircraft aluminum and stainless steel. Patented, multiple patents pending.
PHOTOS: Element™ 24-fret aircraft aluminum neck. Spearfish™ neck system has been fully redesigned. Precise, repeatable installation and removal for air travel. Position markers are pass-through design for tactile orientation with maximum visibility. Continuing the slender Element™ theme of 0.5″/12.7mm now with new soft C profile. Familiar 25.5″ scale length with polished stainless steel frets.
PHOTO: Spearfish™ headstock with six-in-line for rapid tuning. Tilt back design with straight string path optimizes tension across the nut. Precise return to pitch.
PHOTO: Spearfish™ 6-string tremolo guitar. Blueprint art finish. Swamp ash, carbon fiber, aircraft aluminum, stainless steel. 6-way switching for true single coil and humbucker tones. Intuitive controls at your fingertips. Reliable machined aluminum output jack positioned below, allowing tremolo arm to swing freely. Pickguard-mounted electronics for simple servicing, without removing neck or trem.

Henry Kaiser | Spore

VIDEO: Henry Kaiser shares gorgeous ambient improv playing on SPORE 6-string guitar. There are so many things I love about this recording. Notice the massive, immersive, soundscape Henry paints with such economy of motion. His fingerstyle and subtle trem. Harmonics. Skull shirt. Our conversations behind the scenes indicates a surprising signal chain…the only reveal here is there is no looping: only delays. Grateful thank you to Henry for recording this video, and also for acquiring SPORE. When I built the guitar I knew it needed to be in the hands of someone special.

“I took the liberty of keeping it psychedelic behind your end title after I finished playing
it is SPORE, after all    
and the guitar told me to make it like that” (HK)

Spearfish Vapor

PHOTOS: Spearfish Vapor™ 6-string guitar. Swamp ash, carbon fiber. Patented component set precision machined from aircraft aluminum and stainless steel. Bare Knuckle custom pickups with 10-way switching.

(begin)

screen will now go dark

not just this screen

every screen

everywhere

if (no = ipadphonecarsmarttvterminalAI)

if (can’t poke box for answer)

then (what happens next)

IF: you want to run a software self-diagnostic — abstain from all screen interactions for 24 hours. Do not allow your brain to access any electronic or media content: visual, sound, written. (24 hours)

>> Return your sensory input to: only what you can directly perceive using your own five senses.

IF: you want to run a simultaneous hardware self-diagnostic — abstain from all nutrition input for 24 hours. Including water. Do not allow your body to access any calories or fluids. Dry fasting. (24 hours)

>> Allow your body to: only breathe.

Q: What do you notice?

VAPOR | ˈvāpər | (noun) a substance diffused or suspended in the air, especially one normally liquid or solid.

Wingspan Fretless Multiscale

PHOTOS: Seemingly simple, yet infinitely deep.

I. AM. SPEECHLESS. Lost for words. Thank you!
(Steve Sjuggerud)

Machine Gun

VIDEO: Joe Cirotti works out the Rick Toone ’67 trem on Jimi’s Machine Gun. Caleb Estey on drums. Wayne Lyle, bass. February 7, 2025 @ Bernie’s Hillside Lounge, Chester, NJ. (video courtesy of John Barless Pellichero)

Dude I used the ’67 guitar for a Hendrix show. Fucking thing absolutely decimated. 14 and a half minutes that song was. Wailing on the trem. By the end it was still in tune. Crazy! (Joe Cirotti)