Rick Toone

Goshawk | SSB

Goshawk Guitar
PHOTOS: Goshawk™ 6-string guitar. Swamp ash solid body with traditional Japanese Shou sugi ban finish.
PHOTOS: Ebony, carbon fiber, bone, mother of pearl, flame maple. Proprietary DiMarzio™ pickups. Patented Intonation Cantilever™ bridges precision machined from stainless steel.

Stealth

13 pin jack
PHOTO: CYCFI pickups with dual 13-pin and 1/4″ outputs.
Carbon fiber guitar
PHOTO: Armrest for ergonomic support of right forearm.

We begin 2021 with a radical acoustic guitar. Don’t be seduced by the CYCFI pickups into believing this machine is an electric. It’s not.

A carbon fiber top floats freely, suspended only by minimalist stainless steel projections. String response is immediate, lively, visceral.

Stealth guitar
PHOTO: Stealth carbon fiber and aircraft aluminum acoustic guitar.

Moria | Spearfish 24

PHOTOS: Spearfish 24-fret “Moria” featuring patent-pending Element™ neck machined from single billet aircraft grade aluminum. Swamp Ash, carbon fiber. Moria was set up and used on drop D tuning songs throughout the album, due to be released in spring of 2021.
PHOTOS: Daniela Villarreal played Spearfish “Moria” extensively during the recording of The Warning band’s third studio album. Produced by David Bendeth and recorded primarily in Sound On Sound studio, Montclair, New Jersey, September-November, 2020. (photos: Rudy Joffroy, The Warning Manager)
PHOTOS: Bare Knuckle Silo neck pickup with Ragnarok bridge pickup. 10-position switching. Patented Intonation Cantilever™ solo string bridges machined from stainless steel.
PHOTO & VIDEO: Signal chain used in the video Noble Bass DI > Strymon Iridium > Logic Audio. No channel switching was used to achieve the overdrive tones.

Bleached Bone | Spearfish 22

Bleached Bone Spearfish Guitar
Spearfish Guitar
PHOTO: Spearfish™ component set with patented Intonation Cantilever™ bridges and patent-pending Element™ neck precision machined from single billet aircraft aluminum.

Rick,

The bleached bone finish is beautiful and definitely unique! The aluminum neck is the thinnest and most comfortable neck I have ever played on (and is cool looking too). The pick-ups sound incredible, and I love the 10-way pick-up selector switch! This guitar will make me a better player!

I mostly play blues based music direct into an amp (recently Mesa TC50).

I gave Chris Buono a quick peek Monday night during our skype guitar lesson session (he had his Goshawk sitting out). I think he was totally shocked!!

Thank you again!!

Sean Kendrick

Rick Toone Guitar
PHOTO: Bleached bone finish on Swamp Ash. Carbon fiber pick guard. Proprietary DiMarzio pickups with 10-way switching.

King Lear | Goshawk

King Lear
Goshawk Guitar

The crown was too heavy for the old man’s head. Lear resented the weight, the headache, exhaustion of it all, blue eyes bloodshot, his frail neck strained, wisps of white hair trembling.

He wanted to be done, yet the lust for power dominates long after physical appetites erode. Once experienced, desire to command and be obeyed is not easily relinquished.

Lear felt a certain responsibility, as well. He believed, as all fools do, his will should dictate distribution of wealth amongst men. So thus cleverly, he devised to bestow a kingdom’s treasures between his children — decided in proportion by the earnestness of their public professions of love for his magnanimity.

From each, according to their avarice, to each according to their guile.

Rick Toone Guitar

I wanted to reflect emotions of Shakespeare’s King Lear at this moment of descent into madness. His armor and clothing cast off in a tremendous storm, freezing, covered in mud, raving to the heavens how he had been betrayed…when all along the destruction was of his own making.

Swamp ash, roasted flame maple, bone, carbon fiber. Layers of finish depth, patina of antiquity, raw metal of medieval armor. Driven by gleaming precision machined patented Intonation Cantilever™ stainless steel bridges, polished stainless steel frets, and the most versatile but subtle electronics I’ve yet installed.

Measured in terms of tonal sophistication, my builds will be judged as separated into pre-Lear vs. post-Lear epochs.

Rick Toone