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Lakewood J-32

Jumbo body, rosewood back and sides, snake wood binding, magic symbol inlays, magic symbol rosette and AAA engelmann spruce top.  Custom neck width and jumbo fret wire make this fun for playing just about anything.  This guitar has tons of volume and surprisingly great balance.  Black sperzel tuning machines make string changing quick and easy.  This guitar is outfitted with a Sunrise/I-Beam pickup combination.

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Lakewood M-22

This is my main guitar for most of my gigs. The cutaway and the wide neck make it an all around great guitar for both finger style and flat picking. The Walnut back and sides and the Spruce top yield a round balanced tone that is great for recording. Due to the multitude of tunings that I use, I’ve installed Sperzel locking tuners. I use a Sunrise pick up in the sound hole and an L.R. Baggs Dual Source Transducer/Microphone Combo. There are two output jacks on the guitar to process each signal independently.    

My most recent acquisition. I’ve always wanted a 12 string and the timing was right when I saw this one. This guitar sounds like a piano when played live! The Mahogany back and sides/Spruce top gives this monster a punch that always turns heads in the crowd. This guitar also as the same electronics as the Lakewood.

My pride and joy! I’ve had this guitar for some time now and there’s not a gig that goes by that someone doesn't ask, "What the hell is that?" This guitar is made entirely of Koa wood and on a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate it a strong 8 in terms of the shape it is in. It has such a mellow magical tone that's like a fine wine, it gets better with time. This guitar is played seated with a steel bar in your fret hand. This guitar is outfitted with a Sunrise in the sound hole. 

     This instrument is based loosely off of a Knutsen/Dyer style harp guitar.  Besides having a regular six string neck, there are six additional bass strings that extend off a second bridge and travel up to a second headstock.  These sub-bass strings do not have a fretboard and are suspended off the instrument and function as drone strings.  They can be tuned to a variety of notes and provide a sustaining open note for any chord.  The instrument is constructed of highly figured Claro walnut back and sides, Claro walnut neck, and Englemann spruce top. The binding is 3-ply walnut and sycamore.
     It has 14 frets to the body instead of 12 and has a bolt-on neck. The bridge design is similar to Lance McCollum's, with the sub bass bridge angled back to compensate for the scale length of the bass strings. The harp headstock is carved to resemble the f-scroll of a mandolin, rather than flat with the inlays.
     The body design and bracing is based off of Davis's six-string guitar design. The design is not intended to be a vintage replica, but rather to keep the concept the same while building something more technically up to date.

To learn more about these unique instruments go to http://www.harpguitars.net.
To learn more about J. Thomas Davis check out www.jthomasdavis.com. 
Harpguitars.com now has a page featuring my Davis harp guitar.

Photos of my Harp guitar in the process of being built at J. Thomas Davis

IT"S FINISHED! Here are some photos!

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