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2024 brings significant change. I am actively seeking manufacturing partners and volume OEM licensing arrangements. If you are a manufacturer or investor who understands the potential, please contact me.
Rick Toone | Luthier, LLC has an established portfolio of patents covering the most advanced guitar and bass component systems, including: neck technology, multi-scale capable bridges, multi-scale capable modular tremolo, as well as the new retrofit-compatible tremolo system with incredible best-in-class performance. Multiple additional patents pending.
I create guitars and basses for some of the best players in the world. Yours will be an incredible machine when it leaves my shop, and made to last a lifetime. If you already own one of my instruments and are seeking an upgrade to the latest electronics, or servicing, please contact me for an estimate.
I look forward to speaking with you.
email: ricktoone@gmail.com
“Don’t try to comprehend the incomprehensible. Just build and release them into an unsuspecting world.” — Steve Blucher (DiMarzio)
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I sometimes offer new creations on an instant gratification basis. Instruments from my imagination, at surprising moments. These will appear as completed, without prior announcement. First come, first serve basis. International clients please check your local import taxes. All guitars ship via UPS, fully insured. Client pays shipping.
AVAILABLE • Sketch™ 7-string Guitar — Built for Tosin Abasi in 2011. Investment grade instrument. $1.5 MM USD. Will entertain serious offers.
AVAILABLE • Gold Top Skele™ — Gold Top Skele™ is a perfect blend of semi-hollowbody warmth with single coil spank. Classic tones with a completely modern twist. Details on this beautiful instrument include: carbon fiber, mother of pearl, alder, aircraft grade birch. Polished stainless steel frets in state-of-the-art Richlite fretboard. Quartersawn torrefied flame maple neck w/tilt back headstock and luthier's joint. Advantage™ neck profile including Fretboard Flare™ geometry. Bare Knuckle custom pickups with 10-way switching. Patented & patent pending Pisces™ tremolo precision machined from stainless steel and aircraft aluminum. $16,500 USD plus shipping.
SOLD • 2024 NAMM Spearfish™ — International Orange. Swamp ash body. Patented Element™ neck machined from aircraft aluminum. Patented Intonation Cantilever™ solo bridges. Custom Bare Knuckle Polymath pickups with 10-way switching. Carbon fiber pickguard. This is the actual guitar displayed and played in the Bare Knuckle Pickups booth at 2024 NAMM show. Your chance to own a piece of history. $13,500 USD plus shipping.
SOLD • White Pearl Skele™ — White Pearl Skele™ is a perfect blend of semi-hollowbody warmth with single coil spank. Classic tones with a completely modern twist. Details on this beautiful instrument include: carbon fiber, mother of pearl, alder, aircraft grade birch. Polished stainless steel frets in state-of-the-art Richlite fretboard. Quartersawn torrefied flame maple neck w/tilt back headstock and luthier's joint. Advantage™ neck profile including Fretboard Flare™ geometry. Bare Knuckle custom pickups with 10-way switching. Patented & patent pending Pisces™ tremolo precision machined from stainless steel and aircraft aluminum. $15,500 USD plus shipping.
WAIT LIST • Pisces™ Limited Edition Series — Limited edition fine art guitar series featuring patented & patent-pending Pisces™ tremolo combined with Element™ neck. Aircraft aluminum, carbon fiber, alder/swamp ash. DiMarzio™ noiseless pickups. Each guitar in the Pisces™ series is a one-off work of art — finishes are unique and bespoke. Pricing begins at $14,500 USD plus shipping.
WAIT LIST • RICK TOONE ‘67 Guitar Series — Learn more about this exciting new development. Pricing begins at $5,700 USD plus shipping.
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SOLD • Birdseye Pisces™ — AAAA birdseye maple neck w/Advantage™ profile. Alder body. Carbon fiber pickguard. DiMarzio™ noiseless pickups designed by Steve Blucher. Patented Pisces™ trem.
SOLD • Sea Monster Pisces™ — Swamp ash, quarter-sawn one piece AAA flame maple neck w/Advantage™ profile. Polished stainless steel frets. Carbon fiber. Precision machined components from aircraft aluminum and stainless steel. DiMarzio noiseless pickups designed by Steve Blucher. Patented Pisces™ trem.
SOLD • Blood Orange Goshawk™ — Bare Knuckle™ VH2 & Juggernaut brings Blood Orange Goshawk™ strongly into modern rock/progressive/metal territory. Organic woodiness and exceptional dynamics. Swamp ash solid body. Natural flame maple neck w/Advantage™ profile. Patented Intonation Cantilever™ bridges.
SOLD • Conquistador Spearfish™ — Recorded extensively by Dany Villarreal during The Warning’s yet to be named third studio album. Masterpiece of tone and lutherie. Art and a moment of music history.
SOLD • ‘American Girl’ Goshawk™ — Lindy Fralin hand-wound custom pickups with sweet organic classic 50’s Tele/Strat/Les Paul voicing. Swamp ash solid body, torrefied flame maple, carbon fiber. Patented Intonation Cantilever™ bridges.
SOLD • Moria Spearfish™ 24-fret — Played extensively by Daniela Villarreal during recording of The Warning band’s third studio album (producer: David Bendeth). Swamp ash, carbon fiber. Element™/Intonation Cantilever™ component set. Bare Knuckle™ Silo & Ragnarok piciups with 10-way switching.
SOLD • Dark Orchid™ Bass — Swamp ash treated in traditional Japanese method, aircraft grade birch, ebony, carbon fiber. Advantage™ neck profile. Patented Intonation Cantilever™ individual string tuner-bridges. Lindy Fralin Split-Jazz™ pickups.
SOLD • Shou Sugi Ban 8-String — Element™/Intonation Cantilever™ component set. Swamp ash treated in traditional Japanese method, carbon fiber. Bare Knuckle Nailbomb™ pickups with 6-way switching.
SOLD • Harp Guitar (6+6-String) — Element™/Intonation Cantilever™/Positional Constant™ component set. Mahogany. Carbon fiber, stainless steel. DiMarzio™ pickups with 6-way switching. Fitted SKB iSeries waterproof ATA custom case.
SOLD • Little Angle Wing™ 8-String — Element™/Intonation Cantilever™ component set. Swamp ash. Carbon fiber. DiMarzio™ pickups with 6-way switching. On display at NAMM 2020: Booth 2726 Hall E.
SOLD • 2019 Spearfish (Vintage Sunburst Relic) – Element™/Intonation Cantilever™ component set. Swamp ash solid body with light relic vintage sunburst nitro finish. Exclusive DiMarzio™ pickups with 10-way switching.
SOLD • Spearfish™ (Moby Dick) — Element™/Intonation Cantilever™ component set. Swamp ash. Exclusive DiMarzio™ pickups with 10-way switching.
SOLD • Modern Archtop™ — Element™/Intonation Cantilever™ component set. Cherry wood archtop body with carbon fiber. Exclusive DiMarzio pickups with 5-way switching.