Guitars
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The Drifter is my stripped‑down homage to the classics. Inspired by the Esquire and the earliest blackguards, it’s built on the belief that a single pickup guitar tells the purest truth. Just pine, maple, and raw power—no frills, no distractions.
By limiting options, you unlock freedom. Instead of chasing “do‑it‑all” versatility, the Drifter focuses on doing one thing with unmatched conviction. Less really is more: when the clutter falls away, creativity rises.
25.5 Scale
2 Piece roasted Pine body
Roasted Maple Neck with asymmetrical carve
9.5 Rosewood Board
Kluson Button tuners
Real aged clay dots
Bone Nut
Gravelin Tele bridge pickup
I volume
1 Tone with push pull that bypasses tone knob to achieve esquire brightness
Wilkinson Bridge
Treble bleed and Paper and Oil Tone Capacitor
This is a $300 non refundable deposit towards the base price of $2699. The remaining balance is due on completion of your instrument. Shipping is included for Continental U.S. customers.
Your deposit locks in your price and adds you to the waitlist.
Once you place a deposit you will recieve your instrument in 8-10 weeks.
The Summit sits right between worlds — part 335, part Tele, all attitude. It’s a semi‑hollow built around a full center block, giving it that familiar air and resonance, but with the focus and punch that only a solid spine of wood can deliver. Paired with a 25.5" scale, the feel is instantly alive: snappy, open, and effortless under the hands, like the guitar is leaning forward with you.
This body is its own thing — not the Cove, not the Mariner. The Summit has a different silhouette, a different voice, a different kind of authority. It’s the largest design, built to push back just enough to make you play a little harder, dig a little deeper.
Loaded with Greenville Saboteurs, it gives you all the ooey‑gooey humbucker richness you’d expect from a semi‑hollow, but with a clarity that never muddies up. Then there’s the short Tele bridge — brass saddles and just enough of that Tele snap to remind you where half its DNA comes from.
It’s the best of both worlds: the bloom and warmth of a semi‑hollow, the bite and immediacy of a Tele, and a feel that makes you want to keep playing long after you should’ve put it down.
The Summit is where classic shapes meet new lines, where familiar tones get a little wilder, and where the whole guitar feels like it’s breathing with you.
Comes with a deluxe gigbag.
The guitar pictured is a prototype. The production models will have a roasted flame maple top, roasted quartsawn back, and roasted pine sides. The input jack will also be mounted on the sides.
This is a $300 non refundable deposit towards the base price of $1999. The remaining balance is due on completion of your instrument. Shipping is included for Continental U.S. customers.
Your deposit locks in your price and adds you to the waitlist.
Once you place your deposit your instrument will be finished in 8-10 weeks.
The Cove — Unique but Familiar
The Cove is built for players who want inspiration right at their fingertips. I have always loved the charm of those 60s department store guitars and the way their quirks pushed me into new ideas. With the Cove, I wanted to keep that spirit but raise the craftsmanship to a level those old instruments never reached. It is the vibe you remember, without the compromises.
A quarter inch bolt on neck with threaded inserts locks the joint in place for a lifetime. The hand carved asymmetrical neck has a smooth oil finish that feels instantly familiar, the kind of neck that settles into your hands without effort.
People always mention the sustain and the weight. Roasted pine for the solid bodies and roasted flame maple for the hollow versions give the guitars a lively, opened up sound, almost like they have already spent years being played. Both versions land around five to six pounds, light and comfortable without drifting into neck heavy territory.
I finish each Cove with natural dyes, oils, and paints. The coating stays thin, warm to the touch, and never needs upkeep. Every guitar is set up for easy, effortless play because playing should feel inviting, not like something you have to wrestle with.
The Cove is not an S type, a T type, or a single cut copy. It is a blend of everything I have learned from years of building and studying guitars. Familiar enough to feel like home, but different enough to spark something new every time you pick it up
Specs:
Nut width- 1 11/16
Scale Length- 25.5
Truss rod- Duel acting, adjust at head
Nut material- Bone
Inlay- Pearl Horseshoe crab
Bridge- Schroeder top load half bridge
Controls- 1 volume, 1 tone
Capacitors- Volume kit on volume pot. Paper and oil tone cap on tone pot.
Comes with a heavy duty deluxe gigbag
Options that are no upcharge:
Color- Check out various colors on Gallery page
Fingerboard Material- Rosewood, or Crelicam Ebony
Fingerboard radius- 9.5, 12
Tuners- Keystone, button
Knobs- Practically endless options
Pickups- Greenville Shea Phoenix Set, Greenville Beauty Parlor p90, Greenville High Noon full size humbuckers, Seymour Duncan Lipstick Pickups
Top Dot Material- Pearl, or aged clay
Upcharge Options
This is a $300 non refundable deposit towards the base price of $2399. The remaining balance is due on completion of your instrument. Shipping is included for Continental U.S. customers.
Your deposit locks in your price and adds you to the waitlist.
Once you place a deposit youll receive your instrument in 8-10 weeks.
The Beginnings
The Mariner started as a tracing I drew years ago — a little offset shape with two f‐holes that lived on my shop wall while other designs came and went. No matter what I was building, that sketch stayed pinned up, waiting for its moment. In 2026, it finally got its time to shine. The Mariner is built entirely from roasted woods: roasted flame maple for the top, roasted quartersawn maple for the back, and roasted pine sides, paired with a roasted flame maple neck and a ebony fingerboard. It’s a smaller guitar, but it never feels cramped or toy‐like. With a 24.625" scale and a 12" radius, it feels instantly familiar in your hands. It’s the guitar I reach for at the end of a long day — the one that pulls new ideas out of me because it doesn’t play or sound like anything else I’ve built.
Unique Qualities
I designed it to be more hollow and more acoustic‐leaning than the Cove — the next step deeper into true hollow body territory. It uses the same Phoenix pickup I spec for the Cove, made by my friends at Greenville Pickups in Warren, MI. The Phoenix is built like a Firebird pickup with an A2 magnet, and it pairs beautifully with the Mariner’s airy, resonant body.
Who is the Mariner for?
It’s for a cowboy to sling over his back while riding off into the sunset. It is also for anyone, even if you aren’t an equestrian. Since there’s only a neck pickup, I install a push pull on the volume to split the coils. It gives you a more treble and airy hollow sound. I dont find myself missing a bridge pickup when I play it. This guitar responds dramatically to where you pick: closer to the bridge gives you bite and treble, while drifting toward the neck warms up into that smoky, rounded sweetness. Sonically, the Mariner covers a surprising amount of ground. It can do the down‐tuned hollow‐doom thing, the jazz‐box thing, and with a touch of overdrive, it wanders straight into swampy, atmospheric territory.
This is a $300 non refundable deposit towards the base price of $2299. The remaining balance is due on completion of your instrument. Shipping is included for Continental U.S. customers.
Your deposit locks in your price and adds you to the waitlist.
Once you place a deposit you will receive your instrument in 8-10 weeks.
The Breaker carries that Shea Guitars signature: familiar lines pulled into a new tide. It feels like a lost classic that finally washed ashore, shaped by hand and taken somewhere fresh. The hand carved comfort contours and offset silhouette give it a stance all its own, far from the usual S‑type crowd. Paired with the hand‑carved asymmetrical neck and the detail‑driven build you’re known for, the Breaker is the S‑style that ends the search.
Standard Specs
Roasted swamp ash or roasted pine body
25.5 Scale Roasted Maple Neck with either rosewood or ebony board 9.5 radius with 6105 frets
3 Gold foil covered standard strat pickups (Greenville Pickups Champion set shown) (endless pickup configurations available)
Trem Gotoh 2 point EVH510TS (more options available)
Gotoh Tuners
Bone Nut
Standard Strat wiring