Quarter Panel Guitar Co.

Quarter Panel Guitar Co. is all over ISM Brewing !!! We'll be having a big event here during the October Downtown Art Walk on October 12th, but you can come see our guitars every day starting NOW!!!

With Lace Pickups – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

Today is Louis Armstrong's birthday, you say? We have a guitar for that.

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Katherine Duarte, Doug Wheaton

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Brought Gidget out to Surf Guitar 101 festival in Long Beach

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Katherine Duarte, Doug Wheaton, Kenny McBride

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Thanks for all the music, John Mayall

RIP John Mayall

Made for jazz.

The Ambassador Satch guitar is the prototype of the Smuggler's Style Hypersonic model.

“Ambassador Satch” is an Art Series Hypersonic dedicated to Louie Armstrong's 1955 European tour as a cultural ambassador appointed by then President Eisenhower. This is the first Hypersonic modified into the Smuggler's style, and it has a clear pickgaurd in order to showcase the dioramic art piece inside. It has '64 replica single coil pickups and a 50's style wiring harness for a smooth jazz tone.

Guitar
Model: Hypersonic
Construction: Smuggler's Style Body
Controls: 1 Volume, 2 Tone, 5 Position Oak Grigsby lever switch
Colors: Highly-distressed Relic Stain
Finish: Matte Lacquer
Hardware Color: Chrome/Gold

Body
Core Wood: Palonia

Neck
Scale Length: 25.5
Shaft Wood: Canadian Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Maple
Neck Profile: Medium C
Radius: 12
Truss Rod: Dual Acting at Headstock
Fret Size: Nickel Silver Medium Jumbo
Fretboard Inlays: Black Dot
Side Markers: Black
Nut Width: 1 11/16
Number of Frets: 22
Fingerboard Edge: Heavy Rolled
Finish: Relic Amber

Pickups
Neck Pickup- Yes
Brand: Guitar Madness
Model: '64 Replica
Type: Single Coil
Middle Pickup- Yes
Brand: Guitar Madness
Model: '64 Replica
Type: Single Coil
Bridge Pickup- Yes
Brand: Guitar Madness
Model: '64 Replica
Type: Single Coil

Tuners
Gold locking

Bridge
Model: Vintage gold 6-screw floating (immobilized), white brass locking saddles

Additional Specs
The electronics configuration is constructed with vintage push-back wires and boasts 450G vintage dishback 250K pots, an Orange drop .047 tone cap (this also comes with a treble bleed on the volume), a 5-way Oak Grigsby lever switch, and Switchcraft jack.

It's the fin of a '57 Chevy with a guitar fretboard on it. Once you see it, it can't be unseen.

Big shout out to my top fans again! 💎 Katherine Duarte, Kenny McBride

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Quarter Panel Guitar Co. is different from a typical electric guitar repair shop. Our founder was inspired by custom car culture, and the hotrod shops that not only customized existing classic cars, but created hotrods out of “whole cloth”, using hand-made as well as new and vintage parts and outrageous aesthetics. Even our logo is designed to resemble the tail-fin on the rear quarter-panel of a 57 Chevy!

Here at Quarter Panel, we take the same approach. We aren’t restorers, we’re re-imaginers who can take a mediocre pawn-shop find, or even the old guitar in your closet that never sounds quite right, and create a truly exceptional Hotrod electric guitar. Or we can design a new electric guitar built from hand-made as well as new and vintage parts and components that captures your individual aesthetic and achieves your own signature sound when you play.

Whether you are a seasoned musician seeking a new instrument to inspire your creativity or an emerging artist looking for a unique sound to complement your style, Quarter Panel Guitar Company is dedicated to bringing your vision to life!

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Katherine Duarte, Kenny McBride

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The Sunfire guitar (Hypersonic model, professional series) is back from hanging on display at ISM Brewing 🍻for a couple of months 🎸 Come on in and give it a spin and see why you need a Quarter Panel Guitar Co. guitar in your collection!

Here's the specs:

The "Sunfire" guitar is a Hypersonic model created in 2022.

The “Sunfire” Hypersonic is a take on the classic ST, but with a twist. It has a beautiful hand-tooled and colored genuine leather pickguard. It also comes with a Black Beauty tone capacitor, no-load tone pots, heavy chrome top-hat k***s, and loaded with our very popular custom Wiggins Brand hand-wound single coil pickups.

Guitar
Model: "Sunfire" Hypersonic
Construction: Professional Series
Controls: 1 Volume, 2 Tone, 5 Position Oak Grigsby lever switch
Colors: Tri-tone Sunburst
Finish: Gloss Lacquer
Hardware Color: Chrome
Weight:

Body
Core Wood: Alder

Neck
Scale Length: 25.5
Shaft Wood: Canadian Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Laurel
Neck Profile: Medium C
Radius: 12
Truss Rod: Dual Acting at Headstock
Fret Size: Nickel Silver Medium Jumbo
Fretboard Inlays: Pearl Dot
Side Markers: Black
Nut Width: 1 11/16
Number of Frets: 22
Fingerboard Edge: Heavy Rolled
Finish: Tung Oil

Pickups
Neck Pickup- Yes
Brand: Wiggins Brand
Model:
Type: Single Coil
Middle Pickup- Yes
Brand: Wiggins Brand
Model:
Type: Single Coil
Bridge Pickup- Yes
Brand: Wiggins Brand
Model:
Type: Single Coil

Tuners
Chrome locking

Bridge
Model: PRS type floating with white brass locking saddles

Additional Specs
All the cavities have been copper shielded and grounded. Also features Bourns 250K pots, a Black Beauty .047 tone cap, and 5 way Oak Grigsby lever switch. Wired with the bridge pickup added to tone 2, and both tone pots are no load when they are turned up to "10" (they are cut out of the circuit giving a fuller sound by only having the load of the volume pot). The harness is totally solderless including the Switchcraft jack. All wiring done with vintage cloth pushback wire.

Genuine, working Electro-Harmonix Little Big M**f Pi pedal, ca. 1977!

Usually when someone who isn't a guitar player, much less a gear head like we are, gives you a bag of random pedals and says, "I think they might be vintage" that usually translates to "just beat-up looking". But this time it's true! Here's a real '77 Little Big M**f Pi, and it even works! We can date it to 1977 because it doesn't have a battery access door on the back (the LBM Pi didn't get that until 1979). It's not for sale, but if you're a true aficionado you should definitely come check it out and try one of our guitars while you're at it!

Thanks for the donation, Michael Mosselli!!!

Moody Blue on display at ISM Brewing !!!

Here's the specs:

Moody Blue

The Moody Blue guitar is a QP TV Set model built in 2024 by Robbie Brown for his own collection. It's aesthetic was inspired by his first favorite Rock & Roll album, Elvis Presley’s Moody Blue, from his late grandma's record collection. This guitar has an extremely distressed finish meant to pick up player wear quickly.

Guitar
Model: TV Set
Construction: Art Series
Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 3 Position Oak Grigsby lever switch
Colors: Heavy distressed whitewash with hand painted graphic
Finish: Unpolished gloss Lacquer over whitewash
Hardware Color: Chrome/brass

Body
Core Wood: Sycamore

Neck
Scale Length: 25.5
Shaft Wood: Maple
Fingerboard Wood: hand-painted maple slab
Neck Profile: Medium C
Radius: 12
Truss Rod: Dual Acting at Headstock
Fret Size: Nickel Silver Medium Jumbo
Fretboard Inlays: painted
Side Markers: Black
Nut Width: 1 11/16
Number of Frets: 22
Finish: Hand-painted

Pickups
Neck Pickup: Yes
Brand: Tone Hatch
Model: Hand-wound “Shin Kicker” matched set
Type: Single coil
Middle Pickup: No
Bridge Pickup: Yes
Brand: Tone Hatch
Model: Hand-wound “Shin Kicker” matched set
Type: Single coil

Tuners
Chrome vintage

Bridge
Klauson NOS (ca. 1978) high mass brass with individual high mass saddles

Other Specs
This is wired with a 3 way lever switch and Bourns 300k split shaft pots. The volume has a .001 capacitor and a 100k resistor for treble bleed, the tone has a .047 Orange Drop. This is all wired with vintage push back wire and a Switchcraft jack.

We're pleased to announce we've hired N'Orleans here to be our Director of Video Projects for the new Quarter Panel Guitar Co. YouTube channel! He's got his own equipment and he takes payment in belly rubs & treats, so it was kind of a slam dunk.

Hey it's his birthday!!!

Happy birthday to Paul McCartney from your fellow experimental artists at Quarter Panel Guitar Co. !

To set the record straight - The "Moody Blue" TV Set model with late 70's vintage brass Klauson bridge, hand-wound Tone Hatch matched pickup set, hand-painted art, and a distressed aesthetic complete with a pickgaurd cut from the Elvis album that inspired it's name