Honey Brown Rattler

SOLD

Finished this one between coats of paint on the other guitars. VERY nice little Rattler model with a Honey Brown finish

Finally finished this one

Finally finished a Tomohawk for David Slack

Only took me 8 months (I used to build one of these in 6 hours LOL)

Nice 8 string though, David supplied the Grover Keys and Stringmaster pickup; it was one of the last LS Tomohawk lap steel blanks I had -great sounding guitar.

Short scale with Bronze nut and bridge, string through design.

(btw - Tomohawk is spelled right, it is how we copyrighted it in the old days.)

Melobro

Someone to Build Melobros Again
This really is too cool an instrument (see models page) to sit in my back shop not being built and since it looks like Melobar has landed back on me I need to see if there is anyone with a heart and desire to take it the next step.

I have the molds but it is going to take a very special builder who knows instruments with a lot of patience to work on them. I'm not looking to sell or make a bunch of money out of it but I want it to continue and be handled correctly.

I am very busy with life right now but if you know someone interested; email a resume of what they can do and their level of  interest to me at tedasmith001@gmail.com if I don't reply right away then I'm on the road.

Melobar Family Steve (Sherm) Smith - son #3 passes away

Steven (Sherm) Smith pictured in tie on the left at Atlanta NAMM in the late '80s

passed away Wednesday from a battle with Brain Cancer at 62 years old.

He was involved in Melobar through the '70s on the Rosac models and the Acoustic Metal and Wood models. He was a great brother, great man and the world is a little lonelier without him.

Time to build

Here comes the fall - time to start working on the Steelgitr - actually changing the name to something like Mel-o-Tar for Melobar crossed with a Guitar. Partially because the new model is a true hybred using the existing Telecastor and modifying the bottom to a Melobar Skreemr

This is the working proto-type that got caught in the Hardway heat and smoke damage. Already have the Tele - just need the bottom part and like the old man...grab the saw and go crazy

Melobar Trade Mark

MELOBAR back in the family again!
Well - I guess I'm back into the frying pan. It's now official; I own the Melobar trademark again. I just couldn't let it get stolen like Peavey stole the Powerslide name. So I filed and here is the confirmation:
Order 22506. Your trademark application for MELOBAR -Word mark is now filed. Attached, please find the official government filing receipt for your trademark.
My wife is going to kill me...

Can't help it - have to build these

I have been working on a way to be able to build these again and it looks like we are going to get started.

Here is an email I just released to players that have been asking about it:

The stock model Steelgitr (changing the name to Melotar with these new ones I'll build) will have a inexpensive Fender Tele (complete, we buy the guitar retail with a receipt so we can legally resell it,  we just take it apart, work the upper part of the body over to fit the bottom and put it back together, it has been reshaped on the back to better fit the player and reduce the weight and paint the body with the new bottom - finished the entire guitar weighs less than a Les Paul) stock model will have a 6 - string bottom Melobar neck with Rattler components for $995. Case is extra and the choice is the Roadrunner gig bag or ATA keyboard case.

An 8-string on the bottom neck would be a custom and would cost more for the pickup and set up so depending on what pickup you wanted on the bottom (I'd probably go with Lollar for a D8 sound) you would add $450.

If you want a higher end upper neck Fender or something else you can purchase it and send it to us - it's about $785 to build with the client supplying the standard guitar portion.

This double neck design is my real passion and what is driving me to get back into building. It puts the Melobar lower neck in the right position and it's just an amazing guitar to get on stage with - people just go nuts when you strap it on. Of the first five Steelgitrs we built - 3 went on stage the day the players got them. That says a lot to how easy and friendly they are to adjust to and play. They just fit you and work.