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In celebration of Geauga County's 2006 Bicentennial, Geauga Council for Arts & Culture and the Geauga Park District are proud to introduce InfiniTree Geauga. The project is intended to show the infinite value of a single tree and to highlight the sugar maple's lasting effect on the county. The tree chosen was donated by Geauga County Historical Society and removed from the sugarbush at Century Village Museum in Burton. The "InfiniTree" is believed to be almost as old as our county and was chosen due to the danger of windfall (it was leaning to one side) and partial decay in the crown of the tree, as well as it's decline in sugar production. With over 80 artists developing works of arts from this tree, Roadhouse Music is proud to have taken part in this program, and offer an amazing sounding and playing guitar as a donation to the Geauga County Park District and The Geauga County Historical Society. This guitar is one of a kind, and will certainly make one musician and/or collector a unique treasure. It is up for sale until June 30th, at which time if it is not purchased, it will go up for auction. The guitar is on display at The West Woods, 9465 Kinsman Road (Route 87), Newbury township, Ohio. It will remain on display until June 30th, 2006. This guitar has been featured in The Cleveland Plain Dealer (4/10/06 Edition, front page and arts and culture section), The News-Herald (4/5/06 Edition), and The Geauga County Maple Leaf (4/13/06 Edition). Below are some pictures, and details of what this custom guitar has to offer, how it was built, and what components it was made from. Click on the thumbnails below for a larger picture.
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| At first just a big slab of
Maple. Planed to 1.75" thick. First a pencil outline of
the custom shape, then the first rough cut. |
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| Like a puzzle piece eh? A lot of hand sanding to get the swirl marks of the sides. Beautiful grain. Burn marks on the back from the planer. Ready to route out for the neck. | 
 
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| Neck join routed, Checking proper fit. Routed sides, rounded for comfort. Beautiful grained top. Detail of neck joint cleaned up after routing. | 
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| Beveled on lower left bout for strumming relief. Detail of back grain of wood. First look at custom craved headstock on the neck. Routing for dual humbucker pickups. | 
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| First mock set up of pickups, bridge, and controls. Routing the control cavity, what a mess! Some custom mixed stain to bring out the grain. | 
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| 8 coats of lacquer for protection. Installing the machine heads (tuners). Installing copper tape (fully shielding the control cavity). Installing the pickups, and custom wiring. | 
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| Fully playing! In case with all packaging from parts used. Details of finished guitar. | 
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| Signed, Dated, Delivered. |  |
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| PARTS LIST:
Over $1000.00 retail (parts only). Labor Time nearly 100 hours. |
Fender Licensed Neck, Solid
Maple, 22 Jumbo Frets, 12” Radius
Grover Mini Locking Rotomatic Machine Heads, 18:1 Ratio Fender American Series String Guides (Pair) Graph Tech Tusq, Man Made Ivory Nut, Hand Fit and Finished D’addario XL120 Guitar Strings .009-.042 Levy’s Leather Guitar Strap Double Stitch Black Schaller Security Lock, Strap Lock System, Nickel Switchcraft ¼” Barrel Input Jack Leo Quan Badass Guitar Bridge with Fine Tuners Leo Quan Bridge Inserts (Pair) .047 Mf Tone Capacitor Misc. Wiring / Solder / Screws / Pickguard Material Copper Shielding Tape USA Made, 12 Pole, 3 Position Toggle Switch USA Made, 500k, Solid Shaft Potentiometers (2 ea) Fender Neck Plate Fender Neck Plate Screws (set of 4) USA Made Solid Steel Chrome Plated Humbucker Ring Set Fender Chrome Telecaster Knobs (Pair) Deluxe Foam Core Electric Guitar Case Fender Tex-Mex Strat Humbucking Pickup (Bridge Position) DiMarzio Bluesbucker Humbucking Pickup (Neck Position) Genesis Guitar Stand |
