I built these four guitars over the course of the past year to raise money for the charity Help Auckland https://www.helpauckland.org.nz/ they will be going on sale on the 22nd of April, if you live in New Zealand and are interested in buying one there are more details on my instagram   / davidbrynparker  

If you can’t buy a guitar I’d appreciate you considering making a donation to Help at https://dosomethinghelpful.org.nz/dav...

These guitars are inspired by the look of a Fender Jazzmaster or Jaguar but with a few tweaks of my own. The body shape has been completely re-drawn to be less pointy, more curvy and is ever so slightly smaller all over. The headstock again is Fender inspired with my own tweaks, notably a headstock-adjust truss rod.

Each of the guitars is finished differently with different pickguard material and knobs etc. Two of the guitar bodies were built with Korina and painted black and white, the walnut body I left clear and then I had sourced a pretty amazing looking piece of alder which my sister painted with NZ native birds and plants.

The bolt on maple necks are reinforced with 2 carbon fibre rods for amazing strength and stability. The neck shape is profiled to be ever so slightly thinner than a vintage fender neck but still super comfortable. The Indian Rosewood fingerboard has a radius of 12” and a 24.562” (Gibson) scale length, which makes stretching for notes and bending a breeze.

The pickups are Wilde L90’s designed by Bill Lawrence in 1976. In my opinion they sound somewhere between a humbucker and a single coil. The neck has super lush warm low end, but with plenty of treble to cut through in the mix. The bridge has that midrange punch without sounding too aggressive.

The pickups are wired into a Switchcraft 3 way switch and a single volume and tone control using CTS pots. All of the control and pickup cavities are shielded with copper shielding tape.

The guitars are fitted with high quality Gotoh hardware all around.

If you want to see more of what I'm working on at the moment follow my instagram www.instagram.com/davidbrynparker