Paul Stevens Guitars Gallery

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This gallery contains pictures of custom guitars handmade by Paul in his Eastbourne workshop and some guitar repairs.

S&J Bass This is an updated version of my SJ bass with a sculpted heel for better access and more comfortable neck. The inlays are Green River Agate. Roasted Maple neck & fingerboard. Swamp Ash body with Amber tinted AC finish	El Jefe El Hefe has a Roasted Maple neck with Rosewood fingerboard. Stainless Steel Frets and Silver inlay.
El Jefe El Jefe is a mashup between a Tele and Jaguar. The offset Swamp Ash body is finished in Transparent blue with Ocean blue sparkles. The electronics are very similar to a Jaguar but with a variable tone selector and an extra switch.	Osito The Osito had a Cedrella body and a Padouk/Wenge neck with Ebony fingerboard and a bunch of Abalone inlays. The selector switch is really a kill switch.
Osito Osito headstock with Hipshot tuners and Schaller locking nut.	Drewman DJ Body The hollow aluminium body has loads of space so i filled it up with a built in wah as a tone control.
Drewman DJ Body Drewman DJ body paired with a Roasted Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard. The profile of this neck is asymetric.	Bethany A V style guitar with a Korina body, Kahler Trem and humbucker sized P90's.
Bethany Headstock Bethany was designed with a headstock similar to the older V headstock. Under the Pink Gold waterbourne finish the neck is made of Padouk.	El Lacitera Colossus One piece figured Ash body. Wenge and Flame Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard. Stainless Steel frets and Argentium Silver Inlay. Seymour Duncan pickups. East UK preamp. Hipshot Hardware.
El Lacitera Colossus The two powerful Seymour Duncan pickups, one ceramic, one Alnico feed into an extremely versatile preamp giving more tonal variations than you can point a stick at.	El Lacitera Mahogany body with Flame Maple cap. Wenge and Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard and dragon inlay. Hipshot hardware. Bare Knuckle Jugganaut pickups, silent coil tap switching and hot switch.
El Lacitera In 2015 the Blood Lizard design based on an RG morphed into El Lacitera. Mahogany body with Quilted Maple cap. Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard and lizard inlay. Hipshot hardware. Bare Knuckle Jugganaut pickups, silent coil tap switching and hot switch.	Offset TeleJagStang I put this one together for a customer, it came to me as a finished body and a bunch of parts. I built a neck from Padouk with a Rosewood fingerboard. The bridge and trem are from The Mastery. The pickups are a Fender set.
SJ Bass SJ bass. Fretted bass has Swamp Ash Black Nitro body, Maple neck/fingerboard. Hipshot hardware. DiMarzio Ultra Jazz pickups and East UK J-retro Deluxe Pre-amp.	Oso Rojo L/H Single piece Honduran Mahogany neck and body. Figured Ebony fingerboard with Silver twelfth fret marker. Bare Knuckle Riff Raff pickups. Graphtech Resomax wraparound bridge.
SJ Bass Fretless Fretless bass using a Jazz as a starting point. Swamp Ash body in Olympic white nitro, Maple neck, Ebony fingerboard, Hipshot hardware, Sadowski Pickups and Pre-amp.	PRS McCarty This PRS came to me with a lovely tobacco sunburst. My customer just didn't get on with the guitar, he wanted to love it but felt it wasn't living up to it's full potential. Convinced the thick finish was deadening it's sonic abilities he persuaded me to strip it off and give it a thin oil finish, it also had a fretstone and the fingerboard corners rounding off. It was it's last chance to prove itself and it did.
El Lacitera 7FF 7 String multiscale version of the El Lacitera. 25.5" to 27.8" scale lengths. Swamp Ash body with black stain and oil finish. Wenge and Maple Neck with Padouk fingerboard. Hipshot Machineheads, custom bridge. Just a Vol.	Redwood/Victorian Pine Tele This Thinline Tele has a body made from Curly Redwood and Victorian Pine. It has a Fender Wide Range neck pickup and a Bare Knuckle Yardbird bridge pickup.
Stingbacker A Rickenbacker styled bass with Stingray active electronics and a Jazz neck profile.	Victorian Pine Tele Birds Eye Maple headstock from the Victorian Pine Tele
Victorian Pine Tele This Tele style guitar is made from 150 year old Pine reclaimed from a roof in Lewisham, London	Jazz Deluxe Made from Fender Deluxe neck, hardware and electrics. I just built the body from Swamp Ash.
Oso Rojo DC LP DC style guitar. Blood Red Nitro Curly Maple Cap, Old 'N heavy Mahogany body, three piece Old Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard, Abalone inlays, Gibson hardware and Classic '57 pickups.	Black Widow Eight Three piece Maple neck, Mahogany wings, Ebony facings and fingerboard. Silver Inlay. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Warpig pickup.
Blood Lizard The Blood Lizard is pretty much an RG body shape in Mahogany with an English Walnut cap. The neck is three piece semi Birdseye Maple with Ebony fingerboard. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Pickups. Tru-oil finish.	Mini Jack Just having a bit of fun with this one. Tiny church pew Mahogany body, reclaimed Jackson neck, Gibson pickups, Schaller tuners and a built in Marshall Jackhammer effect.
MP Parlour size acoustic. Mahogany back and sides with Cedar Soundboard. Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard. Abalone inlays and Ebony binding. Ebony bridge. Schaller tuners.	Black Widow Eight Three piece Maple neck, Mahogany wings, Ebony facings and fingerboard. Silver Inlay. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Warpig pickup.
Green River Turtle OM style acoustic. English Walnut back and sides, Bear Claw Sitka Spruce top, Rosewood binding. Thee piece old Mahogany neck with Spanish heel, Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Grover Sta-tite tuners. Green River Agate inlay.	JR DC Mahogany body Jr double cut, Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard and headstock veneer. Melamine finish. Gibson hardware and Seymour Duncan P90's.
Classical Maple back and sides, Spruce top, Cedar neck, Rosewood fingerboard.	El Aguila El Aguila Strat style guitar. Alder body in Olympic White Nitro, Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard, Maple inlay. Hipshot hardware. Bare Knuckle Pickups Slow Hand set. As the workshop tester guitar this one is currently sporting a booster circuit.
Oso Rojo DC LP DC style guitar. Blood Red Nitro Curly Maple Cap, Old 'N heavy Mahogany body, three piece Old Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard, Abalone inlays, Gibson hardware and Classic '57 pickups.	D-Bass A customers own p-bass body gets the full treatment with a new neck (Maple with Ebony board), upgraded tuners and bridge (Hipshot), DiMarzio Ultra Jazz pickups, East UK Pre-amp and a Walnut on black scratchplate.
El Aguila Another Alder bodied beauty in Olympic White Nitro.Maple and Ebony neck. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Pickups '63 set.	Walnut Leaf Mahogany body with Walnut top, Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard. Bare Knuckle Pickups. Abalone inlay.
Jele Offset church pew Mahogany body with Maple cap. Salvaged Jackson neck. Schaller hardware. Gibson bridge pickup, Seymour Duncan neck pickup.	Turtle Heron OM body shape with Indian Rosewood back and sides, Cedar top, three piece Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Abalone inlays and Mahogany binding.
Tele Repair Tele with a big hole gets repaired.	Firebird Neck Repair Neck Repair.
Tele Bass Repair Tele bass restoration albeit finished in Pearlescent White.

GALLERY

S&J Bass

This is an updated version of my SJ bass with a sculpted heel for better access and more comfortable neck. The inlays are Green River Agate. Roasted Maple neck & fingerboard. Swamp Ash body with Amber tinted AC finish

El Jefe

El Hefe has a Roasted Maple neck with Rosewood fingerboard. Stainless Steel Frets and Silver inlay.

El Jefe

El Jefe is a mashup between a Tele and Jaguar. The offset Swamp Ash body is finished in Transparent blue with Ocean blue sparkles. The electronics are very similar to a Jaguar but with a variable tone selector and an extra switch.

Osito

The Osito had a Cedrella body and a Padouk/Wenge neck with Ebony fingerboard and a bunch of Abalone inlays. The selector switch is really a kill switch.

Osito

Osito headstock with Hipshot tuners and Schaller locking nut.

Drewman DJ Body

The hollow aluminium body has loads of space so i filled it up with a built in wah as a tone control.

Drewman DJ Body

Drewman DJ body paired with a Roasted Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard. The profile of this neck is asymetric.

Bethany

A V style guitar with a Korina body, Kahler Trem and humbucker sized P90's.

Bethany Headstock

Bethany was designed with a headstock similar to the older V headstock. Under the Pink Gold waterbourne finish the neck is made of Padouk.

El Lacitera Colossus

One piece figured Ash body. Wenge and Flame Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard. Stainless Steel frets and Argentium Silver Inlay. Seymour Duncan pickups. East UK preamp. Hipshot Hardware.

El Lacitera Colossus

The two powerful Seymour Duncan pickups, one ceramic, one Alnico feed into an extremely versatile preamp giving more tonal variations than you can point a stick at.

El Lacitera

Mahogany body with Flame Maple cap. Wenge and Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard and dragon inlay. Hipshot hardware. Bare Knuckle Jugganaut pickups, silent coil tap switching and hot switch.

El Lacitera

In 2015 the Blood Lizard design based on an RG morphed into El Lacitera. Mahogany body with Quilted Maple cap. Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard and lizard inlay. Hipshot hardware. Bare Knuckle Jugganaut pickups, silent coil tap switching and hot switch.

Offset TeleJagStang

I put this one together for a customer, it came to me as a finished body and a bunch of parts. I built a neck from Padouk with a Rosewood fingerboard. The bridge and trem are from The Mastery. The pickups are a Fender set.

SJ Bass

SJ bass. Fretted bass has Swamp Ash Black Nitro body, Maple neck/fingerboard. Hipshot hardware. DiMarzio Ultra Jazz pickups and East UK J-retro Deluxe Pre-amp.

Oso Rojo L/H

Single piece Honduran Mahogany neck and body. Figured Ebony fingerboard with Silver twelfth fret marker. Bare Knuckle Riff Raff pickups. Graphtech Resomax wraparound bridge.

SJ Bass Fretless

Fretless bass using a Jazz as a starting point. Swamp Ash body in Olympic white nitro, Maple neck, Ebony fingerboard, Hipshot hardware, Sadowski Pickups and Pre-amp.

PRS McCarty

El Lacitera 7FF

7 String multiscale version of the El Lacitera. 25.5" to 27.8" scale lengths. Swamp Ash body with black stain and oil finish. Wenge and Maple Neck with Padouk fingerboard. Hipshot Machineheads, custom bridge. Just a Vol.

Redwood/Victorian Pine Tele

This Thinline Tele has a body made from Curly Redwood and Victorian Pine. It has a Fender Wide Range neck pickup and a Bare Knuckle Yardbird bridge pickup.

Stingbacker

A Rickenbacker styled bass with Stingray active electronics and a Jazz neck profile.

Victorian Pine Tele

Birds Eye Maple headstock from the Victorian Pine Tele

Victorian Pine Tele

This Tele style guitar is made from 150 year old Pine reclaimed from a roof in Lewisham, London

Jazz Deluxe

Made from Fender Deluxe neck, hardware and electrics. I just built the body from Swamp Ash.

Oso Rojo DC

LP DC style guitar. Blood Red Nitro Curly Maple Cap, Old 'N heavy Mahogany body, three piece Old Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard, Abalone inlays, Gibson hardware and Classic '57 pickups.

Black Widow Eight

Three piece Maple neck, Mahogany wings, Ebony facings and fingerboard. Silver Inlay. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Warpig pickup.

Blood Lizard

The Blood Lizard is pretty much an RG body shape in Mahogany with an English Walnut cap. The neck is three piece semi Birdseye Maple with Ebony fingerboard. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Pickups. Tru-oil finish.

Mini Jack

Just having a bit of fun with this one. Tiny church pew Mahogany body, reclaimed Jackson neck, Gibson pickups, Schaller tuners and a built in Marshall Jackhammer effect.

MP

Parlour size acoustic. Mahogany back and sides with Cedar Soundboard. Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard. Abalone inlays and Ebony binding. Ebony bridge. Schaller tuners.

Black Widow Eight

Three piece Maple neck, Mahogany wings, Ebony facings and fingerboard. Silver Inlay. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Warpig pickup.

Green River Turtle

OM style acoustic. English Walnut back and sides, Bear Claw Sitka Spruce top, Rosewood binding. Thee piece old Mahogany neck with Spanish heel, Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Grover Sta-tite tuners. Green River Agate inlay.

JR DC

Mahogany body Jr double cut, Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard and headstock veneer. Melamine finish. Gibson hardware and Seymour Duncan P90's.

Classical

Maple back and sides, Spruce top, Cedar neck, Rosewood fingerboard.

El Aguila

El Aguila Strat style guitar. Alder body in Olympic White Nitro, Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard, Maple inlay. Hipshot hardware. Bare Knuckle Pickups Slow Hand set. As the workshop tester guitar this one is currently sporting a booster circuit.

Oso Rojo DC

LP DC style guitar. Blood Red Nitro Curly Maple Cap, Old 'N heavy Mahogany body, three piece Old Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard, Abalone inlays, Gibson hardware and Classic '57 pickups.

D-Bass

A customers own p-bass body gets the full treatment with a new neck (Maple with Ebony board), upgraded tuners and bridge (Hipshot), DiMarzio Ultra Jazz pickups, East UK Pre-amp and a Walnut on black scratchplate.

El Aguila

Another Alder bodied beauty in Olympic White Nitro.Maple and Ebony neck. Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckle Pickups '63 set.

Walnut Leaf

Mahogany body with Walnut top, Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard. Bare Knuckle Pickups. Abalone inlay.

Jele

Offset church pew Mahogany body with Maple cap. Salvaged Jackson neck. Schaller hardware. Gibson bridge pickup, Seymour Duncan neck pickup.

Turtle Heron

OM body shape with Indian Rosewood back and sides, Cedar top, three piece Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Abalone inlays and Mahogany binding.