If some of these colors look like hot rod paint, it’s because they are. I designed two finish styles: one featuring solid, classic auto-inspired colors and the other with select figured maple and transparent bursts.
I love the electric guitar. I’ve owned, played and worked on many of the great ones. I didn’t see a need to recreate those. I wanted something that shared in the inspirations of past makers but was created for tomorrow’s player. It meant creating a fresh design from the ground up based on decades of work and study.
Andy Powers, Founder
The A-Type™ Features
The shape
NECK feel
GUITAR pickups
Two custom tailpieces
“I love the tactile expression of a vibrato but have never liked the way the strings aren’t in sync as the pitch changes. I engineered a ‘camshaft’ tailpiece (‘CamTail’) with string ramps compensated for tension and gauge so the strings move in pitch relative to each other. For a player preferring a fixed-pitch setup, I designed a toploader hardtail that locks in your sound and makes string changes a snap.”