Chris Larkin Custom Guitars
Electric Guitars
A small selection of electric guitars which shows how some customers have adapted standard designs to suit them while others have gone the full custom route.
Blueburst Figured Maple Superstrat. I like making Superstrats. I don't have the inclination or the skills to play one the way it should be played but I like making them!This one has a body core of swamp ash, which is a lightweight and resonant tonewood, topped with some beautiful figured…
Geert's 7 string ASAD Custom  with MIDI. Geert and I go back many years to the time we met at a show in Rotterdam where I was on a stand with my Benelux distributors and he was demonstrating for Randall amps and a maker of pointy guitars! We became friends…
Seven String Baritone with Trem! Now this is an unsual one. It might even be a first. Seven string guitars are not so common. Seven string baritone guitars even less so. And this is the first seven string baritone guitar I have ever heard of witha locking trem! How did…
Tim wanted a guitar with a familiar shape and with familiar features but he also wanted more. He wanted a chambered body so the dense sapele core is sigificantly hollowed out. He wanted a one piece figured maple top rather than the usual two pieces bookmatched. More than that he…
David took the idea of the ASAD and adjusted it to suit his needs. What has he done? The scale length is 25" with 22 frets, the trem is the non locking Schaller Vintage (which mounts on two studs and knife edges with roller saddles), the controls have been moved…
Pretty or what? A thin bookmatched overlay of Rio rosewood onto a quartersawn Irish sycamore body (with a bit of figure too). The contrast of the dark heartwood and the cream sapwood (blending into the cream of the sycamore around the edge) makes for dramatic looks. Pickups are Seymour Duncan…
Klaus-Peter ordered this ASAD 2HB Custom in flamed maple finished in CLC Blue. The neck is a laminate of mahogany and flamed maple and the rosewood fingerboard has a single red star inlaid on the 12th fret as the only marker. The Schaller LoPro trem sits close to the body…
This is a 1986 Razer guitar, a model that was discontinued a short while after this date. The highly sculpted top is padauk which has changed colour from the the original vivid red to a rich brown. Lovely Brazillian mahogany for the body and the neck (hard to find that…
Robin's ASAP Solid 12 string. Robin has an ASAP Solid six string with MIDI that he uses as his main onstage guitar but he wanted a 12 for certain numbers. Finished in dramatic gloss black (a bugger to photograph!) the body is alder (hollowed out to keep the weight down)…
Robin's ASAP Solid Steel with MIDI. Robin has a one man stage show where he needs the look and sound of an acoustic guitar at high volumes. The ASAP Solid Steel fits the bill for this as the design resists feedback well and the face shape is the same dimensions…
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Castlegregory
County Kerry, Ireland

Email: chris@chrislarkinguitars.com
Landline: +353 66 7139330 international
066 7139330 in Ireland.
Mobile: +353 86 1712331 international
086 1712331 in Ireland.
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