Thursday, November 20, 2008

APR Guitars - Icon Flames

Posted by Jon in • Cool Guitars,

APR guitars Icon Flames
I received an email the other day from a someone who left a comment on my YouTube channel who goes by the YouTube username of guitarman53jc, John, like me has played guitar for years but has had a renewed interest over the past couple of years and his YouTube channel has helped bring back the passion. Anyway the reason John contacted me was to tell me about his Custom green APR guitar you see above nicknamed “Envy” which was made by one of his good friends UK custom guitar builder Paul Richardson. Paul took a few years out from building guitars but is in the process of launching a new company which I will follow up with more details soon. In the meantime let me introduce you to the Icon Flames.

This guitar body is constructed with a Mahogany body with quilted Maple top with a beautiful Emerald finish. The neck of this guitar is somewhat of a feature with custom Flame Abalone inlays which run the entire length of the Ivaroid bound Ebony fingerboard which is set on a Birds Eye Maple neck. The bridge on this guitar is a special 10th anniversary Gotoh “Floyd Rose” Tremelo which are complimented nicely with gold Schaller machine heads and the pickups are a PAF Humbucker in the neck and a “Rocker” in the bridge position by Kent Armstrong which you can find on WDMusic.com who are the exclusive distributors of Kent Armstrong pickups in the US.

If you would like to see this guitar in action check this video of John playing his beloved APR Icon Flames guitar on YouTube.

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Ava on 11/20 at 10:05 PM

This guitar is so cool! Where can I find my own custom guitar builder or get one like this? Please update on Paul Richardson’s info soon!

Ava (http:www.jemsite.com/blog)

Jon on 11/21 at 08:04 AM

Hi Ava, I will post a press release as soon as his new company site is up and running! Also I believe his guitars are going to be reviewed in one of the guitar mags soon, I can’t find the email that says which one but I’ll be sure to post that info too smile

Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com on 11/21 at 07:41 PM

I usually don’t fall for the strange looking guitars, but that one is really nice. Very interesting, I would like to play one. The golden hardware goes great with the green.

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