Daniel Rippee:  

CLASS OF 1969
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Orchard Intermediate SchoolClass of 1969
Arroyo grande, CA

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This is the Marshall Tucker Band playing at the Alameda county fair circa 2013! Tom is playing the steel guitar! Tom also is an accomplished guitar player! He has played for numerous bands and has worked as a studio musicia
In 2012 Tom contacted me through a mutial friend to craft a custom telecaster! A beautiful butterscotch tele with a one piece maple neck! With a Bigsby vibrato and tv jones pickups!
Tom arranged for us to meet at the fair one summers night , as he was excited to see his custom guitar in progress!! I got a free pass to the event and saw the band that we all love, and it was so cool to hear songs that I
Here's a recent pick of a D-45 custom Rippee guitar! The first custom acoustic guitar I crafted back in the late 1970's! I wanted to hit a home run with my first guitar. And it really exceeded my expectations! She has a cho
I think that the custom torch stock on the head stock really sets the guitar apart! Also I really worked hard on the finger board inlays! My goal was to take my all time favorite acoustic guitar and duplicate it just as clo
The back of my 45 is a little different as I flattened the typical diamond that CF Martin leaves on theirs! But I had to have gold plated grovers on her!!!
I also made a wider than normal back strip with a top pearl kit on the back as well making what I considered a more elaborate 45 than Martin did!! And this is how my mind set was back then, I wanted to craft guitars better
Any way my hand inlay's are just as good today, I'd like to think even better!! Over the next few weeks I am going to post more of my work for you guys Acoustics and electric's for you all. A get to know me and the body of
Here's a super cool story of one of the restorations I've done! When I lived at Pismo Beach in the 80's a good friend of mine gave me a real basket case of a 1967 Hallmark guitar!!! In a jillion pieces! About 20 years late
There's a rich history that comes from Bakersfield. And starts with Semie Mosley! The guy who made Hallmark guitars worked for Semie at Mosrite! Hallmark made maybe 50 of these cool surf guitars in 66 / 67! Check out the el
Check this out.... these are American made hand wound pickups...remember I told you about Semie these are his design oh yah and they sound increadible, yep they still work!!!!
I lovingly cleaned all the electronics, but the guy who gave me this guitar had stripped the body finish off so in order to restore it I finished it with a goldtop finish! My intent was not to do a origional but this was fo
Get a real view of Americana guitar craftsmanship!!!! You will never see a beauty like this as there might be seven or eight of these left alive in the world remember 1967 and all the hippie flower power and are you going
And this friends is the real surf guitar!! And the pickups sound proove it!! There is so much about it that screams Semie, the neck is super thin like a Moserite, with a zero fret nut!!! The tuners are 3 + 3 Kluson 1967 cir
The zero fret I told you about, and just look at the head stock just reaking of the modern Hillbilly Semie style that came from Bakersfield California!!!! I know I'm sorta going off but lots of people don't know!!!!
This is the eveloution of American guitars from an era long gone!! Aren't these tuners insane!!!!! Just look at the way they are positioned on a arc!!!! Only Semie would have dared to go this crazy!!!! I guess I should tell
I'll close with this today! I will tell you guys that I found a origonal whammy bar for this guitar for an extorted price from a Shadey guy!!! But I'm glad to have bought it to complete this very collectable guitar for my c
So this is the burl / mahogany body.....just an insane beautiful wood!!
Here's that increadible headstock!
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