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This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor h...
07/18/2026

This Healer is for our friend Steve M. Who’s been a repair client for a long time and most recently a business advisor here. When we started up this commission I really loved how he basically had the whole idea for it ready to go. A burst that never goes fully opaque, roasted woods, natural head cap, Tele bridge pickup paired with 2 Strat pickups and a push/pull pot to engage the neck and bridge. Chopped tele bridge, string through the body, combine the things he loves about a Strat and a Tele. Tortoise guard, neck shaped like his favorite guitar. Done.

What else is there? Chambered Alder body, roasted maple neck with mineral stains that we love, quarter sawn roasted maple head cap, Indian rosewood fretboard, 95x47 fret wire, bone nut, Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners, 11-49 D’Addario Strings, VIP 280k pots, Forney electrosocket, Lollar pickups. 24 screws or so. Nitrocellulose lacquer. I’ve been doing this thing on the back of the neck which is fun too. You spray 3-4 coats of 60/40 Nitro/Thinner as a sealer, sand it level with a 320-400 grit pad and then apply 1-3 coats of TrueOil as needed. You want very little oil on the pad/towel, it’s more like a French polish style thing. Give it a go!

Thanks Steve!

These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and ...
07/12/2026

These two Healers really came about because of a photograph in the book Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fireglo that came out in 2021. I started flipping through and quickly came upon a photo of a 1961 4000 series Natural bass that just floored me. The all maple body and neck just seemed to pop more with the addition of the gold lucite pick guard instead of the now standard white acrylic. On the next page was the Fireglo with the gold guard, and more on the following pages, gold guards everywhere. The first guitar I bought for myself after graduating high school was a Rickenbacker 330, so the maple thing was always lurking somewhere in my brain. But the gold just started creeping into my world after this book.

In 2025 I was planning some guitars for Wood Wire Volts and I knew I had time to work out the all maple Natural one. Nearly all of our guitars are chambered, and these are no exception. Even chambered we’re still looking at a fairly standard solid body weight all said and done, around 8-8.75 lbs. I’d say they perform like a solid body, with some little extra kick unplugged, much like a Ric 330, especially with the and bridge. 

The icing on the cake for me were the Higher Gain pickups. Rob Banta has made us some of the coolest pickups over the years, but these are next level. So clear, so full, super loud. They really push an amp into break-up like a humbucker cuz they’re HOT single coils with some secret Space Viking magic inside. 

As for the Sunburst, I knew it had to have binding and wanted to hear the contrast of maple with a string through bridge. I wasn’t quite brave enough to do the checker binding but the cream edge gives enough contrast to achieve what I was after. The tone is super solid and has great sustain with the chopped tele bridge.

Head over to to try give these a go!

“Off the Gun” thin nitrocellulose glass finish
Kluson Deluxe Safe-T-Post tuners85-.94” Birdseye Maple necks
Dark Indian rosewood Fretboards, 9.5” R 
1.625” Nut width
Dual Capacitor selection on the tone pot, Up .033, Down .01

 

So it turns out we haven’t been receiving any emails from our website contact form for a couple of months. For the time ...
05/23/2026

So it turns out we haven’t been receiving any emails from our website contact form for a couple of months. For the time being please email direct to trevor(at)healyguitars(dot)com and we’ll get right back to you. Our apologies to anyone whose messages went unanswered! Once we have things rectified it’ll be business as usual.

We do a ton of repair work and it’s actually been a light workload lately so I have no doubt this snafu has been the culprit. We operate by appointment only and there’s a link on the website and here on IG that brings you directly to the scheduling page for drop offs or consultations.

Look out for our next post on a special 15th anniversary deal we’ll be running on most repairs for the month of June. Thanks!

This Healer was made for our friend Ben D. in 2023. Ben is mainly an acoustic guitar player and his only requests were t...
05/15/2026

This Healer was made for our friend Ben D. in 2023. Ben is mainly an acoustic guitar player and his only requests were that there were no fretboard dots and that the neck was more like a vintage tele. We’d recently acquired a nice piece of Brazilian rosewood from a local furniture restoration shop and it fit the bill nicely for this fretboard and head cap. It’s a lovely dark brown with hints of orange in the right light. 

I kept the sunburst in that mystery realm of brownish red, a lot like the warmer hues of fall foliage, and a narrow band with the end grain still visible. The top is reclaimed Douglas Fir from a beam that once lived at Mass MoCA, formerly the Sprague Electric Company, in North Adams, MA. With super straight grain it would be at home with Ben’s acoustic guitar tops. The original site of 87 Marshall St. in North Adams housed a print shop in 1860, so we’re talking about some very old which was likely several hundred years old when cut over 100 years ago.

The body core is Roasted Pine, chambered to give it a little more volume and attack when played unplugged. The neck is rift sawn Roasted Maple with some cool dark lines as well and a bit of flame.

The pick guard is cream acrylic and the bridge is a Rutters chopped tele style string through. Forney brass string ferrules and electro socket jack cup and Kluson safe-T post tuners. 95 x 47 Jescar fretwire, 1 5/8” nut width, 10” radius. Satin water based finish Emtech 6000. 

The pickups A90’s are made by Ohad of . We tumbled the pickup rings (and the rest of the hardware) before assembling them. 42 gauge plain enamel wire and Alnico 5 Magnets. They are very lively and dynamic single coils. We originally found this silver mesh upstairs in legendary free piles of hallways where our shop is located. Every now and again someone will move out and leave the most amazing boxes of treasure. 

Thanks for the order Ben!

03/28/2026

We had an awesome surprise visit from who wanted to try her 5 string violin through our new gain pedal. Things really start to hit about 30 seconds in. The chords sound absolutely incredible! We also had the distinct pleasure of handing her a Healer, the first electric guitar she’d ever played :). Many thanks to Will for stopping by and introducing us to Sophie before their show at the Iron Horse last night. Make sure to follow both of them to see more awesome playing and instrument work. The pedal is called the Receiver, made with our friend Ryan and we’ll talk more about it soon.

Here’s the Growler that I made before Open Studio’s back in November. I’ve had a board of Spalted Red Maple around for a...
03/04/2026

Here’s the Growler that I made before Open Studio’s back in November. I’ve had a board of Spalted Red Maple around for a few years and was patiently waiting for it to air dry. I picked a few of the best sections to make the neck and top and got right into re-sawing it for what turned out to be a pretty stellar bookmatched top. The neck has the straightest grain of the entire 9ft board.

Growler necks now have a scarf joint that starts under the transition to the neck and extends nearly half way through the length of the headstock. You can see it a little more clearly with this maple more than in mahogany. This layout avoids the hard line you can sometimes see in a traditional scarf joint, giving the back of the headstock a more unified, clean look in my opinion. The longer joint and increased material under the nut should also allow for a stronger headstock.

The Safe-T Post Kluson Deluxe tuners increase the break angle of the strings over the nut as well, which compensates for the lower headstock angle. I used Macassar Ebony for the fretboard and head cap with Mother of Pearl inlays. The body is chambered Mahogany with ivoroid binding around the top. This is the most transparent burst I’ve pulled off to date, drawing inspiration from vintage Kay’s and Silvertone’s. The dark tortoise guard, pickup rings, and backplates contrast nicely with all the parts.

25.5” scale, 10” radius fretboard, 1.625” nut, 104 x 47 Jescar fretwire. 550k pots, Lollartron’s (best humbucker ever?) Black teacup k***s play off the black lines of the salting. Mojave wraparound with 1” threaded bushings. Thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer, open pore style.

This one went home with my friend and long time client a few days after the event. Matt had a 2018 Growler for a while that now lives with Luke from and I’m glad he found this one. He’s been making a new record with it down at too.

I built this Growler for the in LA and sold it here at the shop a few days after it arrived back home. As much as I wou...
02/24/2026

I built this Growler for the in LA and sold it here at the shop a few days after it arrived back home. As much as I would have liked it to sell there, I’m thankful to my client Thom who recognized that this was the one for him and called me 20 minutes after he left the shop.

When I started picking a color for this one we’d just had a 1950’s Gretsch in the shop and it had an amazing forest green metallic and a gold guard. Turns out I didn’t have the right paint around but I had Antique Pelham Blue which mimics the aging of an aged Pelham nicely. Added a few drops of the green that I did have and here we are. Topped off with a gold backed acrylic pick guard too. With the addition of some T90’s I got to what I was looking for and they’re some of the loudest, fullest single coils I’ve ever heard.

Here’s the specs:
Chambered Mahogany body
Pine Top
Mahogany neck, .84-.94” thickness, C shape
Indian Rosewood fretboard and head cap
25.5” scale, 1.625” nut width
Ivoroid binding and inlays
Mojoaxe Wraparound bridge
TV Jones T90’s
Acrylic pickguard, gold back
ViP 250k Pots
Kluson Deluxe Safe-T Post tuners
Gloss and satin Nitro

This is one of the 13 guitars I completed in 2025. From here, I’ll go back through the last year and then 2024, and a few before that.

First Healer or 2026 delivered safely to CA. This one is for my old friend Anthony / Our bands played way back in the l...
02/23/2026

First Healer or 2026 delivered safely to CA. This one is for my old friend Anthony / Our bands played way back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. I’m always thankful for the connections made back then between the Providence, RI and CT scene’s.

I’ve been doing more bolt on Healer’s as of late, and this is a good representation of what I’d call the standard features with a gloss finish. This is the first candy apple red finish we’ve done as well and I hope to do more red guitars this year, super psyched with the look with the tortoise guard and of course the matching headstock. The traditional nitrocellulose lacquer is from in Canada. Easy to get, amazing color selection. The back of the neck is finished with tru oil over shellac.

Woods are roasted pine and roasted maple and the body is chambered. Whole guitar is around 6.25 lbs thanks to the light weight woods. We continue to use the and bridge as our go to vibrato set-up. Function and tone make them our #1. Locking tuners are Gotoh SD91’s, pickups are humcancelling P-90’s.

25.5” scale, 10” radius Indian rosewood fretboard, 1.625” nut, 47 x 95 fretwire, C shape neck, .84-.92”

Thanks Anthony!

Last Saturday I saw a story here from a guitar maker friend in Turkey named Mert Demir, , which showed the flood damage...
01/31/2026

Last Saturday I saw a story here from a guitar maker friend in Turkey named Mert Demir, , which showed the flood damage in his home and I messaged him right away in hopes of finding out more. The coastal region he’s in experienced multiple days of rain and his whole life has been turned upside down by this disaster. So far, they’ve been out of work for a week and there aren’t any local services that have reached out to help.

I started this Go Fund Me in hopes of getting him and his family (with kids ages 2 and 7) a little bit closer to normalcy until any other funding from insurance might come through. We have an amazing community of guitar makers and repair people through The Looth Group and beyond, here on IG, that are so supportive with sharing knowledge and encouragement, and I hope we can all come together to help Mert during this difficult time.

Any amount will go a long way to help with the flood recovery. Thanks for your consideration! Read more in the GoFundMe page which is linked in my bio and

What an amazing 2 days it’s been here in Anaheim, CA. So great to see so many old friends and meeting so many internet ...
01/24/2026

What an amazing 2 days it’s been here in Anaheim, CA. So great to see so many old friends and meeting so many internet pals in real life. Come on by for day 3 which kicks off at noon and it’s only 10mins from NAMM if your ears need a break!

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