Snitzl's Handmade Guitars.

The main Body is mahogany topped with maple and an ebony binding. The neck is also mahogany with an ebony fingerboard and circular maple fretboard position markers. The inlaid snake in the head and control knob inlays are both ebony, while the control knobs, tailpiece, bridge, nut jack plate and strap knobs are machined from solid brass. The pickups are gold 59 Seymour Duncan (Seth Lover).


The neck is of through body construction and consists of laminations of maple and walnut with an ebony fingerboard and small offset circular maple fretboard position markers. The wings of the body are swamp ash and the control knobs are inlaid with maple. Control knobs, tailpieces, bridge and strap knobs are machined from solid  brass. Pickups are E.M.G's as used on the early Steinbergers.


Both the body and neck are constructed from rock maple with the neck having an ebony skunk stripe on the back. Fretboard position markers are small circular dots in ebony and the inlaid snake in the head is ebony. The small shield near the nut in the head is mahogany. The control knobs are made in maple. The bridge, nut and strap knobs are machined from solid brass. Pickups are Seymour Duncan SSL-1 vintage staggered for Strat. Wired with one volume control and an individual tone control for each pickup.


This guitar was made alongside its brother above and follows the same contruction..The body and neck are constructed from rock maple with the neck having an ebony skunk stripe on the back. Fretboard position markers are small circular dots in ebony. The inlaid snake in the head is ebony and a small shield near the nut is mahogany. The control knobs are made in maple. The bridge, nut and strap knobs are machined from solid brass. Pickups are Fender Lace Sensor. Wired with one volume control and an individual tone control for each pickup.


The main body of this heavy weight is rock maple capped with a highly figured rock maple. Not clear from the picture but this guitar has ebony binding on both the front and back. The neck is also maple with an ebony fingerboard and maple fretboard position markers. The control knobs, tailpiece, bridge, nut, jack plate and strap knobs are machined from solid brass. Pickups are Seynour Duncan Antiquity humbuckers....Designed with Charles Atlas in mind, heavy is not the word to describe this guitar., mistake is probably a better word. .....


Nicknamed the JackAxe, this handcrafted guitar was made for a close friend. The main body of this guitar is swamp ash, while the neck is maple with an ebony fingerboard and maple position markers. Control knobs are also maple, while the pickup select switch, nut and strap pins are machined from solid brass. Tremolo is standard Stratocaster and the pickups are Seymour Duncan. 2 x SL1's and a Pearly Gates with coil tap as used on Fenders Fat Strat. Pickup select switch is rotary and wired for (a) humbucker bridge, (b) Single coil bridge, (c) SL1 Middle , (d) SL1 Neck. ....... Oh and the machine heads are Sperzel's..



This is Brother JackAxe, full brother to JackAxe featured on above. The main body of this guitar is swamp ash, while the neck is maple with an ebony fingerboard and maple position markers. Control knobs are also maple, while the pickup select switch, nut and strap pins are machined from solid brass. Tremolo is standardStratocaster and the pickups are Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates with coil tap. . Pickup select switch is rotary and wired for (a) humbucker bridge, (b) Single coil bridge, (c) Humbucker neck , (d) Single coil neck..

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