The quality fit and finish of these guitars are 100% top shelf.

The Earlewood comes standard with a graphite nut. Other custom nut materials are available.

Zero Fret Option

A special option is the JET stainless steel zero fret/ebony string guide combination nut. (It looks just like a regular black nut, unless you look carefully.) This will give you the ultimate in sharp, ringing attack if that's what you're after. This feature, combined with the Maple and Ebony neck,  results in the brightest, strongest attack possible in a guitar with humbucking pickups and mahogany body.

Construction

3/32" brass fingerboard end serves as the24th fret, so the neck pickup can be placed further forward in its sweet spot. Book matched quilted maple top is gently radiused, but not bent. The body is peaked like a roof, not flat, to accept the matched ½” top halves which are joined at an angle. Then the top is hand carved to a gentle arc of 25’ radius.

Only one other company uses a radiused top, but their top is actually wood veneer bent and glued over a more radically curved body. At least ½” is required for the Maple to make a significant tonal difference.

Ed

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"The finest guitars we sell"

Dear Ed

Ok, the JET is still incredible, but Holy Cow this Viking is amazing. None of my friends can believe how incredibly light it is !  I still use Quicksilver #343 as my main player but I have now decided to use the Viking at gigs. This guitar has a tone that is indescribable! I will insure the Viking for double and pray to The Lord that nothing happens to it at a gig.

 I still love the brightness and versatility of the Quicksilver but the Viking gets this smooth creamy Peter Green meets Santana tone that I have never experienced with any other guitar that I have ever owned.

Thanks again for this guitar. Currently my absolute favorite that I own. The guitars I have bought from you over the past 2 years are the prize possessions of my entire life.  When I got the JET I was floored and I assumed you would never be able to build anything better than that.

When I look back at some of those crappy Guitar Center guitars that I used to think were pretty good. I realize that I have attained a level of clear light since my association with Ed Roman, Rod Miller and Alan Dreher.

You guys are the best guitar builders in the world. I will be in Vegas this June and I want to take you guys to dinner anywhere you like.

Thanks Again

Ross Wilkins

Dear Mr Roman

THANKS FOR BEING ALIVE !!!

Before I found your website I thought I knew about guitars. I owned two Gibson guitars, three Paul Reed Smith guitars and one extremely  expensive Custom Shop Stratocaster. I was mistakenly under the impression that I owned the finest guitars in the world.  ha ha..

After finding your website in June 2003 and purchasing a Gledura guitar from you, I knew that I had an awful lot to learn.

Today, 12/18/03 I am the proud owner of 1 Gledura , 2 Quicksilvers, 1 Pearlcaster . I just received my   JET Earlewood   yesterday.

I dumped the PRS guitars and the Gibsons at a big loss on ebay. The Fender was impossible to sell so I gave it to my son. My son doesn't even play it he uses my Pearlcaster. He won't even go near the Fender anymore.

The biggest problem I have now that the Earlewood arrived is I can't decide on what guitar to play.

You should be made a Saint ! The guitars you sell are easily 3 times as nice as the crap I was buying at my local Guitar Center. They all came in set up beautifully and Rod was a pleasure to work with.

I will be probably buying either a Viking or a Triggs Archtop in January.

God Bless & Have a Happy Holiday

Ross Wilkins;

Monterey, California

A Great Letter  from Dan Ali

Dear Ed Roman;

This check is part of the balance for the Abstract Centurion guitar with the pig inlays. I'd like to thank you for creating a website that opened me up to world of truly custom made guitars. Sam Ash and Guitar Center stores no longer capture my interest. Also thank you and Alan for taking me a tour of your Connecticut shop while I was there. When I ordered my first and second guitars from you I had requested that the Buzz Feiten system be installed on them.

To be honest I really wasn't convinced that there was any difference in sound; probably because I tune my guitars so carefully and with a very accurate strobe tuner; you would be pressed to tell me that my guitar out of tune. I said, "What a heck" and ordered the modification anyway.

I then received my Green Birdseye top JET Earlewood #126; I'm sure you've seen it. I still wasn't convinced after playing it a week. I then reset the intonation to the Buzz Feiten specs and tuned up. After one strum I was then a believer. Not only is my JET Earlewood the best looking and easiest playing guitar in the world, it is also the best sounding.

I'll match my JET up against any guitar on planet. My JET makes my beloved Paul Reed Smith Custom 22 feel like an Ibanez. I thought nothing could top my PRS. If people are buying JET Earlewood guitars just for their looks that’s understandable, but they are missing the best part; they play like heaven. Imagine playing full bar chords with distortion and still sounding sweet.

I can't wait until I get my Abstract Centurion with "Buzz" system and pig inlays, I'm sure that'll be next to "Hog" up all my attention

Sincerely,

Dan Ali

Ed,

        I have had my Jaros now for 2 Months and I love it. Every now and then I catch a note, while standing in front of my 1/2 stack, and that thing starts

resonating like a "Wild Beast". It makes me feel like the Nuge reigning in that Byrdland at 1000db's. Man I'm getting light headed just thinking about it. I wanted to let you know, just for grins I sent a request in for a price on a PRS Private Stock built the way I wanted it. Wholly Cow!  $9,550.00. When I finish building my special "Cash Stash" my new JET Earlewood will be about 1/2 that and I'm sure it will blow the balls of a Rhino at 50 yards and better yet, I won't be afraid to play it for fear of $5.000.00 value hit with a little nick or scratch. Keep it up, I hope to visit in the next couple of months to see all your cool stuff.

 Does the Conn. shop do setups? It is closer that Vegas and I run though that area a couple times per year. I love to get a small tweak done to the Jaros when I put some 10's on it. Unless you can recommend a shop in the Va/Wash DC/Maryland area that does good work (simple setup stuff).

BTW,   When Jim recovers fully from his surgery and builds a couple of specials, will you be guys that sell them for him?

Kudos to Scott, he was super helpful with my purchase experience. Thanks,

        Happy Jaros Camper

Wayne Stoll