Here’s your Christmas guitar. Merry Christmas Somebody! This DTG ’52 is new and we are just finishing it up. Due to a customer cancellation this guitar is near completion and waiting for a new home. It can be yours for Christmas if you give us a call. It includes Titanium Saddles and Ferrules, Special Open Back Tuners, titanium Neck Plate and custom Sunburst Finish. Contact us to buy this guitar at 818-782-9933 or email us at mike@detempleguitars.com

-We recently delivered a beautiful Twin Set of DeTemple Spirit Series ’52 and ’56 guitars to Kirk Hammett of Metallica.

Both guitars featured Matched Featherweight Swamp Ash Bodies, Book matched maple necks, 100 year old book matched Brazilian Rosewood Fingerboards, Fossilized Mastodon nuts, Mastodon Switch Tips, Mastodon String Trees, Titanium Neck Plates, Custom Italian Celluloid Tortoise Shell pickguards, Special Open Back Tuners, DeTemple SweetSpot Pickups and Custom Black Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish.

The ’52 featured DeTemple Compensated Titanium Saddles and Titanium Ferrules.

The ’56 featured our very popular DeTemple Titanium Trem Assembly.

THIS GUITAR HAS BEEN SOLD......... Never Played Spirit Series ’56 - This guitar weighs in at 7 pounds. It features a one piece Swamp Ash body, gold hardware and our titanium trem assembly. The neck is highly figured Flamed Maple with a Bocote skunk stripe. We delivered this guitar in January of 2005 and the owner never played it. He wanted to learn how but just never got around to it. Give Mike a call for more info at 818-782-9933 email at mike@detempleguitars.com

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THIS GUITAR HAS BEEN SOLD........For sale due to customer’s cancellation. This guitar is a beautiful Pistachio Mint Spirit Series ’56. It is a Featherweight, weighing in at just 6.75 Lbs. It is equipped with Titanium Truss Rod, Titanium Trem Assembly, Special Open Back Tuners, Fossilized Walrus Tusk Switch Tip, and Italian Celluloid Abalone pick guard. If you would prefer a white pick guard we can change it with no problem. This guitar is ready to ship with no waiting at all! Call Mike at (818) 782-9933 for more info or have a look at this beautiful guitar > HERE

THIS GUITAR HAS BEEN SOLD

Made in 2005, this is a Standard DTG '52 with Italian Celluloid Tortoise Shell Pick Guard, Titanium Compensated Saddles, Titanium Ferrules, and DTG Custom Case. It also has Fossilized Mastodon String Tree, Switch Tip, and Nut.

This guitar is in almost new condition and is a very fine instrument.
Please call Mike with any questions.

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Would you be interested in a very custom configured Tele? It has a highly figured Flame maple neck with African Blackwood fingerboard, Featherweight Body and custom routing for the convertible feature of Phoenix pickup or Standard pickup in the neck position.

It is said that “African Blackwood is to Brazilian Rosewood as Brazilian Rosewood is to Indian Rosewood”.

The Phoenix pickup is my take on a Firebird Humbucker made with alnico 2 magnets. The convertible feature allows you to change from the Phoenix neck pickup to our Standard Tele neck pickup in about 15 minutes with no soldering involved. The body is Blonde and the two pickguards are Italian Celluloid for the Phoenix and Black Lacquered Phenolic for the Standard Tele neck pup. The blonde finish could be turned into our Custom mid 50s finish if so desired. This guitar was being made for a very visible and well known artist but the economy has made it impossible for him to finish the project. This guitar will be completed in about 6 months. This is an opportunity to own one of our guitars in a very short period of time. Some of the options are still open to your choices.

Give Mike a call to discuss this guitar at (818) 782-9933 or email at mike@detempleguitars.com

THIS GUITAR HAS BEEN SOLD

Rare One of a Kind Left Handed DeTemple ’52 (Tele Style) Guitar

Rare One of a Kind Left Handed DeTemple ’52 (Tele Style) Guitar. We made this for Elliot Easton of the Cars. This guitar is the only left handed DeTemple in existence and it is the lightest guitar we have ever built. It weighs just under 6.5 lbs. It has all of our DeTemple Titanium Parts, including Titanium Saddles, Titanium Ferrules, and Titanium Neck Plate. We made this guitar with the upgraded Red Maple Neck and Custom Mid 50’s finish. It also has our Special Open Back Tuners. This guitar is really a special instrument and it is being offered direct from DeTemple Guitars. You can be the owner of the only “Lefty” DeTemple ever made. Please give us a call for more details.

Phone (818) 782-9933
Email: mike@detempleguitars.com

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The Trunk Show - Elephant Art Fashion Show & Auction will take place in New York at 532 W. 27th St. New York, NY. 10001 Doors open 6:00pm – Runway Show 7:30pm – Auction 8:30pm. We've donated a DeTemple Stratocaster-style guitar which was "trunk painted" by Two star elephants, Kam Lai Tong and Ging Gaow that will be auctioned at the show. If you're in the area it would be a must-see event. For more information click HERE.

Premier Guitar Magazine (www.premierguitar.com) will be doing a review of one of our DTG Spirit Series '56 guitars this December. Premier guitar's talented writer Adam Hunt has one of our '56 models right now and will be writing the review. He has called me with many questions concerning our Titanium Guitar Parts and accessories. as well as asking me about the methods and processes we use in building our guitars. I know he likes our SweetSpot pickups because he said that he wants to put a set in his personal Fender Strat. Watch for the Review and be sure to visit our website at www.detempleguitars.com

Get a behind the scene look at the DeTemple Guitar Factory as Mike and his gang walk you through the process of how a DeTemple Guitar is made...very eye opening! Click triangle to play video.
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