Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Ushirokara-Maekawa.

Hey friends,

Check out our Official YouTube Channel to see the latest uploaded vid!
The video is another slap-bass demo, this time featuring the one and only Ushirokara-Maekawa.

Combat Guitars Official YouTube Channel:



Ushirokara-Maekawa


As I have stated in a previous post, Maekawa is quite a familiar face around the Combat Guitars family circle. He is a renowned professional session musician who collaborates his amazing bass ability on many different projects. He has been featured in numerous magazines, and has also been welcomed further inside the Combat camp as an instructor in the newly established Combat Guitar School.

Maekawa exclusively, and proudly, plays Combat Basses.
Here are but a few regularly used weapons in his ever growing arsenal of custom Combat Basses:

Maekawa's Combat Custom 4-String Bass


This bass's main specs include:
A solid Ash body, bolt on Hard Maple neck on a Purple Heart fingerboard.
Custom frog inlays. (Maekawa has a thing for frogs).
All gold hardware. Two Haussel pick-ups, Kahler bass tremolo bridge and an Aguilar obp3 pre-amp. The controls are 1 vol, 1 tone, 1 mid and a treb-bass stack pot.




Maekawa's main bass. Custom Combat AYA Series 7-string Bass


Here we go again with another awesome instrument in our ever growing array of AYA Series guitars and basses. This one is Maekawa's main bass, and it is truly a gorgeous instrument.
Here we have an Alder body, laminated and weaved with layers of Bubinga, RoseWood, Flamed Maple, Hard Maple, Ebony and Purple Heart.
The bolt on neck is constructed of Hard Maple, Walnut and RoseWood, with a RoseWood fingerboard.
Four Villex pick-ups, with two Aguilar obp2 pre-amps.
All gold hardware. Hipshot 7-string bridge, 4 stack pots; vol, treb, mid & bass, and 2 balancers.



Maekawa; slappin' the AYA Series LIVE!



Check out my other blog posts for profiles on various other AYA Series guitars and basses! You can also see more pics on our official web site, and official MySpace page!
And don't forget to check out our official YouTube channel to see Maekawa slappin' it silly on his Combat Custom 4-string!


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- Combat Colin.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Ohta Katsu!

Head on over to our Official MySpace page, and check out a cool addition!
We just uploaded an awesome song into the music player, an original song recorded by golden boy Ohta Katsu.

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Ohta Katsu

Yesterday, Katsu came by our office with a very nice surprise. It seems he recorded an original song to donate to us for promo on the MySpace. This is an awesome way, not only for you to hear a Combat Guitar being shredded like nobody's business, but for you to also hear Katsu's amazing guitar playing.


For those who don't yet know the name Ohta Katsu, he is one of Japan's golden-boy Guitar heroes. His popularity continues to rise every year and is being featured in an increasing amount of magazine coverage, guitar books, DVD's and other media forms of guitar instruction and adoration, not just in Japan but in many other Countries and websites/ magazines, etc from abroad.

Ohta Katsu stumbled upon Combat Guitars a few years ago and has not looked back since. He continues to play and stand behind Combat, using Combat Guitars for all of his studio and live work.

Katsu's weapon of choice is the Combat ST Series. His are custom made a smaller size than a usual ST style guitar. Made with an Alder body, one-piece bolt on Maple neck and Dimarzio Virtual Solo pickups in all 3 positions. A standard set-up of 3-way toggle switch, one Master Vol and two Tone controls. He changes the head shape on different guitars, all of which are Combat original designs. The jumbo scalloped frets are also an important feature Katsu demands for his guitars.



Ohta Katsu Custom ST


















For more info on Ohta Katsu-

Ark Storm Official MySpace:

Ark Storm Official English HomePage:




For more on the Combat ST-Series Guitars, check out my April 12th Blog Post here:





- Combat Colin.


Thursday, June 4, 2009

AYA Series Custom ST.

Here's another newly built guitar I just HAD TO show off.
It's a beautiful custom ST based on our
AYA series. In case you are not yet familiar with our AYA themed series of guitars and basses, at the end of this blog post I will provide a link to one of my previous posts on the AYA Series.

Just to tell you a little bit right now though,
AYA guitars and basses are not a series of instruments based on a specific "shape", but rather an aesthetic design. We have built AYA Series guitars with the ST shapes (like the one I will show you below), AYA TL's, AYA G-Series, and a whole slew of AYA themed basses.

The
AYA themed guitar series are Asian influenced aesthetic designs infused into the highest quality hand-made guitars and basses out there.

Check out this custom
AYA ST:


AYA Series Custom ST by Combat Guitars




Here we have an Alder body with a pretty stunning top and back. Both top and back are laminated with Purple Heart, Buckeye Maple, Flamed Maple and Ebony. The top is further complimented with a matching hand-made pick guard of the same materials. Awesome sounding Lindy Fralin pickups, with custom made Purple Heart pickup covers.




One-piece Maple neck with a laminated Honduras Rosewood fingerboard. The fingerboard is also weaved with Padouk, Flamed Maple, Ebony and Purple Heart. The inlays are real Abalone weaved with Ebony.



Inverted Combat original head. Stamped with the AYA Series logo.



For more info on the AYA Series Guitars & Basses, check out my April 6
th blog post on the AYA Series: HERE

To see more pics of AYA-Series guitars & Basses, as well as the other original line-up of Combat Guitars; the Tele-Warm Series, the ST-Warm, the G-Series, and the LT-Series CLICK HERE!



If you would like to build a hand-made AYA Series guitar or bass, send us an email and tell us your ideas! Visit our official Web Site for our contact details!





If you are interested in creating your own custom Combat Guitar or bass, simply fill out our FREE Estimate Form to as far as you can with all your ideas and specs, etc, and I will get back to you, usually within the next day, with advice and a FREE estimate!




CLICK HERE to read more about why hand-made is better.

CLICK HERE to read about all the steps involved in making a custom guitar:




Thanks!




- Combat Colin.


Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Combat LT-Series Guitar.

This time, I want to get up close with another Combat original body design. The LT-Series guitar! This model is a relatively new design, but it is gaining quite a lot of interest rapidly. The orders for the LT Series are becoming much more frequent, and they are now even finding their way into the hands of many popular musicians, and onto those big stages where they belong!


COMBAT ORIGINAL LT-SERIES GUITAR


Like our other Original line-up of guitars (the Tele-Warm Series, ST-Warm Series, and G-Series) the LT-Series is an arched-top model guitar. (Though we do build all these in flat-tops as per request!) What makes the LT-Series so unique is the actual height of the top. Most, if not all arched-top guitars have a laminated arch of usually around the 15mm mark. The Combat LT-Series has an arched top of 20mm. For those who like the tone characteristcs that arched-tops provide, you will flip over the look and the sound of the LT-Series guitar.

Instead of just flashing a bunch of pics of different LT-Series guitars, like I did in my post about the Combat original G-Series, I thought I would simply focus in on one custom LT we just finished making yesterday. Besides, by looking at some of my previous blog posts (again like the G-Series, the ST-Series, and the TL-Series) I am sure you get the picture by now that, YES, these guitars are all Order-Made and the possibilities for customizable options is virtually limitless.

For example, check this one out!
As I said, we just finished this one yesterday, and it is smokin'!




The main specs on this custom LT-Series include a Maple neck-through-body design, 2-piece
Honduras Mahogany body, Honduras Rosewood finger board, and a beautiful Quilted Maple top
and matching Quilted Maple laminated head. The guitar also has a very nice looking natural wood binding on both body and head.



24 frets, complimented by real Abalone inlays, gold Grover type Combat tuners, gold Gotoh
Tune-O-Matic bridge, and matching gold end pins and controls. The controls are; one master Vol, 1 master Tone. 3-way pickup selector switch above the neck, and a mini tap switch behind the bridge.



The pickups are EMG 89's. These are pretty cool because these active pickups are exactly like having two pickups in one. The tap switch allows the player to either have the tonal qualities of a humbucker (modeled after the EMG 85), flip the switch, and then have the tonal characteristics of a single coil (modeled after the EMG SA).





Takeshi from SUPE. Custom LT-Series Guitar




As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, the LT-Series guitar is rapidly gaining quite a bit of interest, and many professional musicians are choosing to add the LT-Series guitar to their arsenal. One such artist is Takeshi from the band SUPE.

As you can see once again, the LT-Series can be order-made to your exact specs. The differences between Takeshi's guitar and the one I profiled above are countless. Not just color, but neck grip, hardware, pickups, inlays, the list goes on and on. Combat even has a few original head shapes to choose from, and both of these LT-Series guitars feature totally different head designs.




Takeshi rockin' the LT Live!!


For more info on Supe:

Supe Official Web Site:

Supe Official MySpace:


To see more pics of the Combat LT-Series, as well as the other original line-up of Combat Guitars; the Tele-Warm Series, the ST-Warm, and the G-Series CLICK HERE!





If you are interested in creating your own custom Combat Guitar or bass, simply fill out our FREE Estimate Form to as far as you can with all your ideas and specs, etc, and I will get back to you, usually within the next day, with advice and a FREE estimate!




CLICK HERE to read more about why hand-made is better.

CLICK HERE to read about all the steps involved in making a custom guitar:




We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Thanks for reading!




- Combat Colin.