You have these days. You’re bored and looking at that bare spot on the wall and thinking “I need a new guitar and it would go nicely right there!”

Work was dull and all those guitar shopping sites were just a click and tab away. But after perusing them for a while, I realized that there wasn’t anything there that really had that break-out-the-credit-card feeling. Everything was either boring or more than a year at private school. Sigh. 

I went two tabs over to check the FB notifications and voila! Something interesting. A few people had commented on a post that I did as well, later. Then I saw that my cousin, Doug Cook had a new post. He had just sold one of his custom guitars. 

Epiphany warning. 

I realized that I should have Doug build a guitar for me. So, that started a FB Messenger conversation and a few images that went back and forth and lots of my mind changing, we committed on the Creamsicle. Tango Charlie body, semi-hollow, fabric top (from a rarely worn shirt of mine), orange side and back, maple neck and fretboard, dual P90s (cream), and a single coil placed nice and cozily between them (tone for days!), 5-way switch to capture all the moods and a push-pull as the proverbial cherry. 

I was so excited about pulling the trigger that I started to ask Doug what his plan was for his now hobby. The dreams are big and this got me excited. So, here we are. At the starting blocks of a grand dream of Doug’s….making YOUR signature guitar.