The Twitter link is essentially archival. I posted my work there for years, but I don't use it anymore since it's run by a maniac. I'm on Bluesky more these days at bsky.app/profile/splitcoil.bsky.social.
Crowfoot guitars are made by me, Sean Crawford, first in a home shop in Chula Vista, and now in a maker space in San Diego, California. I've been playing and tinkering with guitars since the 90s and finally decided to start building them myself in 2016. This is a part-time, evenings and weekends effort for me, on top of my day job. As such, I only work on a couple of instruments at a time. If you're interested in a build, please use the contact form to give me an idea of what you're looking for and I'll let you know if I'm free to start the instrument.
I do not build 'relic' guitars. I do build a lot of guitars that look old and comfortable, but I don't beat them up. Time will beat them up eventually. I'm not into dyed, flame maple tops. My "thing" as much as I have a thing, seems to be building guitars with a kind of simple, classic feel to them. My lacquer finishes are usually thin and not the kind of perfectly flat, mirror finish you can get from any $200 factory guitar. I work to preserve the feel of the wood. A specific tree spent decades making that wood. It's beautiful, and I want everyone to enjoy seeing it and feeling it. As such, my finishes usually have some texture to them. The texture of the wood beneath. I've been doubling down on this lately, doing more oil finishes.
My standard neck profile is a little unusual. It's influenced mostly on the Rickenbacker 650C, an oddball guitar in so many ways. It's a kind of big C shape, but unusually flattish on the back. With nicely rolled fretboard edges, a lot of people find it very comfortable, scratching an itch they didn't know they had. Your mileage may vary.
My prices are all over the place, depending on a variety of options. Guitars I build for my own amusement and put up for sale usually run $1000 to $1500. Special commissions that involve more design work and custom bits will usually run $1500 to $2000. Shipping outside the US can be very expensive, and even complicated, given rules governing the shipping of some hardwoods. But I'm willing to work with you on it if you're interested.
Crowfoot guitars are made by me, Sean Crawford, first in a home shop in Chula Vista, and now in a maker space in San Diego, California. I've been playing and tinkering with guitars since the 90s and finally decided to start building them myself in 2016. This is a part-time, evenings and weekends effort for me, on top of my day job. As such, I only work on a couple of instruments at a time. If you're interested in a build, please use the contact form to give me an idea of what you're looking for and I'll let you know if I'm free to start the instrument.
I do not build 'relic' guitars. I do build a lot of guitars that look old and comfortable, but I don't beat them up. Time will beat them up eventually. I'm not into dyed, flame maple tops. My "thing" as much as I have a thing, seems to be building guitars with a kind of simple, classic feel to them. My lacquer finishes are usually thin and not the kind of perfectly flat, mirror finish you can get from any $200 factory guitar. I work to preserve the feel of the wood. A specific tree spent decades making that wood. It's beautiful, and I want everyone to enjoy seeing it and feeling it. As such, my finishes usually have some texture to them. The texture of the wood beneath. I've been doubling down on this lately, doing more oil finishes.
My standard neck profile is a little unusual. It's influenced mostly on the Rickenbacker 650C, an oddball guitar in so many ways. It's a kind of big C shape, but unusually flattish on the back. With nicely rolled fretboard edges, a lot of people find it very comfortable, scratching an itch they didn't know they had. Your mileage may vary.
My prices are all over the place, depending on a variety of options. Guitars I build for my own amusement and put up for sale usually run $1000 to $1500. Special commissions that involve more design work and custom bits will usually run $1500 to $2000. Shipping outside the US can be very expensive, and even complicated, given rules governing the shipping of some hardwoods. But I'm willing to work with you on it if you're interested.