New Dealer – ACME Guitars in St. Louis

I’m really happy to add ACME as an official Swope Dealer.  Mike has been in this business for a long time and I have a ton of respect for him.  And, by the way, what a cool shop!  Anyone visiting St. Louis needs to stop by ACME.  Cool people, cool...

Introducing the Biscayne. Order yours now.

The Biscayne is designed to be pure fun and I’m now taking direct orders for this more moderately priced model.  A non-refundable $600 deposit will reserve yours.  The balance is due upon completion.  ETA depends on when you order.  Contact me via this website and I’ll send you an invoice for the deposit via PayPal. Pricing starts at $1299 plus S/H for 1 pickup “switchless wonder.” So what’s that all about?  Well, the Biscayne is designed to be a platform guitar.  By this, I mean that it is built to modify and have fun with.  So, as stated, they’ll start at $1299. I’ll sell them with 2 pickups and a switch for $1425 plus S/H and 3 pickups and a switch for $1499 plus S/H.  The single pickup model still has a switch route, it’s just plugged.  I will be offering a variety of my pickups in pre-loaded pickguards that you can purchase separately, later on, should you want to try something else other than your initial order.  Likewise, if you have a drawer full of pickups that you’ve collected over the years, I’m happy to make and sell a guard for you so that you can have fun with some of that old stuff, too.  I’ve gone through every point in my build of materials to see how I can save a little here or there in an effort to bring the price down without sacrificing tone.  So, satin finish on the neck instead of a deep gloss, a burned in headstock logo rather that a waterslide decal that requires building up layers of lacquer both underneath and...

New Dealer in Texas – Infinity Guitars

I’m really happy to have Houston’s Infinity Guitars as the newest official Swope dealer.  Randy has some super cool guitars and I’m flattered to have Swope included in his inventory.   Click here to check out the Texas Swopes!...

Dakota Bass

This bass has been a long time coming.  After a long gestation period of pickup design and road testing I brought the Swope Dakota to Summer NAMM.  I couldn’t be happier with the response! Details to...

2 New Swope Models

Here are the prototypes for my two new guitars.  The MG and the GTO.  More details to follow. Click to make them grow!...

Dave Weiner uses a Geronimo on “Riff of the Week!”

Dave Weiner – Multifaceted guitar virtuoso, online music educator and long time guitarist with Steve Vai – uses a Swope Geronimo in this week’s “Riff of the Week” lesson. Check it out. 99 cents a week! We’ve come a long way from the day when John and Paul took a bus to the other side of Liverpool because they heard about this guy there who knew how finger a B7 chord!...