This weekend June 1st 2025
CATCH US AT THIS WEEKENDS ELMIRA VINTAGE GUITAR SHOW
We will have all of our current stock builds on display at Sundays event. Come hang out, talk guitars, and see what we have to offer!
May 25 2025-Minecraft shocks the box office
MASTER OF MINECRAFT
Another one from our personal collection bites the dust! Considering who wanted it, who we're we to say no. Being a big Metallica fan, this James Hetfield tribute "Hexplorer" is the perfect animal for the beast that is Jason Momoa
Though this is not the exact guitar as the infamous "EET FUK" ESP before it, this is just a tribute ( Tenacious d joke) complete with aged vintage checking, old growth genuine mahogany, and timeless aged Olympic white nitro! We'll be sad to see this one go
Easily the most challenging hand routed inlay job we've ever taken on. Abalone middle fingers into incredibly rare Brazilian rosewood
We'll be starting up the matching bass very soon
May 23-2025
TRIUMPHANT SALE
In a Surprise turn of events, our Revelation prototype has been sold from our personal collection to Zach Ezrin of New York Advent metal band Imperial Triumphant
We're quite touched by this one because it was actually bought by a friend of Zach's, and given to him as a surprise birthday gift. Zach had no idea, and Max and I worked out an agreement and pulled it off! This all started from a comment on our instagram post stating " I Bet zach would rip the hell out of this on stage" zach then responded and max took charge. We are very touched by the whole g
Nov 2024-Exodus crushes Toronto
THE STRIKE OF THE BEAST!
It's never a bad time when Exodus is in town! These guys put on a killer show time after time and it's a real privilege to hang out with the guys. It was our honour to get our second and only round horn Vulcan, into the hands of friend and guitar legend Gary Holt.
Nov 2024-Fit For An Autopsy Detroit
SEEING RED IN DETROIT ROCK CITY
Tim Howley on stage closing out the show with the very first Clarke Customs 7 string. Up until this point we had been chatting and collaborating with Tim on some custom guitar straps through his brand Southshore leather works, but were eager to get his expertise on how a 7 string should look and feel
This was a masterful build complete with cut offs from Gary Holt's guitar( headstock block), a 5A quilted maple top, and the craziest neck lamination we had done to date. We had our close friend Padraig at Corrigan pickups whip up a special Katana prototype bridge pickup for this one, and it really sings!
13 piece padauk, curly maple, dyed birch, and mahogany at its finest! This one is going to be hard to top
Sept 2024-Slayer RiotFest Chicago
RAINING BLOOD OR RAINING TEARS?
Tears of joy that is! We can't begin to explain the level of pride/nervousness and excitement that was flowing through our veins at this very moment. It's one thing to see Slayer live, It's another to see a guitar you hand crafted up there with the guys.... We love you Gary!! Absolutely insane
April 1st-2024
APRIL FOOLS? NO WAIT YOU'RE SERIOUS....
When a funny April fools day joke turns into a wild adventure and multiple guitar order from our biggest client ever, next to the guy who caused the chaos!
WHAT IT TURNED INTO
Inside the case you'll find our chefs kiss. The cut offs from the bottom arches, made into a door, and personally engraved with the infamous G.O.T quote "The stallion who mounts the world". stained and matched to the guitar itself as if completing a puzzle when fitted in it's case.
Another important piece of this puzzle was the custom set of Corrigan pickups made at special request for this guitar.
Luckily we had the remining top half from Gary's creature like Quilted maple top to make a near perfect replica to the guitar in the legendary guitarist hands. Gary and Jason being friends, and Jason a big slayer fan, it was super cool to connect the dots. Though Jason technically has the better one, sorry Gary lol
This was our time to shine so we put in every effort to make this a memorable and forever guitar for Jason. Along with matching tops to the Slayer legend, hidden easter eggs fill the guitar and its custom case. "The stallion who mounts the world" engraved into the back paying homage to his infamous Game of Thrones character Khal Drogo
To go along with the whole game of thrones theme of this guitar, we also fitted it with a custom "dragon skin" white fur lined case. We have a tendency to make our Vulcans a tad too large for the conventional case, why not fit it with a dragon skin coffin? That's metal!
There is so much more we would love to share with you, but just like us, you'll have to wait for the rest!
December 2023- Exodus @ the machine shop Flint
FABULOUS DISASTER? PERHAPS NOT...
The gift that keeps on giving. A guitar we hardly finished on time, would go on to be our most important guitar of our career. The classic exodus tune Fabulous Disaster hits much different after you've heard it live through one of your instruments!
The most important guitar we've ever made
We're just 8 months into our venture of guitar making by this point and had been reaching out to suppliers for insights and advice. Thanks to the good folks at Floyd Rose for sharing some of our pics. Somehow it caught the eye of Gary, and we began to notice the occasional like. At the risk of sounding all fanboyish, we reached out to say thanks for the motivation and the rest is history!
After talking here and there, we offered to make Gary the best possible guitar we could in return for his time, feedback, and to have exodus sign one of our early guitars. Much like with Floyd Rose we expected to hear a " its a conflict of interest with this brand" to our surprise Gary responds "F*&k yeah lets do it!" What he would go on to do with this guitar would change our life!
This was the 13th guitar we had done and we wanted to really make a dent with it. The quilted maple top has an angry creature like face where the bridge pickup turns into a bloody smile. The 12th fret is marked with engraved bloodwood for Gary and Lisa's lucky number.
Now used live in both Exodus and Slayer shows, the ripple affect caused by this guitar has shaped our existence and to that we owe