BIRDSONGS  Ready to claim! Some ready to ship, others are working builds we finish up & ship off to you. Sometimes if you claim them in-process we can make last minute customizations for you... once they're done we like to sell them as equipped. Builds for inventory are known to have cool & unusual or one-off features, and sometimes we even offer prototypes here!
Skyrider #003 from 2010 Pre-owned; excellent condition! This is a wild, beautiful Mahogany and Bloodwood bass! To show the iridescence of the grain in the body, I've shown a "flash" shot... it's very 3-dimensional. Barely any play wear, fully checked over & adjusted by us. Offered at $1795 including shipping! SALE $1750 - this bass would be $2300+ new with a 6 month wait! Old school & hand burned, baby!
11C-231 Cortobass Fretless ALMOST DONE! Mahogany body Maple neck Black Ebony fingerboard YOUR CHOICE FLATWOUNDS OR TAPEWOUNDS... can have it ready & out the door in a week. $1750 includes case & USA shipping!
Mahogany Standard Cortobasses The bass that built Birdsong! Pick yours & spec it out...
Two little solid rustic wild Texas Mesquite basses left over from the tiny batch of "Mesquitos" years ago... the Mesquito was a small bodied fretless.  These things are chunks! Dare to be different? There won't be any more! I'll make them fretted or fretless, single standard humbucker or higher output.	No worries, I'll finish filling in all the stabilized cracks with turquoise. Hey if it were shaped like a horse it'd be Southwestern art!
Cortobass C243 Blackwashed Mahogany Rest of it? Up to you!	(Without & with flash)
BIRDSONG Bboxes!   The original little wooden tone boxes. Each will have a 6-way varitone voiced to color your bass or guitar with shades of upper midrange punch, hollow body and "Santana" tones... our new version of the varitone with selected new & NOS capacitors... still all passive and completely hand made in-house, now by the one, the only, "3D."  These are completely crafted here at the workshop from leftover magic guitar wood, some more square than others, every one a handmade mojo-filled workshop goodie!
	FOR BBOXES GO TO 3D'S SITE: WWW.DDDODD.COM - He's got some ready!
NON-BIRDSONG INSTRUMENTS            512.392.4400
JG Guitar Works "Karlin" model hand made by Birdsong & SD Curlee head luthier Jake Goede! This one is an early build from 2009 and is a STUNNER. It has a little play wear on the body but that's just proof it's worthy! I want this one so bad... I have two Karlins and they're the sweetest sounding, best feeling electrics I've ever had. The man has designed & built an iconic original of his own. He even winds the pickups himself. Here's your chance to grab one! More details over the weekend, or call me at 512-392-4400 if the pictures say enough. Priced to sell - $1500
	3D Prototype "Hollow Chunk" This guitar is too cool - a VERY chambered Pine & Poplar manifestation of  "a good idea"... man did this translate nicely out of Don's head into the world! You can feel it vibrate against you acoustically and he fitted this one with a pair of Epiphone PAF-type humbuckers. It's a blues & jazz machine and rocks out too. As a designer/builder, what works in concept in the mind and on the page has to work in the real world in ways that can't be felt before it's actually in your hands. So we build prototypes; sometimes several. Nothing further needed with this one, it's practically alive.  With a funky hidden piezo pickup, a 5-way, and a 6-way varitone, there are sounds in here that'll answer tonal questions you haven't even asked yet. If I didn't already have 3 of them (including one of these with just a neck pickup), this wouldn't be up here.  24" scale for comfort, set up for easy playing, natural oil finish... don't know what else to say but here it is, it's NEW and you can't go wrong for $795 + shipping!
Vintage Kay archtop "Grandpa" I've had this for about 13 years. The wear and cracks have been there the whole time; I've played it on stage.  Most of these have necks that bowed to where they won't play; this neck definitely has some relief but still plays with a medium action and it has that old vintage archtop tone; it records like a dream! And in my 30 years of being waaaay into guitars I've never seen another Kay with a pearl inlayed crest logo on the headstock or this cool tortoise binding. So I have no idea what it is. Other than "cool", with the kind of patina that can't be faked. It's so cool, you could be the biggest goober in the known universe and attain instant coolness just by opening the case. Ask me how I know...  I'm not doing these treasures any respect by keeping them sitting in the case, so I've decided to start selling them. Maybe I'll take the $$$ and turn it into parts for a Road Runner I'm fixing up, or do something on the bucket list. I dunno. But here in the second half, the rules have changed. So take it and play some great blues by a campfire and let it give what's left of itself in service to the muse... as I hope to do myself! $375
'90s Ibanez Artstar Not to be confused with the more recent Chinese Ibanez "Artcore" jazz guitars that are all over the place for sale. You don't see too many Artstars. This was the line of Korea-made guitars just under their flagship Japanese line in the early 90s, and they are amazing playing guitars with tone for days.  This one comes with the original hardshell case, plush lined with fuzzy cover inside, and it has been dressed up with Rosewood knobs and truss rod cover. It is my personal guitar, I've had it for a few years... I got it from a Jazz guitarist who couldn't play anymore and this was the last instrument he kept... and sold. Play it and you'll know why. A killer, killer guitar for chump change! $475 SALE $450
OTHER STUFF
Great for dinners for two, meditation or just a warm glow in the cabin, these rustic miniature oil lamps come with a standard-size replaceable sealed candle lamp good for 8 hours. Each is unique and signed on the bottom.  Price includes shipping in cont. USA. $25 each (By request I can make stuff like this out of the leftover wood from your bass build...)	Here are two (sold) of rustic Mesquite during the oil finish... can I make some for you?
Woodcraft	Great gifts for yourself, home, studio, or the significant other who let you buy a Birdsong! All hand made from guitar cutoffs & "found" wood by Scott in the workshop when he's not on the instrument builds... something special can even be made from the wood from yours!
Yard Sale (Misc. Stuff)	Free shipping in continental US unless noted otherwise! Texas sales add 8.25% tax.
Ok, I'm clearing out the clutter & buying parts for the Road Runner. :) All purchases from the "Yard Sale" go directly towards bringing a really rockin' green machine back to life... thanks! ~Scott	"Barn find" from North Texas via Oklahoma. 1974 Plymouth Road Runner... "meep meep!" THE GREEN RUNNER THANKS YOU!
	Music-related readage! Step back from the screens of life & read a good book. $5 each George Harrison "Dark Horse" biography Stewart Copeland Autobiography "Strange Things Happen" (Drummer for The Police) Neil Young "A Dreamer Of Pictures - The Man And His Music" "Life On Planet Rock" Edgy autobiography of the founder of "Rip" magazine in the '80s "40 Watts From Nowhere - a journey into Pirate Radio" Sue Carpenter. Great. Hey, a little factoid - I was a DJ on a pirate radio station for a while...
	Make Your Own Electric Guitar & Bass - good basic book, a fun read. $15
	3 sets "thin coated" Cleartone electric guitar strings, .010-.046 $10 for all 3
	LaBella double ball Steinberger strings, old stock but Stainless Steel, .009-.046 $8
	Jensen C10Q 8ohm 10" speaker, Made in Italy, new in box $50