URWA Custom Coop Guitar Pre-Order
This Is URWA (Pronounced Your Way) We proudly manufacture this high-quality, yet affordable guitar in Youngstown, Ohio
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Rescue T’s are on the Scene
Introducing the new Coop Rescue – T line of guitars. Rescue T’s are the first models we’ve built with the Rescued Wood we mentioned in another post. These Rescue T-style guitars are built in quantities of twelve with the gnarliest knotty-pine we can find in each load of lumber we process. The hardness of pine…
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Rescued Wood
Rescued Wood– Wood that we source and process from logs to final dimensions for the use in guitar building. Logs that would otherwise end up in landfills are turned into something special! Our neighbors at the facility where we manufacture Coop Guitars, are Arborists and tree removers. Very often, our neighbors return from the…
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New Standard Model Based On Nick’s Guitar
We were introduced to Nick Jaffe back in 2011. Nick creates awesome you-tube demos under the name JustNickMusic. Nick’s videos range from product demos (musical instrument related) to lessons, to musical collaborations, to interesting subjects of history. For most of his product demos, Nick uses one of two custom Coop guitars that he special ordered…
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Coop Guitars’ Headstock
A quick view of the new Coop Headstock design. This shape will be used on all Coop bolt-on guitars and basses.
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ContempT Proto-type
This is the proto-type Flagship Coop bolt-on neck guitar. Sapele back with a bent flamed Maple top. This is a thin-line guitar with arm and belly contours. A contemporary thin-line, thus the name ContempT
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Demo Videos
coming soon…
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The New Coop Prototype is officially named Coop d’etat!
. Coop 2 (internal production name only) specifications: -Swamp Ash body and neck construction -Neck through design with two way truss rod and reinforcing Carbon bars -Heelless neck design for full access to end of fingerboard -Neck and body produced from same piece of Ash -Rosewood fingerboard with 12″ radius and 22 jumbo frets -24.562″…
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Tree Bar Guitar
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Far Cry From A Coop!
Since officially starting this business, I’ve been asked countless times why I chose the name Coop Guitars. Most people that ask about the name simply assume my last is name is Cooper, and that I’ve abbreviated my name to form the business name. As a matter of fact, a recent wood order that was delivered…
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Curves, contours, bumps and pin holes! Attention to details.
Deep “belly” and “arm” contours really make the difference between a great replica and an average one. The router bump in the cutaway of my T-style bodies is a subtle feature that is over looked by other makers. It’s no secret that paint fades and discolors over the years. Well used vintage guitars…
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Same build methods as used by Fender® in the 50’s and 60’s
So how are my re-pro guitars different than my competitor’s? First off, I don’t just buy finished bodies and necks and throw a quick paint job on them. I use methods of construction that are very similar to what was used by Fender® in the ‘50s and ‘60s. My pneumatic pin router is smaller than…
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Templates cut from real, original examples of the guitars I’m replicating.
Other manufacturers of bodies and necks claim to have gotten their specs directly from vintage guitars, but I actually used vintage Fender® guitars to cut my templates. For example, my ’56 Strat® template was constructed by using an original 1956 Strat® as a template. I disassembled my ’56 and then used the body and neck…
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Accurate and consistent contours are created by some ingenious machines!
To make sure that the arm and belly contours are accurate to original spec guitars, I designed and created a three axis duplicating router that is better suited to this kind of work than any other routing duplicator on the market. Here again, real vintage guitars were used as templates. To define my neck profiles, a similar process…
