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Comesect Lee

DaShtick guitars will open whole new avenues of musical enjoyment for you, I have a fret less and a fretted shtick made for me a few years back, and they still retain all their glory/harmonics...super fun...extraordinary craftsmanship...customize how ever you wish, I use mine with fuzz and different effects pedals, sounds great...I definitely recommend contacting the man for a custom companion of your own, nothing better than a personalized instrument that you feel connected with. highly recommended.

Comesect Lee

Dom Bruneau (Lefty Dom)

As a musician and guitar builder, I told my wife that the only guitar I would like to own would be a DaShtick Guitar. For my birthday, she offered one to me. I love it. First of all, it's a left-handed instrument, unique and specially designed for me. I love its unique shape and it sounds really great. The flat pickup gives an emergent sound in a mix. Very interesting in blues (both with fingers and slide playing)

Dom Bruneau (Lefty Dom)

Edward Rivas

That is the most incredible sounding instrument that I have heard in a long time. This sounds totally different and new to me. It is incredibly different and unique. I could listen to that all night long.

Edward Rivas

MC Fox

I just love sliding up those sticks! They yield real dirty feel.

MC Fox

Mike Clifton

I wanted to write a quick review of an instrument DaShtick built for me. This is a baritone mountain dulcimer - I mostly play it in my lap, but sometimes tilt it away from me into a guitar-like position. This is really a piece of art that happens to play music as well. I gave them some preferences like color and the wolf's head, but mostly left the details up to DaShtick. I knew they did good work and trusted them to make something great. And that they did! DaShtick are responsive to questions and easy to work with. These instruments look so good, I wonder if one ever breaks during construction - maybe they should sell those as wall art? I'm enjoying this a lot - thanks DaShtick!

Mike Clifton

Piotr Kalachyn

DaShtick hurley guitars are spell-charged to wed the ethnic and electric worlds. Playing one is a very sensual experience: bend it in for a free fall a couple of tones down or wiggle a few degrees around your hip or belly for a yearning vibrato. Still discovering the aural magic behind their eye-catching elegance.

Piotr Kalachyn

Robert Sands

Just want to say how happy I am that I had you build me a 3 string DaShtick/Diddley Bow. It was just the inspiration needed as I started to create tracks for the upcoming season of the TV show Moonshiners. The atmosphere and vibe that this instrument puts out was perfect for putting viewers in the Appalachian Mountains, hiding from the law and making illegal booze. Whether I used it with a bottleneck slide or on my lap with a steel it performed hugely. This beast goes from rich metallic plucky sounds to round fat almost bass guitar notes just by moving the tone control abit. Very responsive tone control you‘ve got going on. And of course it looks gorgeous as well, which never hurts. Going to be using it on some of the other shows I score as well. It’s so darn primal sounding - instant tension! Amazing ax!!!

Robert Sands

Tim Leeuwenburg

Quite simply the best - picked one of these beauties up last time in Ireland and brought back to Australia. Brilliant

Tim Leeuwenburg

Tyrian Ulfingarđ

I can fully recommend this shop, the customer service was great, and Robert the owner and luthier is a master in his craft and has made some very beautiful pieces, he is also lovely to talk to and understood the requests perfectly, the instrument I ordered is a 4-course dulcimer and I haven't skipped a single day to play it.

Tyrian Ulfingarđ

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