Suhr Custom Shop Modern – “Tone Island Royale in Bahama Blue”
 
Welcome to the island. Population: You, this guitar, and every note you’re about to launch into the stratosphere. The Suhr Custom Shop Modern in Bahama Blue is what happens when a guitar gets invited to a private beach club for demigods and refuses to wear anything but quilted maple.
 
This is not a metaphor. This guitar actually radiates like it’s made of tidal energy and smug confidence. It doesn’t whisper—it glistens with the intensity of a crystal lagoon under stage lights.
 
Here’s what’s cooking under the coconut palms:
 
Body: 2-piece alder with a quilt maple top so wavy it qualifies as oceanfront property.
Finish: Bahama Blue. It's like someone dipped tone into a tropical reef and gave it a passport.
Neck: Roasted maple. Roasted. Not toasted. There’s a difference, and that difference is Suhr-level luxury.
Fingerboard: Ebony, smooth and fast like a jet ski doing 90 through your mix.
Frets: 24 stainless steel jumbo frets. Shred lines so clean you’ll feel obligated to name each solo.
Pickups: Suhr SSV (neck) and SSH+ (bridge), both in parchment. These aren’t pickups—they’re artillery wrapped in elegance.
Switching: 5-way blade with a push-push control for parallel bridge tones. It can go from fluid glassy leads to tight punchy rhythm like it owns both modes of the tide.
Bridge: Gotoh 510 two-post with solid saddles and a steel block. Smooth as surf wax, stable as a coral reef.
Hardware: Chrome, because this isn’t a goth beach. It’s a full-spectrum tone retreat.
Case: Hardshell. Black. Plush. It looks like a velvet lounge in a Bond villain’s cabana.
 
Nothing about this is subtle. This is boutique California craftsmanship wearing a tourist shirt made of fire and clarity. It’s built in Lake Elsinore, CA, but it sounds like it was forged in a volcano off Maui, and it shows up in your life like a seaplane full of riffs.
 
It’s mint. It’s loud. It’s beautiful. And if you’re lucky, it might just let you take it to your next gig, studio, or offshore tax haven of tone.