HENMAN GUITARS

INSTRUMENTS

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HENMAN GUITARS ARE HAND BUILT TO ORDER FROM OUR OPTIONS MENU.

AVERAGE BUILD TIME IS 4-6 WEEKS.
WE STAND BY OUR CRAFTSMANSHIP - ALL GUITARS ARE GUARANTEED.
CALL FOR PRICING - INCLUDES SOFT CASE AND SET OF TOOLS

50% DEPOSIT REQUIRED TO START THE CUSTOM BUILD.

FOR THOSE WHO DEMAND INSTANT GRATIFICATION, A SMALL NUMBER OF GUITARS MAY ALSO BE AVAILABLE – CHECK OUR AVAILABILITY PAGE.

FOR ORDERS CALL 310-430-2794
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MEDIA OF THE ‘NEW ORIGINALS’

MODS ON TOUR WITH GARBAGE
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ROCKA IN THE STUDIO WITH GARBAGE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIwCBI61po

MEDIA OF THE ‘FIRST’ ORIGINALS BELOW

MAGAZINES - CLICK TO VIEW

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THE NEXT GENERATION OF OUR INSTRUMENTS ‘THE NEW ORIGINALS’ ARE DOING WELL.

Henman Guitars offers our three original signature design models with many more options. All new original finishes and many more choices. Improved engineering. Chambered bodies. Interchangeable pickups system. New bridge systems. Improved neck and body contours. Reduced weight, all metal back plates eliminated. Custom aluminum hardware. And of course, complete rebranding.

The S1 is rebranded as the ‘ROCKA’. The S2 is rebranded as the ‘MOD’. The B4 is rebranded as the ‘ROLLA’.

The ROLLA has also been given a new bridge system, custom made pickups with a piezo option, a reduction in weight and will also be available in a fretless version.

After many months of work re-engineering and examining our instruments, we believe it’s truly appropriate to dub this next generation as ‘the NEW ORIGINALS’.

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Graham HenmanGRAHAM HENMAN
CO-FOUNDER/OWNER AND DESIGNER
- THE GURU

GRAHAM IS A FILM MAKER AT HEART. HE HAS A PRODUCTION COMPANY IN LOS ANGELES - http://www.henmanfilms.com. HE ALSO HAD HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM, ‘BONE IN THE THROAT’, WORLD PREMIERE AT SXSW. IN REALITY HE IS A MINIMALIST, BE IT IN ART OR LIFESTYLE. HE IS THE MEMBER OF THE TEAM WITH THE CONTROLLED STAMINA AND UNENDING ABILITY TO GET THINGS DONE. HE IS FAMOUS FOR BEING THE QUIET IN THE EYE OF THE STORM AND HIS BEST IDEAS MATERIALIZE WHEN HE’S BACKED INTO A CORNER. IN HIS CASE, HIS BARK IS VERY OFTEN AS BAD AS HIS BITE.

GRAHAM STARTED HIS CAREER AS A PHOTOGRAPHER IN ENGLAND AND THEN MOVED TO THE STATES TO WORK WITH BIGGER NAMES AND BIGGER BUDGETS. HE SOON FOUND HIMSELF CATAPULTED INTO THE GLAMOROUS WORLD OF MUSIC VIDEOS AND HIGH END GLOSSY COMMERCIALS. HIS CLIENT LIST READS LIKE A WHO’S WHO OF THE LARGEST GLOBAL ADVERTISERS. GRAHAM HAS DIRECTED MANY FAMOUS NAMES FOR VARIOUS BRANDS OVER THE YEARS BUT TWO NAMES IN PARTICULAR STAND WAY OUT. MILES DAVIS AND ANDY WARHOL. MILES FOR HONDA SCOOTERS AND ANDY FOR DIET COKE. BOTH THESE EVENTS WERE THE ONLY TIME THESE ICONS EVER STEPPED IN FRONT OF A CAMERA TO SHOOT A COMMERCIAL. GRAHAM STILL HAS SIGNED SOUP CANS FROM ANDY AND DRAWINGS DONE BY MILES IN HIS HOME.

GRAHAM ALSO SHOT RINGO STARR FOR DISCOVER CARD.

GRAHAM HAS NOW FOUND A NEW PASSION. HE WORKED CLOSELY WITH RICK TURNER TO DESIGN AND CREATE A NEW BREED OF GUITARS. GUITARS THAT WOULD BE SEXY, MINIMALISTIC AND MODERN. IT WAS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING AND A HUGE LEARNING CURVE BUT THE END RESULTS ARE SOMETHING GRAHAM IS SUPREMELY PROUD OF.

HE THEN PICKED UP HIS STILL CAMERA AND WENT BACK TO HIS ROOTS TO CREATE AN OUTSTANDING IMAGE BRANDING CAMPAIGN FOR HENMAN GUITARS.

WE MAKE SUPERB, MINIMALISTIC, HAND CRAFTED MASTERPIECES, BUILT ENTIRELY FROM THE FINEST TONAL MATERIALS IN THE WORLD. PERFECT FOR MASTER GUITARISTS, TONE JUNKIES AND IMAGE CONSCIOUS CONNOISSEURS EVERYWHERE. PROUDLY, WE GIVE YOU…

HENMAN GUITARS

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NEXT GENERATION ‘THE NEW ORIGINALS’

MASTER LUTHIER PAT WILKINS AND HIS TALENTED TEAM BUILDING ALL HENMAN INSTRUMENTS

HANDCRAFTED MASTERPIECES
GUITARS FOR THE NEW GENERATION

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CLASS ACT AND MASTER LUTHIER
- the thinker

Rick Turner engineered and quality controlled the building of all Henman guitars and was a luthier longer than he cared to remember, having built a dulcimer-like instrument out of balsa at age 10.

In high school, he started to hunt down vintage instruments in New England antique shops starting with a Fairbanks and Cole banjo which he refinished and restored. Winding up at Boston University in the early 1960s, Rick decided that a guitar repair apprenticeship beat sitting in a 500 seat lecture hall, and so he dropped out of academia and into the world of folk music and instrument repair, eventually landing the lead acoustic guitar spot with Canadian’s Ian and Sylvia with whom he toured and recorded. After a stint in a rock band, AutoSalvage, Rick moved to California and decided upon a career in electric lutherie.

He brought instrument and pickup making skills into the strange brew that became Alembic, Inc., making guitars and basses for the leading figures in West Coast music, then founded Rick Turner Guitars in 1978 to make the Model 1 guitar now most closely associated with Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac. Twists and turns in the road took Rick through a period of designing furniture and running cabinet shops, and then back to guitars, working first for Gibson, then running the repair shop at Westwood Music in LA, and finally setting up his own shop again in Topanga Canyon and then Santa Cruz where he and a team of three luthiers build many styles of instruments.
http://www.renaissanceguitars.com

Rick’s passions cover the range from traditional acoustic guitar and ukes to the most modern electric guitar and bass designs. That eclecticism extends even to his building techniques which go from using hot hide glue in acoustic instruments to carving parts on a computer operated routing machine. He is equally comfortable with wood or wires, acoustic instruments or electric. His instruments are in the hands of many of the world’s top folk, rock, and jazz musicians, and his work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA, and one of his earliest guitars will be shown at the Museum of Art and Design in New York.

Sadly, Rick is no longer with us and we dearly miss his professionalism, craftsmanship, friendship and fine sense of humor. R.I.P. my brother.

Entering into the next phase of the HENMAN GUITARS journey is the equally talented and superbly qualified PAT WILKINS. Pat will be carrying on where Rick left off, essentially continuing the ROCKA and MOD lines and bringing the ROLLA bass line into full production.