PAULA 

The PAULA is my impression of an old well-known design, updated to better playability and a much wider range of sounds. Note the "slick heel" neck-body joint, a dovetail connection like the old lutes have from the 16th century. The body features special tap-tuned resonance areas to support harmonics and attack. "TheBrain" passive circuit and split options are standard, as well as a medium scale. FloydRose equipped PAULAs come with a long scale.   NEIL SCHON`S  PAULA   this was the second Paula I made with a FloydRose tremolo. The construction is very different from the usual way. When you fit a FR tremolo to a LesPaul what happens is you´re left with a big hole straight through the body where the bridge pickup is. So I changed the neck angle to lower the tremolo and keep the static solid and used a long scale . Gibson is now making a sort of copy of this guitar. Click here for a testreview (german), click here for Neil´s guitars on his homepage. Click on the picture to supersize                  watch Neil playing his PAULA here  

 

  PAULA "Rio"   I call this a "century-top". Maple with this structure is very, very rare. Made for Nelson F. Ferrer (Brooklyn N.Y.), medium scale click on the picture to supersize           PAULA old english brown

 

made for Ken Hensley, body made of very old stock flower mahagony, flamed maple top.

Fretboard macassar ebony

                                        PAULA dots   the 2nd guitar for Ken Hensley, click on the picture to supersize  

    PAULA corinna

caribien blueburst, feat. a very rare bubble top

     

  PAULA dots   owned by Roland Grapow, click on the picture to supersize   Roland Grapow       PAULA

owned by Nelson F. Ferrer (Brooklyn N.Y.), vintage sunburst, mahagony, flamed maple top,

PAF 93 and PAF 84         watch Nelson soundchecking a PAULA here          PAULA corinna caribien blueburst, corinna body and neck, ebony fretboard, click on the picture to supersize         early PAULA   Abalony crown inlays, click on the picture to supersize       early PAULA tremolo    This was the first PAULA  I made in 1990 with a FloydRose tremolo, shortscale, trad. neck-joint and headstock                 more examples