The guitar should be an Ares SC Classic but with two P90 pickups. He wanted the color to be yellow with a black pickguard and chrome hardware. A simple but nice guitar. I really liked the idea and we talked details a couple of times. He wanted the name of the guitar to be "Ares SC Special".
One evening Tom called me at 8 a clock. We talked about guitars and he was very enthusiastic about the guitar I was making for him. We agreed about the schedule and the guitar should be ready around Christmas. The morning after I got an email from Toms sisters son telling that Tom had passed away 10 a clock yesterday evening after a heart attack.
I was so in chock after that email. It was only a few hours since I talked to him over the phone. I never met Tom personally but I talked to him several times. After a couple of weeks I decided to make the guitar ready anyway to honor a great guitar guy and I will have this guitar as a standard item in my product line.
Springtime 2011 I finally put the guitar together. I find the guitar so good to play. The sound is so sweet and fat and to play blues or rock with it doesn't matter, it will tell the audience the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. RIP Tom.
