


This is based on the guitar that Trey Anastasio plays, and is a wholly unique guitar. It’s geared toward the jam musician because of its tonal diversity and characteristics. I'm selling a 2016 Phred Dockstar Koa guitar. It is a routed-out hollow body guitar with set neck construction, 24 frets, 25.5” scale length, and two humbucker pickups with a built-in pre-amp and an on-board effects loop (OBEL). Our most popular model is the Ernesto VH3 model. It is fully hollow which makes it super light and it has the most controllable beautiful sustain I personally have heard on a guitar (besides a languedoc) but it's pretty darn close. RELATED: Read Performer’s review of the Phred Ernesto VH3 Guitar Most Popular Models That’s how PHRED Instruments got started in 2011, and interest in the guitars themselves began to spread. The PHRED instruments DockStar Koa guitar features a dual humbucker setup, with discrete split coil switches and a 3-way pickup toggle for 8 different tone. With continued fascination, it was still years after that I started searching for another custom guitar builder, this time overseas. Inspired by jam bands similar to Phish, The Grateful Dead and String Cheese Incident, as well as guitar players Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Trey Anastasio, Steve Kimock, and Carlos Santana. That guitar ended up being very costly, but watching a guitar take shape from blocks of wood was truly a magical experience. Tribute Guitars and Custom Guitar Designs. I had been modding off-the-shelf electric guitars for personal use, and years before PHRED Instruments, I had asked a local luthier to work with me on designing a custom guitar from the ground up. It is the DockStar's file-sharing and remote access features, combined with how easy it is to use, that truly makes the DockStar such a compelling product. In this installment of “Meet Your Maker,” Performer catches up with Freddy Rose of Phred Instruments to chat about how he began making guitars and some of the features on his most popular models.
