Colfax Guitar SHop

Hard Rock Cafe Guitar Bars

In 1986 I built two guitar bars for the Hard Rock Café. The one in this picture is patterned after a Stratocaster and the Other one was like a Les Paul Custom. Every detail was duplicated in a 10 to 1 scale including the knobs, pickups, inlays, tuning posts and frets. These parts were mostly machined from solid brass.
	The Les Paul was built on the patio. Here you can see the headstock portion with brass tuning posts, truss rod cover, Gibson logo, and beer tapper.
On the inside we built a Strat style guitar. Here you can see the knobs and pickups as well as the three tone sunburst finish. Both guitar bars were covered with 15 gallons of clear urethane finish over the sunburst and black paint job
	Here at the headstock of the Strat style bar we can see the brass tuning posts and frets. The Hard rock was unable to get Fender’s permission to use their logo which explains why it says Kramer. At the time Kramer was making a Strat copy.