Weymann Guitars Proprietary Crystal Mahogany 

By Dan Stein 

 

Jackie Smith, the legendary Memphis Blues session musician, tells it like a fairy tale:

 

"I heard whispers of a guitar.  I heard the people talking.  These prototypes, they floating around the scenes - just ask King". 

 

It took Jackie decades, but in 2018 - he found it in a temperature controlled vault, its body a striking piece of dark wood with a subtle, shimmering grain he was told had a crystalline composition. 

 

"It all sounds like science fiction I said".  

 

He plugged the guitar into a Twin Reverb.  Nothing.   No hum, no hiss, no output at all.   With 50 years of playing under his belt, Jackie slapped his palm to his face, and began to roll the volume knob back up, from who ever played it last.   He chuckled at his error.   

 

The first chord he struck was a shock to his system.  The sustain didn't just last; it throbbed, lingering for seconds longer than anything he could remember. The sound was dense and articulate, a direct result of that strange, hybridized mahogany known as "Crystal Mahogany" - a proprietary wood exclusive to Weymann. 

 

But the guitar’s true eccentricity lay in its feel. The neck was a beast—thick, with an almost flat 20-degree radius. It wasn't comfortable in the conventional sense; it demanded a specific, intentional style of playing. Yet, once his hands adapted, Jack found a speed and precision he’d never achieved before. The unique neck joint seemed to channel every vibration directly into the core of the instrument.

 

It was a guitar of brilliant, stubborn contrasts: awkward at first, but fast.  Rare, yet utilitarian in its engineering.  It was special because it refused to compromise, a forgotten masterpiece built on a forgotten wood, offering a tone that was truly, definitively its own.  Jackie set the Weymann Model A Solid Body Electric back onto the stand, took a few steps back, never losing eye contact with the instrument, and smiled.