All Brubaker guitars start life as rough slabs of wood and are painstakingly machined by hand by master craftsmen.  A combination of construction features work to make a Brubaker unique. Chief among them is the neck joint which a mix of a neck thru and a bolt on which is very labor intensive to make, but in the end, no matter what wood or pickup combinations are used, there is an underlying resonant tone about the instruments that is consistently the same.