Paul Stanley/KISS, Soul Station

  Carlino Custom Paul Stanley Strap Endorser, Rhinestone Guitar as well as costume pieces, belt, boots

Paul Stanley born Jan 20,1952, one of the original founding members and driving force behind the rock band KISS. Formed in early 1972, with Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, you'd be hard pressed to find any guitarist who doesn't have KISS in their past somewhere. The Alive album put them over the top and they soon became the biggest band in the world. 40 plus years later, they're still going strong, with a European tour starting in May across 12 countries and then returning to the American Stages shortly there after. Paul will be wearing painstakingly designed custom straps with exacting specifications made just for him in a couple of different styles. In the pic shown he's wearing one of them, his most seen and worn design. He's also using the Carlino Impulse, possibly my most aggressive design and he said it, like I designed it..."This guitar has a bit of most every guitar I've played all in one". Called the Impulse, I drew it on an impulse one night. Perfectly balanced and sits on your body at 2 oclock, as you see here. No neck dive, perfect balance and belts out an enormous tone. Classic construction with a sapele mahogany body and neck, a 5/16" solid maple top and an ebony fingerboard. 

     This is probably something I'll be proud of for the rest of my life. Just goes to prove, if you work hard for things, keep your chin up an don't let others who are jealous of you, try to bring you down, and the fact that you excelled in areas that they failed in, your dreams really do come true. Special thanks to Evan Stanley, Pauls son and Fran Stueber, Paul's guitar tech for the past 12 years for making this happen in all respects. More good stuff to come, stay tuned....

<<<Update 04/21/2017: Just finished doing a Rhinestone job on one fo Paul's Stage guitars. Came out excellent with a perfect pattern. He's playing it tonight with my straps I made him at a Vegas Casino Show.

Covered with authentic Swarovski Austrian Crystal Rhinestones, it was very carefully routed to accept about 2600 stones in a pleasing looking pattern. special attention to the hardware, pickups, knob placement etc, had to be carefully planned out for a lasting and eventful look. Coming soon, another special guitar coming as well. There are also three different guitar straps Paul will be using on tour that I made and they are made to his exacting specifications. These are available as well.  Kiss is touring Europe beginning of May and joining them will be his son Evan's band The Dives in all of the UK shows. Great opportunity for them and only fitting that he open for his dad's band.

 Step Forward into 2019, the End of the Road Tour with KISS, I now supply Paul with his Rhinestone guitars, guitar straps, Costume, Belt and boots, Tommy Thayers Top of Costume Cowl area and belt and Guitar straps and Gene Simmons bass straps as well. A hell of a jump if you ask me. Saw them at the Boston Garden March 26, 2019 and the show was phenominal, spent about 4 hours back stage, got to see Paul and Tommy and Eric, no Gene though, :(.

 The newest guitar is the Gold Rhinestone and it looks phenominal live and you can purchase on of these from Paul at www.paulstanleyguitars.com