Custom Guitars

  • T Style guitar with a Big Leaf Maple top on a solid Mahogany back. Tortoise appointments with a neck the customer supplied. This one came out beautiful!
  • The pictures didn’t quite do the gloss justice…
  • The Rio Grande Charlie Christian pickups are insane! It’s a tone monster!
  • Big Leaf Maple top with sweet popped flame!
  • Mahogany Back. This guitar is slightly thinner than many t-style bodies to make comfortable for client.
  • The tortoise binding came out like candy!
  • The traditional 3 brass saddles have separate adjustability for intonation on each string!
Newest Custom JWHandcrafted Build Delivered Jan 2020!
  • An early JWHandcrafted build This one has been one of Jack’s main gigging guitars for years!
  • 2 Seymour Duncan ’59 model pickups and a center P-90, a push/pull switch makes it a 7 way switching system.
Early custom build for Crazy Jane Records
  • This one is a sweet local Myrtle top on a 5 piece back of Mahogany, Maple, and Purpleheart
  • Waiting for sanding in between finish coats showing off the added purple-moto binding.
On the bench… the purple one….
  • A center wedge of Koa with Cherry, and Maple wings on a one piece Walnut back
  • The new head stock logo before overspraying
  • This one is straight candy….
On the bench. Master Caster
  • Natural aging done carefully with all of the right tools
  • The nitrocellulose finish was checked to give it that vintage vibe
A blue guitar, with a very carefully done relic.
  • Re-sawing some Purpleheart with a beautiful sapwood flame
  • I think that my band saw head looks like Johnny 5 from ‘Short Circuit’ drowning in quicksand….
  • Bookmatched top will be jointed for a perfect seam
  • After jointing the seam and glueing it up
  • Big Leaf Maple top
  • Makore top for an F-hole guitar
  • A pile of wood lies in wait
  • Purpleheart T-style body roughed out
  • Mahogany Walnut and Flame Maple top….Ash back roughed out
  • Big leaf T-style roughed out
  • The smallest one of the 4 router tables we keep setup for tasks
  • Makore F-hole guitar….
  • Roughed out cavities for the F-hole Makore over Ash
  • You can NEVER have enough clamps
Here are some in process pics for some of our T-style guitars we are completing for retail stocking.
We also make small batch custom wooden picks. These were made for a client from a favorite childhood tree that had been cut down.

Contact us today to order your own custom JWHandcrafted instrument. Or to inquire about what’s currently in stock and waiting for an excellent home…