Anyone here with custom guitars?

[Plank_Spanker]

Not custom from a mass producer.....................but custom from a "cottage builder"?

I have one from a guy out of Allentown, PA, and the company is "JD Bluesville". This guitar was built from the ground up to my specs. I gave him free license on the body shape and headstock. This is the axe:




The goodies:

Lindy Fralin singles

SD Pearly Gates at the bridge

Blender pot

LSR roller nut

Locking Schaller tuners

Wilkinson trem

CTS pots, Switchcraft switch, Bumblebee caps

Pearloid binding

Schaller strap locks

Jumbo frets, custom inlays, satin finish neck

It's a bit different..................

[Carlström]

nice guitar you got there



i guess i got atleast 1 guitar that fits in to that category, altough i got two more handbuilt guitars by luthiers they arn't custom as such since they are variations of the luthiers own modells.


Siggi Braun, the raven. before i got it it was sitting in Victor Smolski's studio.
So as you might have guessed from the previous sentence i'm not the original owner and therefor not having had a hand in the specs, but i'm damn happy with it that's for sure.

Body: Mahogany, one piece
Top: Quilted Maple, massive, bookmatched
Neck: Hardmaple, selected
Fretboard: Rosewood
Scale: 650 mm
Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
Hardware: Black Schaller Locking Mechanics, Floyd Rose II Tremolo
Pickups: 2 x Custom-shop harry häussel humbuckers
Electronics: 5-way megaswitch, volume, tone
Color: Raven (Dark blue with a hint of purple in it, transparent)
Finish: 2-K high gloss
Specials: CNS-System, Handselect wood




I got a guitar design of my own all drawn up and pretty much just waiting for the right time to put it in to the hands of a luthier to make my own complete custom all the way from design to specs.