I buy a lot of highly-figured hardwoods for my Custom Guitar Shop. It’s sometimes very hard to look at a piece and know how it will look after a finish of some kind has been applied. The customers who buy my unfinished Custom Guitar Bodies often can’t tell how figured the top wood really is [...]
Steve Vaughn from Ontario Built this beautiful custom guitar based on a flamed maple custom guitar body from The Inventing Shed. Vedder Mountain Hardwoods supplied the bookmatched top set, Steve did a nice job with this!
Stan
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The top Custom Guitar Body is a Wolfgang shape routed for a tremolo tailpiece, nice quilted spalted maple top.
The second picture is a Custom Telecaster from Corrina with an Alder back and a Padouk accent strip.
Here’s another photo sent to me by a client. This was a custom order built to the client’s specs. The body is one-piece Mahogany with one of Christina and Mike’s Spalted Maple tops. The client did the finish work and final assembly himself.
Andrew is a talented musician and experienced guitar builder from the Minneapolis area. You can [...]
Hello fellow wood-peeps!
Thanks to the folks at Vedder Mountain Hardwoods for providing us with this forum. I’m looking forward to sharing and learning from all the talented people who will surely flock here…I think I smell sawdust already…
Stan
