♥ To make a custom guitar or ukulele, we first work with you to design an instrument fit to your size, your style, your personality and your pocket book.  You choose everything about the instrument – shape and size, woods, inlays, rosette, bridge, tail wedge, etc.  You can be involved in as much or as little of the design process as you’d like.  At this point, a final cost is agreed upon and a $500 non-refundable deposit is required which we use to purchase materials.

♥ Next, the building process begins.  It takes 3 to 6 months to build an instrument (120 to 200 hours of actual work) depending on how intricate the design.  We communicate regularly with you sending photos and questions to make sure your instrument is turning out the way you want. We’ll meet in person a few times so you can see and feel how it is turning out.  The balance of payment is due upon final delivery.

♥ Every Resonance Guitars instrument we build comes with a case, a sound-hole humidifier and a 7-year warranty.  It is built at 35% humidity in Colorado for Coloradans.  We use only solid woods, bone nuts and saddles and real shell for inlays.

♥ Please visit the “Custom Process” page for details on getting started with your own creation.

♥ As an example, this guitar is our first custom build – a “non-traditional” nylon-stringed classical guitar we call “A Bear Wanders Through”.  Unlike a traditional classical guitar, this one has a cut-away and fret board markers, the fret board is radiused and the nut is only 1 7/8″ wide.  It is, essentially, a classical guitar designed for a steel-stringed player.  The top is Engelmann Spruce.  The back and sides are East Indian Rosewood.  The headstock, rosette, tail wedge, and heel cap are all walnut.  The bear tracks, fret dots and perfling is paua abalone.  Black buffalo horn nut and strap buttons along with ebony tuner knobs complete the creation.  The finish is a high gloss uv finish.

For other examples and ideas, visit our Gallery.