This is a custom guitar I made for a friend and client. It's an advancement in my design, partially hollow body to save weight. The neck is unusually wide because the client is a large man with large hands. It's a patented design featuring carved acrylic with back painted dichroic paint and negative carved insert. The neck is hard maple and Wenge. It's 1 of 1.

I’m so happy this turned out as good as it did. Despite the bad soldering work (which if I’m being honest could be used as a demonstration video for what not to do for electrical engineering) the pickups work and the whole thing looks great. Some of my favorite touches include the hand drawn logo I did on the headstock, as well as the detailing on the pickguard and pickups and such. Thank you all so much for the support, im so happy i could bring this project to life. Also, to the moderators, sorry for not realizing the rules last time and posting just the guitar body. Won’t happen again.

Proud teacher moment.... Feast your eyes on this masterpiece crafted by my Guitar Making student Ben Holgate, under the guidance of me (Steve Toscano of Toscano Guitars) in Sydney Australia.

Incredibly, this is only Ben's second guitar build! He meticulously crafted every element himself, including the intricate rosette and tailpiece, composed of hundreds of half-millimeter dyed sticks. To top it off, Ben applied a hand-finished French polish for a truly stunning result.

Specifications: Back and Sides: Ziricote Soundboard: Western Red Cedar Neck: Mahogany Fingerboard: Ziricote Binding: African Ebony Bridge: Rosewood

My first strat. I don't play, but woodworking is a bit of a hobby for me. I did direct mounted pickups into the rear so that I didn't need to do a pick guard and hide so much of the beautiful grain. The cavity cover is pressure fitted curly maple.

The inspiration for this guitar was from Meatloaf's Wasted Youth song from Bat out of Hell 2. The intro to that song was playing through my head all throughout a previously commissioned reliced tele build, so I knew I had to pay homage.

The blood of the guitar is Chuck Berry red.

I absolutely loved building this guitar.

Just a Squier Strat, but with my own detailing.

My wife doesn’t play guitar, but I build them. She got mad at me for giving them all away and never having one at the house to show off, so I said “come up with the craziest idea you’ve got and we can keep it to show folks”

Every weird, completely impractical idea she had, all into one instrument!

It actually plays great. Hardest part was figuring out how the hell I was going to pull off a moon shaped headstock…

I'm a huge Petrucci/DT fan, and my dream guitar for years has been a Music Man JP15. However, what always held me back on buying one was the bolt-on neck and the price. I therefore decided to build my own with a set-neck and make a vacation out of it.

In 2019 I did a 2-week guitar building course at Crimson Guitars, during which I built the majority of this guitar. Then, life got in the way and it just sat gathering dust in the closet for years while my shame and guilt about it just kept increasing...

A few months ago, however, I finally mustered the time and courage to finish it, and this is the end-result!

If you look hard enough you can still spot some of the rookie mistakes I made along the way, but all-in-all, I'm incredibly happy with how it turned out.

Wood:

• Headstock veneer: Roasted flamed maple (offcut from top)
• Neck: Roasted flamed maple (quartersawn)
• Fretboard: Roasted flamed maple
• Top: Roasted flamed maple (bookmatched)
• Body: African mahogany (1-piece)

I was mildly obsessed with roasted flamed maple at the time...

Parts:

• 24x Jescar 57110 stainless steel frets
• Allied Lutherie FlexStrong Dual-Action Truss Rod
• 2x titanium reinforcement beams
• 6x1mm aluminum tube inlays
• 3D printed cavity covers

Hardware:

• Graphtech ratio tuners
• Paul Eliasson adjustable/intonated brass nut
• Dimarzio Liquifire/Crunchlab magnetic pickups (direct mounted)
• LR Baggs X-bridge (with Red Bishop MAGIK tremolo arm)
• LR Baggs X-bridge piezo saddles
• Graphtech Ghost piezo preamp
• Ernie Ball John Petrucci volume/tone knobs (black)
• Ernie Ball 500k push-push pots
• Ernie Ball (Dimarzio) 3-way output selector
• Ernie Ball (Dimarzio) 3-way pickup selector (with JP7/15 switch board)
• Becos FX micro booster preamp
• KAISH stereo barrel output jack

Finish (natural, no stain):

• Kovax Assilex sanding system
• Birchwood Casey Tru-oil
• Chestnut microcrystalline wax

I think these have to be the coolest inlays - heat and uv light activates them! The build is pretty sweet too

Bastogne Walnut Top SpectraLum Inlays©: (The world's first, pioneering inlay design UV/Heat powered by Patrick Hufschmid.) Custom Laser-Engraved Alumitone Humbuckers One-Piece Quartersawn Sapele Neck & Sipo Body Torlon® 4203 Nut with Intricate Scalloping Extended 666mm (26.2") Scale Length RichLite Fingerboard

A few of the boys in a group photo

I recently finished my first original shape! 5th Capocci guitar in total. Old-growth Venezuelan Mahogany / Indian rosewood / Aluminum !

Ernie Ball/Music Man Mr Horsepower Guitar

Made by a Brazilian Luthier called Matheus Canalli.

Inspired by the aesthetics of the Jasper Nidra Mayones and Balaguer body shape.

A build I've been wanting to do for awhile, really happy with how it turned out.

Top is hand carved figured birdseye maple, body is arbutus, neck is flamed maple, with an ebony fretboard. Fossilized woolly mammoth molar nut and truss rod cover. Rear mounted Seymour duncan alinico II pro bridge and seymour duncan jazz model neck humbuckers. 500k peizo slider pots, three way rotary selector switch, push button coil split ( works in all three positions)

Most people come with a spec sheet. This guy basically said do whatever you want, which is the best thing you can hear. So I stopped thinking about what a client wants and built the thing I’d want to keep. Ash body with a burl maple top, roasted flame maple neck and board. Bare Knuckles underneath, custom covers I made by hand. Hipshot hardware, 7 string.

Finally put it together after about two years of sourcing parts Squier Bass VI Neck, Squier Vintage Modified Baritone Jazzmaster body+Pickguard, Fender Pure Vintage 65 Jazzmaster pickups, Kluson Deluxe tuners, Schaller 3D-6 bridge, brass nut+string tree, Ibanez vintage beehive knobs