Custom Shop
About custom made instruments
A prior factor in achieving quality results are raw materials, the care taken in crafting, and sophistication in design.
The tonal potential of color, range and balance is determined by the way and time tonewoods have been stored. This is a dominating value providing the main characteristics for tone in its pure dynamic form before application of sound amplifying elements.
Well aged and selected tonewoods are used in every Dream Guitar Project custom build instrument. Throughout the years, a large variety of tonewoods is in stock for custom assignments.
Flamenco 'blonde' guitar
top: Canadian red spruce
sides and back: Spanish cypress/rosewood
neck: mahogany/ebony
Custom
According to a large range of stock models of the last decades, the instrument selected by the musician for their personal needs is conceptualized in association with the luthier and built to demands for tone, action and appearance.
60s Höfner / 2002 custom tele... "In a flash of time"
Original shapes
Early 70s till mid-80s
This category is free of limits concerning appearance and tonal properties. The design inspired either by the luthier or the musician, is fine tuned by the luthier in order to fulfill those demands and appropriately selecting raw materials and hardware.
The difference it makes
What characterises the difference between a production instrument and a custom built one?
Selection of the raw materials and hardware, the care and time taken in craftmanship, sophistication in design and good finish application. This assures the instrument will only improve in the progress of time. The costs for this is always a factor.
...What's the key, Mick?
