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Ordering Instruments:

The following applies to steel string and nylon string guitars

Basic materials and specifications:

• Gabon (Black) Ebony fretboard
• Spanish Cedar neck
• Gotoh tuning machines
• All wood rosette and top purfling, wood binding on the back/sides
• Bone nut and bridge saddle
• Standard shape/weight bridge
• 650mm scale length
  
• Intonation set to standard tension strings
• Satin finish
  
• Hardshell case

Options:

Sound Board (All in stock):

• Canadian Englemann spruce
• European Spruce
  
• Western red cedar
• Canadian Cypress (Yellow Cedar)
  
• Port Orford Cedar
• Redwood
• Sitka Spruce

Back/side woods ** (All in stock):

• Macassar ebony
• Black and White ebony
• Highly figured Oregon Myrtle
• Flamed European Maple
• American Black or Claro Walnut
• American Cherry
• Rosewood - *Brazilian, Indian or Honduran
• Jatoba (Brazilian Cherry)
• Flamed Spanish Cedar (Flamenco)
• Purpleheart
• Granadillo
• Canadian Cypress (Flamenco)

Other options:

• French polish on soundboard only or complete instrument
• Curly Spanish cedar, Flamed Maple, Walnut, Rosewood, Canadian Cypress or other hardwood neck
• Neck laminations in, ebony, maple, rosewood, Vermillion or other contrasting woods
• Macassar Ebony, Black & White Ebony, Texas Ebony, Cocobolo, Wenge or other wood fretboard
• Custom carving on neck heel and peghead
• Sound Port(s)
• Custom marquetry 
• Other scale lengths (640, 660, etc)
  
• Alessi, Rogers, Gotoh, Schaller, Waverly, Rubner, Fustero, Planetary Pegs, Ebony Pegs or other high quality tuning machines
• 7 string models available
• Lattice style bracing with brace-less back
• Elevated fretboard and/or cutaway designs for easier access to upper frets
• Many cutaway styles available
  
• 12 fret and 14 fret to body configurations
  

* Instruments built with Brazilian Rosewood can not be shipped out of the USA without C.I.T.E.S (and 2008 Lacey Amendment) paperwork. This incurs extra costs and  could result in prolonged delays. Hopefully the regulatory agencies involved will clarify these issues soon.

**Please note:** This is a difficult time to be building guitars in the United States. The requirements of the 2008 amendment to the 1910 Lacey (anti-poaching) act, as written, are impossible to meet. The effect is that any who ship any item manufactured from plant or animal materials risk confiscation of the item and a $400,000 fine for each problem discovered in paperwork which by it's very definition is impossible to satisfy. This includes inter and intra state commerce. It is obvious that this puts a bit of a disincentive to ship instruments across state borders.

The instrument building community has been targeted for enforcement of this well intentioned but badly written law. Supplies that were collected for decades have been confiscated with no due process or recourse. While there is some movement towards adding some fairness for certain large US manufacturing companies, the individual Luthiers and small shops remain without protection. It appears that building musical instruments is now a criminal enterprise. Please see http://www.luth.org/cites.htm for further information.

For additional information please contact chuck.morrison@gmail.com