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Any recommendations for shops in Canada or the States where you can give them the specs of a guitar you want and they'll whip it up for you? I want to get a Jazzmaster made for me and I want to get to choose the colours etc...

Danche Guitars in Oak Park Ill her's a link.
http://www.dancheguitars.com/
He primarily builds classical and jazz guitars but he's also built strat type guitars, they are all amazing. You can take a class with him where he will teach you how to hand make a guitar, it costs $3,000 but you get to custom build your own guitar.

http://prestonguitars.com/

Made in Wisconsin.....

http://www.dambrosioguitars.com/index.php

Might be overkill, though...

I've heard good things about the Guitar Mill in the US.

Liberatore, they where building guitar and bass for Voivod.
http://www.liberatoreguitars.com/

And I'm not sure, but maybe Demerse is doing custom work:
http://www.demersguitars.com/home_en.htm

I never tried any of them.

I've heard good things about Capsule Music in Toronto, also says they share a new shop in Kitchener/Waterloo (West?). Anyway, head to the retail section of the link and look at guitar stock, they have a couple Capsule JMs for sale but I think they'll do custom specs/requests, made to order???

http://www.capsulemusic.com/

Dennis Fano makes some amazing JM style guitars too, not sure on price or custom options, but I played one recently and it was absolutely top notch!

http://www.fanoguitars.com/

EGC will make you an aluminum Jazzy. They did it before.

http://www.crestonguitars.com/
these can get a little girlly but i played a tele he had at killer vintage in st louis and it was pretty rad.

Holy Schnikes wrote:I've heard good things about Capsule Music in Toronto, also says they share a new shop in Kitchener/Waterloo (West?). Anyway, head to the retail section of the link and look at guitar stock, they have a couple Capsule JMs for sale but I think they'll do custom specs/requests, made to order???

http://www.capsulemusic.com/

Dennis Fano makes some amazing JM style guitars too, not sure on price or custom options, but I played one recently and it was absolutely top notch!

http://www.fanoguitars.com/

+1 on Fano

Elliott guitars look nice too.
http://www.elliottguitarsnc.com

But if you have it build in the US, it will probably cost you a lot in custom fee.



I would like to have one of those or the Fano Jazzmaster type of guitar.

Let us know about your devloppement and specs... I like custom guitar (wish I have one).

User "Superlead" on TGP will spec out, paint, relic (or not relic) any Fender style guitar for $999. All the parts are USAG (?) licensed, etc. I've exchanged a few PMs with him and is super helpful/responsive. Some day I will pull the trigger on a Superlead Tele. I've seen him do JMs. Also check over at Offsetguitars.com. You might get some play there as well.

bobloblah wrote:http://www.crestonguitars.com/
these can get a little girlly but i played a tele he had at killer vintage in st louis and it was pretty rad.

Checked this place out and fell in love with this guitar:




That neck is sex.

mathias wrote:That neck is sex.

Are you on OSG bud? I lurk over there sometimes and they seem like pretty cool dudes who know how to build a jazzy. Plus, I bet you could work out a trade!
And there's probably a couple resident ILFers who could whip up something for you.

Thanks for all the tips, guys, you sure know lots of cool places to have guitars built! The OSG tips are great, I wasn't familiar with that place at all.

I went with Guitar Mill/Mario Martin Guitars.. he's going to make me a cool black Jazzmaster. I want one that looks like the black Japanese hollow body JM but I don't want a hollow body. I wouldn't normally be so picky but I'm turning 35 next week so I get a special treat