Custom Handmade  Guitars by: Tad Brown Guitars
 
Specs & Pricing
 

This is a general example of typical choices. All guitars will be built to clients exact specifications. Anything is possible. Please ask about anything you are not sure of as input is welcomed.

 
Semi-hollow $5000+
 
Jazz - 15"-$5000+, 16"-$6000+, 17"-$7000+
Jazz and blues
- Warm woody acoustic tone; feedback resistant for moderate Volume
  Bebop/jazz
- Rich smooth tone & response
Semi-hollow arch top acoustic electric   Arch top acoustic electric
  • Carved spruce top with or without f-holes
  • Hollow routed body of Honduras Mahogany
  • Varying degrees of hollow from all hollow with braced top, to bridge post, to solid core designs
  • Arch top, or Les Paul style bridge & tailpiece
  • Choice of pickups
  • Lightweight Sperzel tuners
  • Matching hardwood pick guard, bridge, tailpiece, truss cap, headstock plate, fingerboard
 
  • Carved spruce top with parallel or X style bracing and custom f holes
  • Bent sides with a carved back
  • Choice of pickups
  • Lightweight Sperzel tuners
  • Ebony or rosewood accessories. Matching hardwood pick guard, bridge, tailpiece, truss cap, headstock plate, fingerboard Hardwood or ivoroid binding
Flat Top Acoustic - $4000.00+
 
Extras
Classical, bluegrass, blues, jazz, rock
- Woody tone and delicate response
  Some common additions. Other special requests are welcomed.
Acoustic fingerstyle, lightweight cannon, flat top acoustic electric   Options:
  • Tuned spruce top
  • Choice of woods, pickup, and body style
  • Light weight Sperzel tuners
  • Polished bone nut & saddle
 
  • Abalone purflings - $800.00
  • Brazilian rosewood, African blackwood and other rare back & sides add $500 - $1,000+
  • Headstock & fingerboard inlays - refer to priced examples
  • Sunburst or multi-tone finish add $500.00
  • Costs of woods are subject to availability and market value.
  • Prices above are base price - additions, options and custom work may be extra.
  • Typical woods and parts for every detail not listed are assumed of the highest quality.
  • Wood combinations are merely suggested preferences of the builder.
  • Any substitutions of the buyer are welcome. Most special requests can be accommodated without significant price increases.
  • All guitars are finished with McFadden's nitrocellulose lacquer.
  • Tad's preferred woods are: Sitka and Engelmann spruce, cocobolo, Brazilian rosewood, Indian rosewood, Honduras mahogany, Gaboon ebony, African blackwood, Maccassar ebony, koa, ziricote, and maple.
 
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