Hand-carved Custom T-style Thinline Flametop

• Alder body with resonant chambers and F-hole
• AAAA Flamed Maple top
• Quartersawn Eastern Hard Rock Maple neck with 2-way trussrod
• Birdseye Maple fingerboard with 25.5" scale, 22 medium frets and Abalone position markers
• Custom-wound and matched Lollar P-90 and Imperial Humbucking pickups
• Callaham hardware, featuring cryogenically treated CTS pots and Soundcraft 5-way switch
• Locking Sperzel tuning machines and Schaller strap-loks
• Lowstrung "Natureveal" binding

Custom Acoustic

This custom acoustic model is based on a classic “Single 0” design by the C.F. Martin Company.  Go ahead and pick up this charming wee guitar.  Everywhere you look, you’ll see exquisite tone woods and subtle elegance.  This guitar amazes me with its responsiveness.  We’re talkin’ detailed, balanced warmth that feels good in your ears and prismatic harmonic content without compression at full-voice.

C.F. Martin design "Single 0" short scale acoustic

• Adirondack Spruce sound board
• Book matched Honduran Rosewood back and sides set
• Quartersawn Honduran Mahogany neck
• African Blackwood fingerboard, head cap laminate, heel cap and end graft
• Rosewood bridge with maple bridge plate and carved bone bride pins
• 24.9" scale with 21 vintage-sized frets
• Figured Hawaiian Koa binding with Big Leaf Maple and Walnut detailing
• Waverly tuning machines with Ebony buttons
• Spanish Cedar kerfing and hand-carved Adirondack Spruce bracing
• Abalone and Mother-of-Pearl inlays
• Unbleached bone nut and intonated saddle

These are the guitars that were hanging out in my head. What have you got hanging inside of yours?

Custom Guitar Building

Luthier Minneapolis

The craft of guitar making is almost limitless. Imagination and finance are the resources needed and the design process is where we will discover how much of each is required to achieve your desired result. There are a lot of decisions to make along the way. It’s important to dot the i’s and cross the t’s in this stage. To get started, download the PDF of the design worksheet and fill it out. If you don’t know why a certain option is important, go with your gut and make a note of the “instinct choice”. We can talk about the different choices and why they matter. See the Contact page to get your questions answered and start your custom guitar building from Lowstrung Guitars. 

Feast your eyes on this alluring custom build.  This is the DC Alpha.  From the light-weight, highly contoured basswood body to the ultra-comfortable maple and rosewood neck and the stunning carbon fiber finish, every detail was conceived to give the owner a one-of-a-kind guitar.  Let's get started on your signature instrument today.