Shaw Custom Guitars

Welcome to Shaw Guitars. Each guitar I make is painstakingly handcrafted: synthesizing each individual design from a unique choice of beautiful exotic woods, customized electronics, and the best available hardware to produce a work of art that sounds as exotic as it looks. The first time you pick up a Shaw Guitar is like meeting an old friend, comfortable and familiar. But, like an old friend you've not seen for a while there are always new things to discover. 

Obviously you're not here because you're interested in an electric guitar that is made by automata, or a manufacturer whose best instruments were designed and produced decades ago.  Maybe you're looking for a electric guitar that melds the timelessness of those designs with an old-school attention to detail and a fresh look at new technologies and components yet in which form follows function. And when the form is as simply gorgeous as a Shaw Guitar, the function should be obvious.  Beautiful instruments make beautiful music...get your fingers on one!

 

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The Projects…
Rick keeps threatening to do some blogging but as long as he is making guitars, I’m not gonna whine too much.  Thought I’d post a few pictures I took a while back.  There are always surprises to be had when I visit Shaw Guitars, and on this particular day I saw a guitar body wrapped [...]
Bass Project
Here’s a Bass project that is in the works, well, actually it’s been on the shelf for some time but it’s so pretty that I’ve been pushing Rick to pick it up again and finish it.  It’s a neck-thru design:  a 5-string fretless bass.  Here’s a closeup of the body: I’ll have to get with Rick [...]
Lap Steel Project
If you’re reading this, you’ve almost certainly seen the stunning pictures of the two latest Lap Steel guitars.  I thought I’d post a few pictures that show the evolution of these two beauties. Now I don’t know the first thing about playing lap steel but I know a pretty guitar when I see one.  The new owner [...]

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