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Bodies and Woods We have our necks and bodies built to your specs by
the premier builders of necks and bodies, primarily USA Custom Guitars and Warmoth, with others upon request. We can provide a body
in any shape and wood you desire. We have these built
to original OEM spec or to your specs. Your choice of body woods
is limited only by your imagination: alder, swamp ash, mahogany,
maple, and exotics like Koa, on request. One-piece bodies are hard
to come by and cost significantly more than two and three piece
bodies. We recommend premium grade woods and one or two piece bodies for those killer tops you've always wanted and two or three piece bodies for guitars that are going to be painted solid colors. It saves you money. I can also get exotic or custom woods from several vendors for an upcharge.
For USA Custom Guitars body prices click: Bodies
Necks and Headstocks We use necks made by USA Custom Guitars for most necks. If you need an angled headstock, we use Warmoth. We can get you a neck in
just about any configuration you want: a one piece vintage with
skunk stripe, vintage with no stripe, truss adjust at the headstock or neck end, rosewood fretboards, maple fretboards, exotic wood
boards, stainless fretwire , custom neck radius, neck profile, you name it. For an upcharge, we can provide Brazilian Rosewood fretboards for those special guitars.
If you have a
headstock shape you designed and would like to use, drop it on me.
Necks from some makers come with a generic or non trademarked
shape that we can change or customize. Warmoth and Musikraft necks
come with the Fender® peghead shape and are licensed by Fender® to
do so.
For USA Custom Guitars neck prices click: Necks
For Warmoth neck prices click: Warmoth |
Hardware and Electronic PartAs our primary OEM pickups, we feature some fantastic single coil pickups from the land of cheese and running bratwurst, Angeltone. We also feature humbuckers, P-90s and other pickups from Jason Lollar Guitars, Harmonic Design and Seymour Duncan, just to name a few. I can order from others or you can provide them. We use only premium
hardware, such as Callaham Guitars and TonePros, from all over the U.S.,but we can get and use
licensed Fender® or Gibson® parts as well. We also like to use premium pots and caps from RS GuitarWorks, Mojo Musical Supply and others . The cost is higher, often twice as high, for some brand name parts
when compared to non branded parts. We can get pickups from any popular
vendors or you can provide them.
Complete Guitars We can build
you a guitar from the ground up: body, neck, custom or existing
peghead shape, finishing and mounting hardware and wiring up. Drop
me an email, tell me what you want.
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Finishing We finish guitars in
the traditional way, with nitrocellulose lacquer. We use traditional wood preparation and finishing methods.
We can paint your guitar in colors Fender or Gibson used to make, but no longer has available or only rarely makes available. Final clear coats are hand rubbed McFadden nitrocellulose lacquer from Luthiers' Mercantile. Nitro lets a guitar breathe and age like the originals. Today's
mass produced guitars will look as pristine and shiny in 10 years
as they did the day you bought them because they're encased in very hard
plastic.
Nitrocellulose lacquer thins as it ages, poly is forever.
Nitro will develop little hairline cracks or beauty marks if you will,
as it ages. The only way poly will get cracks is if you smack it with
a hammer or drop it on a hard surface.
Click below for:
Finishing process - How We Do It Finishing prices and available colorsRefinishing 
One of my refins.
CV Guitars
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My Shop
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Right-Click Here to download a short video of my assistant chasing his tail.What We Won't Do Due to trademark and copyright infringement restrictions, we
will not put a Fender® or other brand name decal on a headstock , under
any conditions.
Please don't ask. We won't cut a non Fender® licensed generic peghead shape to make it look
like a Fender® or Gibson®. We relish our financial freedom.
We don't sell parts, including hardware or pickups We have an agreement with our suppliers to not do that. As long as we do it that way, it allows us to get quality parts cheaper and keep the cost down to you.
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The Fender® logo, Stratocaster® , Telecaster®, Jazzmaster®, and Bass VI® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC). Gecko Guitars® is not affiliated in any way with FMIC.
The guitars shown on this site may display items trademarked by FMIC, such as the headstock shape, body shape, stampings on bridges and other hardware. These parts have been re-engineered from original Fender® guitars, are parts licensed to vendors by Fender®, or constructed incorporating Fender® parts submitted by our clients.
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