
This guitar struck the perfect balance
As far as I am concerned, this is the best guitar that's ever been made — this thing just wants to sing. It's so incredible!
David — Denver, CO
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Every great guitar starts with an idea—a sound you’re chasing, a feel that inspires, a design that speaks to you. At Born Guitars, we don’t just build instruments; we craft extensions of the player. Every curve, contour, and component is designed with intention, ensuring that your custom build is a seamless fusion of tone, playability, and artistry.
But creating a truly one-of-a-kind guitar is more than just picking out woods and finishes. It’s a process that demands precision, expertise, and an understanding of how every element—materials, electronics, and craftsmanship—comes together to shape the final instrument.
This is where our experience comes in. With years of refining our signature styles, Born Guitars has mastered the balance between innovation and tradition, ensuring every build is optimized for resonance, comfort, and performance. From selecting premium, sustainably sourced woods to engineering our Flow™ Neck Joint & Vice Lock™ Sustain System, every detail is designed to elevate your playing experience.
Building a custom guitar isn’t for everyone. If you’re looking for a pre-built model or simply need a single component for a DIY project, we may not be the right fit. Our process is for musicians who:
✔ Want a completely custom, one-of-a-kind instrument designed from the ground up.
✔ Are searching for a guitar that is tailored to their playing style, technique, and personality.
✔ Value craftsmanship and innovation, understanding that the right build can enhance expression.
✔ Are ready to invest in a serious, professional-grade instrument, built to last a lifetime.
This is a journey—a collaborative process where we take the time to understand your needs, explore materials, discuss design elements, and ensure that your vision translates into an instrument that feels like an extension of you. If that's you, then let's chat!
Whether new, reclaimed, or salvaged, understanding where and how our wood is sourced is paramount to creating an instrument that honors our connection to the land and generations to come.
Claro Walnut
Myrtlewood
Hawaiian Koa
Redwood
Quilted Maple
Rare Feather Crotch Claro Walnut
MG Carve Custom
Claro Walnut is a beautiful well regarded wood amongst luthiers and woodworkers. It has signature dark browns and violets. Our selection comes from the west coast of the United States, and salvaged from walnut plantations where English walnut is grafted on to Claro walnut rootstock. Feather crotch walnut was once only reserved for royalty to adorn custom furniture and thrones. Walnut has become increasingly rare due disease, slow growth and high demand.
Rare Flamed Myrtlewood
OG Carve Custom
Myrtlewood is a rare, beautiful wood that comes from the Pacific Northwest. It has excellent tonal qualities and varies in colors from white to dark browns. Figure can vary from plain to intense ripples to burl in nature. Every single myrtlewood top is truly one-of-a-kind.
Flamed Hawaiian Koa
OG Drop Semi Hollow Koa
Koa is a highly respected instrument wood, and is hailed for rich tones and its gorgeous rich coloring, ranging from reds and ambers to rich dark browns. It usually has gorgeous grain striping. The finest examples have intense figuring.
Rare Salvaged Redwood Burl
OG Carve Burl Custom w/ Tailpiece
Redwood is an incredible wood. These trees can be as big a towering city buildings. Much of the old growth redwood forest were chopped down at the turn of the 20th century. All of our old growth redwood is salvaged from the forest floor from stumps and logs left to rot over 100 years ago. Each piece of redwood is unique and very special. Redwood is a light & soft wood, but is incredibly strong and resistant to rot. It gives wonderfully warm and rich tone to our guitars, and we love pairing it with a light piece of Swamp Ash.
Special Quilted Maple
Ripples - Quilted Maple
Big Leaf Quilted Maple is one of the fanciest woods used in any guitar build, and it is prized for it's ability to show holographic like depth and accept nearly any color finish imaginable. From Ocean Blues to Fiery Reds, Quilted Maple is always a show stopper.
As far as I am concerned, this is the best guitar that's ever been made — this thing just wants to sing. It's so incredible!
David — Denver, CO
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All TestimonialsI just wanted to send a note letting you know how pleased I am with my Retro-Candy Apple Red-MG Carve Top (now name Lucy). She is absolutely beautiful and put a big smile on my face when I opened her case. The fit and finish of this guitar is outstanding and the details Campbell worked out with me to make this a one-of-a-kind instrument are really cool and well executed. How awesome is that dove and peace-sign inlay at the 12th fret!
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Ken - Chicago, IL
All TestimonialsBuying a custom guitar can be a scary process. I am always worried about putting effort and money into an instrument that I wont get to play until its finished. When I started planning my guitar with the people at Born they made process easy and painless. I wasn’t familiar with all the technical specifications so instead they had me tell them what type of features I’d want and helped narrow down the specifics.
I’m a producer and the guitar would be living in a studio so I needed it to b...
Noam - Chicago, IL
All TestimonialsI could not be happier or more satisfied with the guitar that the Born folks built for me. It is an OG Drop with redwood top, Port Orford cedar back and neck, catalox fingerboard, chambered body, incredible hand wound PAF pickups, J.P. Woodtone saddles, and chambered body. The sound, the action, the looks, everything about this guitar knocks me out.
I was looking for a solid body guitar to use for jazz and was not finding a T-style guitar that I felt comfortable with. Campbell at Bo...
Howard - Louisville, KY
All TestimonialsFirst of all, I want to thank the whole Born Custom Guitar crew for this amazing piece of art.
Where should I start? I will start saying that the guitar is amazing itself. The materials used to build this guitar are awsome and the best part of it, is that all materials are selected with an ecological mindset. The sound is amaizing and the equipment installed is high end quality. The customization is excellent; BCG build this guitar for me as I requested. It fits like a glove and that’s ...
Martin - Miami, FL
All TestimonialsThis guitar is a dream to play – exactly what I need for playing night in and night out The chambered body and humbucker pickups give it even more warmth and power than what I loved about my Les Paul. The Born team was great to work with through the entire design process and very attentive to every fine adjustment I needed afterwards. From the natural wood look and the custom inlay to all the nuts and bolts that give me everything I need for a solid road-worthy instrument, my Born guitar i...
I already own one custom Born Guitar, and I can tell you the next guitar I buy, will be another custom Born Guitar…!
KYLE - KENOSHA, WIThanks for making the single best song writing buddy I have ever had. This was a huge step for me… Was I even worthy of even owning a guitar of this value? What in the world could this quality of a guitar do for me that I haven’t seen or heard yet? This guitar erased all self-doubt and proved instantly to be a highlight in my life. I have recorded and written several new songs truly inspired by this guitar. If you have a crappy bag of golf clubs and you want to ...
Parker - Nashville, TN
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- K. ALLUMS
You knocked this one out of the park Jay! I own 15 great guitars from both big manufacturers and boutique builders, and this one blows them all out of the water. I don’t think I’ll play anything else again! Everything about this guitar (Redwood LTD) is truly amazing. The way it looks, the way it plays and feels, Everything. The neck is super comfortable, the action is perfect, and those P90 pickups are really incredible. I can get any tone I can think of out of this guitar. Beautif...
Anders Osborne - New Orleans, LA
All TestimonialsI love the guitar! The sound crew at Brauntex theatre is the same sound crew of Gruene Hall. We were playing a tribute to Merle Haggard and those guys were blown away. To quote them “at times it sounded like a telecaster, 335 and pedal steel…I had to lookup to see what you were playing.”
Image: Kenny's friends know how much he loves his Born so for Kenny's birthday he was surprised with a Born Guitars custom guitar cake, which was modeled after his Redwood & Swamp Ash OG-Carve. ...
Kenny Grimes - Bastrop, TX
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