StoryWood Music designs and builds pro-quality custom electric guitars and basses using
100% reclaimed or salvaged wood with a history - a story.
Historic Wood + Modern Hardware & Playability = StoryWood “Modern Vintage”
Our mission is to find high-quality, rare sources of reclaimed wood that make outstanding guitars and tell an interesting story. Age can do wonderful things to wood in the right circumstances, and our guitars have a liveliness and resonance that comes with vintage wood.
We’ve made our custom guitars from wood reclaimed from American Tobacco Company warehouses, the Harriet & Henderson cotton mill and the Vaughan Furniture Company factory. We make maple guitar necks from former factory flooring. Our fingerboards might come from logs that spent the last hundred years at the bottom of a lake in Panama or river in Belize, or from flooring that hosted thousands of games underfoot in a university gymnasium.
And we'll share your new guitar's stories with you.
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Old-growth, and even second-growth, wood has qualities unlike what we see in freshly harvested wood today. 100+ year old heart pine may as well be a different wood type as compared to pine 2x4s from the big box store.
We have six custom guitar and custom bass guitar models designed to show off the colors and tight growth rings that are common in reclaimed wood. In our instruments, you may see the occasional nail hole or mineral streak. We've left them intentionally to help tell the story of its past and to be as efficient as possible with the vintage materials we use.
Each model has a standard configuration, but as you can see, that can be just a starting point. Choose from a variety of reclaimed woods and hardware/pickup configurations to create your unique StoryWood custom guitar.
Flamed redwood top
There are literally hundreds of small custom guitar shops across the world that will give you a perfect replica of, or at least their take on, a ‘51 Nocaster, a ‘62 strat or a ‘59 Les Paul.
At StoryWood, we’ll give you something nobody else has.
If you want a pro-level instrument configured the way you want, made from vintage, reclaimed or salvaged wood with history and a past life to it, we’re here for you.
