Category: Customer Builds

My Double Cut Junior!!

-Shad

Your guitars are always as I want them and expect them to be. I am very hard on myself when building a custom guitar for someone else. You “precision” in cutting the instruments exactly how I need them has just added years to my life, lol. My custom guitar purchasers are extremely happy with their purchases. We make a good team, you and me!

-Greg

One of my favourite teles I built from your amazing kits. Relic sparkle finish with mastery bridge and bigsby b5

-CJ

Just finished my kit. This is the LPJ with 2x P90’s. Mahogany body and neck, maple cap and ebony fretboard. I did a Truoil French polish finish to the body and neck, and sprayed nitro on the cap. Fralin PUPS, Emerson Custom pots and caps, amd Schaller tuners. The quality of the kit was beautiful. Thank you!

-Adam

I am really enjoying the roasted maple neck, ebony fingerboard, and swamp ash body.  No grain filler was used and the finish was kept reasonably thin. 

– Rob

Hello!  Been a little bit, but I wanted to show you the results of one of your clearance items that I finally finished.

Thanks for a great kit, hoping to come back for more soon!

-Eric

My second build.  Great craftsmanship and a PERFECT top for what I had planned!  You nailed it again!  Looks, sounds and plays fantastically!  Thanks so much! 

-Bobby

-Rex

Kit #6 from you guys keep up the amazing work each and everyone plays like a dream

-CJ

Flame maple top with dye stain.

Semi-opaque, tobacco nitrocellulose lacquer on sides and back.

Clear gloss nitrocellulose lacquer top coat.

Hand-modified Cabronita style pick guard.

Porter Tele Hybrid Plus pickups.

Gotoh bridge.

Hipshot open-back tuning machines.

-Michael

-Rob

– Frank

BKP Holy Diver pickups
Transtint Amber dye; natural “binding”
Stainless frets
1 pc black limba back
2 pc premium flamed western maple top
Flamed maple neck (satin) stained to match
Luminlay inlays
Finished with tru oil

Hope to order another kit soon.  You guys do incredible work.  Thank u so much.

-Bobby

Here’s my Deluxe. It’s a tribute to my first real guitar that I owned.  Unfortunately I don’t have the original anymore, so I built this as a replacement. I’m really happy with it. The craftsmanship from PGK is outstanding! Thanks!

– David, Paris, France

My ‘58 Double Cut build using TruOil. I’m blown away with how well it came out! Neck is straight and perfectly fretted. I have the action set up at 3/64” from the top of the 17th fret to the bottom of the strings and no buzz.

-Curtis

By Philip Minatra

Hello,

Just completed my PGK Thinline and I couldn’t be happier. Fit, and finish was excellent. I’m especially impressed with the precision of the neck joint. I used water based dyes hand rubbed. Approx 30-35 coats of True Oil (I lost count lol ), Fender tele vintage pickups, bridge, and tuners, and a bone nut. I did a fret level, and dress just to be sure, and the truss rod works as it should. Looks, and sounds fantastic! I haven’t been able to put it down! I have always wanted a Thinline, and now I have one.

Thank you, Carl

Take a look at Ben Seelig’s amazing completed kit! He had this to say about the process:

“Hi folks at PGK! I just finished my 58’ Jr Doublecut and it came out better than I could have ever imagined. The quilted maple cap is gorgeous and the one piece African mahogany body is light with a nice grain pattern. The neck fit was perfect and the fret work was great right out of the box! I will absolutely be purchasing another kit in the near future. I installed a Kinman Nasty 90 and used a Pigtail Wraparound bridge. Finished the guitar with rattlecan nitro and wet sanded from 800 – 2500 grits. Then I used medium, fine and swirl remover polishing compounds. All by hand. The end result? Perfection! ”

Double cut build by Asher — Kinman P90HX pickups, Hipshot Baby Grand bridge!

Custom M7 kit with a single pickup finished by Tyler Moberly

Completed by Emre Salva!

Build completed by Phil Speed.

Check out this build by our customer Simeon Bland!

Check out this build by our customer Ken Alverson!

Ben Gordon finishing up his beautiful Flame Maple top ’59 build.

T Style Custom completed build by John Baldaia

Another amazing completed build sent in by one of our customers! This one is a ’59 Carved Top with Eastern Flame Maple Top upgrade.

Phil:

Finally submitted pics of the blonde ArchTop build. There was no place to add my story in the upload process, so here it is-

Took over a year to get it the finish right but the pics speak for themselves. Can’t be more pleased!

The hardware PGK provided were spot on! A little trouble with the tuning holes (large), but that was the result of the desert temps, not your fault. Weather in Arizona jumps around daily. Humidity is just as unpredictable. When the cooler temps finally arrived, I literally kept two thermometers to provide indoor and outdoor temps/humidity to complete the finish. Never took it outside if temp was more than 5 degrees cooler/warmer. Then the rains came…lol! Oh, to have had an indoor spraying room…

PGK did an excellent job of the neck work, not to overlook the precision pocket-fit. Really five stars, fellas!

To Operate under extra care, I let the glue dry for a whole week before commencing any hardware applications.

I call it my “Blonde Bombshell”. The pickups are vintage matched in windings, metals and magnets. The result is a marvelously vintage 60’s sound. I couldn’t find a repro coil tap switch (or coil split depending on your school of thought), so I built one from a a 12-string, Switchcraft toggle switch, ha. Not difficult. Just a little more time. I know a pullpot would have done the trick, but The switch is my preference for authenticity. Works beautifully! Fantastic for recording!

The Blonde Bombshell has all the right artillery to add everything from snarl and smack to bluesy and jazz tones. The perfect balance to other instruments in the mix. Especially brass accompaniment. A marriage made in guitar heaven, ha.

God Bless you and all the folks that made my kit possible. It will remain a family heirloom- the guitar that dad made.

Dan in AZ

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