The problem with “options.”

On this site you won’t find a drop-down menu with standard options to choose from. It’s like this; if you buy a Fender Standard Tele in Butterscotch Blond it’s going to be exactly like everybody else’s Fender Standard Tele in Butterscotch Blond. At Pipe Dream we try to get away from that kind of thinking—what’s the fun in building the same guitar twice?

So this site acts as a portfolio of previous builds to show the possibilities. Look around, see if anything inspires you. Get ideas, mix and match.

As far as collaborating with clients, I use body “styles” as a jumping off point. So a Model S, for example, can be a bass or an electric guitar. It could have 6 guitar strings and 3 pickups or say, 5 bass strings and one pickup. Multi-scale? Headless? Fretless? Why not? It could have a maple top or a cedar top or a zebra wood top or…. We’re really only limited by imagination and budget.

Pipe Dream instruments start at $2,800 plus shipping and go up from there. It will take at least a month to build it. A $500 deposit puts you in the queue. Typically the waiting list a few months long but at the end of it all you’ll have a guitar like no one elses.