Guitar Build Workshop

What an incredible day at Guitar Build Workshop!

A huge thank you to T-Mobile and their top sales performers for spending the day with us building custom guitars. These individuals are leaders in their field, and today they proved to be outstanding guitar builders as well.

Together, they created four one-of-a-kind, American-made guitars that will be donated to the W.O. Smith School of Music, helping provide opportunities for Nashville's next generation of musicians and creators.

We're honored that T-Mobile chose Guitar Build Workshop for this special event and grateful that these instruments will continue making an impact long after today's class ended.

Special thanks to Gustavo and Greg for volunteering their time and expertise, and to Traci for another masterclass in event management. As always, you made everything run seamlessly.

10 out of 10 day. Thanks, everyone!

Today we welcomed LaTisha and Levi from Missouri to Guitar Build Workshop!

They've been traveling around the Midwest and South on vacation, with their trip culminating in a guitar-building experience to celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary.

Kelly led the class today and helped them create a beautiful forest green burst guitar paired with a maple neck. The results were fantastic, and most importantly, they had a great time building it together.

Thank you for finding us and choosing to spend part of your anniversary here in Nashville.

Happy 27th Anniversary, LaTisha and Levi!

So happy to have Chase and his brother Edward in the shop today for a surprise pop-up partial class. Edward had no idea what his brother had planned, but judging by that smile, I’d say it was a pretty big success.

Thank you guys for trusting us with the surprise and spending the day with us at Guitar Build Workshop.

Legendary guitar builder Kelly Butler held down the fort as instructor for the day while we were over at the Nashville Fairgrounds with Advanced Plating and Tennessee Electric at the Goodguys show showing off some of our hot-rodded guitars.

Days like this are what it’s all about.

Sunday grind at the shop today because Traci keeps booking these corporate classes faster than we can build for them. 😋 Another batch of six guitars up on deck and waiting for the next team-building crew to roll through Nashville.

Not a bad problem to have.

This weekend we had Christine and Michael in the shop while we were out at the Dallas guitar show, and Kelly and Gustavo held it down for us.

Michael built one of the most unique guitars we’ve seen come out of here in a long time. He upgraded his body with a smoked barbecued finish and it turned out smoky sweet in all the right ways.

That’s the best part of these classes, every single build has its own personality, and this one definitely stands out.

Thank you Christine and Michael for spending your weekend with us.

Steve and I hit pause on the day job, loaded up the guitars, and pointed the truck toward Dallas for the next few days. We’re taking Tennessee Electric on the road and sharing it with a wider audience, one guitar at a time.

Here’s to new conversations, new connections, and seeing where this thing goes. Wish us luck.

Last week’s corporate build class brought out some wild ones. Here’s a little snapshot of a few of the more unique flavors that rolled out of the shop. Always fun watching people from different divisions come together for the day and leave holding guitars they built themselves. More fun shots from this event coming later this week.

A few weeks ago Carson was scheduled to jump into a partial class, but a cold had other plans. So we subbed in his old man, Art, and he showed up ready to go.

This turned into one of our first live FaceTime builds, Carson calling the shots from home, picking his body and colors in real time. He went with our GBV body upgrade and a rosewood neck, solid choices.

Since it was a partial class, Art headed back to Phoenix and we took it across the finish line here at the shop.

Now the family’s packing up and making their way back to Nashville, and we’ll be waiting with a one of a kind GBV guitar ready for Carson.

We had a fantastic day in the shop.

Ben, all 6 ft 17 in of him, was in from the Seattle area with his mom Andrea and chose to spend his upcoming 14th birthday building his first guitar, and I have a feeling it will not be his last.

He went completely off script in the best way. Purple base coat, treble side teal, bass side red. A combo we have never seen in class before, but something tells me we are going to see it again.

We are calling this one the Benjamin Burst.

Thanks for spending your birthday with us, Ben.

Hope Nashville treated you well. Help us spread the word up in the Northwest.

Name this finish?

We have Corporate class coming up and we're experimenting with some new finishes.

We need your help with their new names

MCG what you got?