Custom Ordering Directly from the Froggy Bottom Shop
Choosing a guitar can be simple: you walk into a store, fall in love, plunk your money down, and go home happy.
But finding your “holy grail” of guitars typically involves years of playing a wide variety of instruments as you zero in on what you want. There are off-the-shelf instruments available that may stand out in one area or another.
We hear from players who have found elements of their “grail guitar” scattered among various instruments: the high end of this one, the bass response of that, the volume and balance of another…
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Your (collective) attentiveness, accessibility and sensitivities certainly are making the process enjoyable (understatement) for me.
It’s ALL about function!!!
Every element of a custom hand made instrument is decided upon based on your functional requirements. We have done this for over a thousand players in the last 40 years and the feedback we hear consistently is that we have far exceeded their hopes and expectations.
The finest examples of our extensive inventory of rare and exotic woods are available only for custom guitars ordered directly from the Froggy Bottom shop. Standard grade instruments are also only available as custom guitars.
At Froggy Bottom, when we build a custom guitar, our job in conversation with the player is to do whatever is necessary to determine as precisely as possible the nature of that imagined “grail guitar”. And then build it.
Unlike the custom shops of most other guitar companies – where you may be allowed to specify inlay patterns, trim details and wood choices, but the guitar is still made to their existing “recipe” – with a Froggy Bottom custom guitar, the design parameters including body size, shape, depth, scale length, neck dimensions, the neck/body attachment point, and the relevant proportions and contours of the instrument are all considered and chosen in consultation with the player in service to the desired results.
This “Froggy Bottom Sampler” was filmed at an event at Next Stage in Putney, Vermont a few years back.
It includes playing and commentary by three players and Michael Millard.
Scott Ainslie plays his Model G
David Surrette his Model H14 and
Will Ackerman his Model F14
Ordering your guitar…
When you’re ready to open this conversation, give us a call!
Once we’ve agreed on the details of your guitar we’ll give you a price quote and a place in line. You send us a 50% deposit and we’ll give you the date we’ll start your guitar (±2 weeks). Deposits on commissioned guitars are not refundable.
Waiting times can vary widely but we do not take deposits on guitars we can’t start building within one year.