Custom Shop

Do you have that one idea for a guitar that keeps you up at night? Have you always wanted your name inlaid in your fretboard? Or what about your signature on the 12th fret? Like what you see, but want to add that special touch to our guitars to make it like nobody else’s? Well, welcome to the custom shop! You can get your very own custom Ashlee for FAR LESS than any custom shop in the world. All made in our Statesboro, GA factory.

Beauties from our Custom Shop!

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Steampunk Ashlee

The “Steampunk” Ashlee was a brain child of Kevin Honeycutt from Hutchinson, KS. The guitar was ordered through our dealer, Johnson Music. What a fun build this was!
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Ty Riggs Birdseye

When Ty asked us to build him a nice Birdseye Ashlee, we didn’t just want to pray that we got a good top. We wanted to MAKE a great top!
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Barn Birdseye

When Mike Vandevelde brought us birdseye maple from a 200 year old barn, we were blown away. When we finished the guitar, he was!
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Reno War Memorial

These guitars were built as a fund raiser for the Reno County War Memorial in Hutchinson, KS.
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Model 1906 in True Blue

Since I’m a GSU graduate with a degree in Music Education, I wanted to build one for GSU. Our result was the 1906 model in “True Blue”! -Chris
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Spalted Ashlee

Here’s a beautiful custom Spalted Maple Ashlee built for our friends at Latta Music in Alabama!
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Dazzle Burst

I have to admit, I never would’ve come up with this color on my own. We had a customer in Florida that wanted purple. He asked us to call it “Dazzle Burst”. We did and we do. This one’s for you, Razzle Dazzle…
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Cherry Burst with “Bennett Blocks”

This is the third custom for our friend, Steve Bennett. It’s all gold hardware and custom “Bennett Blocks” make this a sharp guitar!
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#501

We built serial #501 for our second dealer, Monster Music in Levittown New York!!
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Gold Top #1

Here's our first Gold Top Built for Latta Music in Dothan Alabama
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Gatlin Burst

Built custom for Mark Gatlin
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Walnut Ashlee

Built Custom for Travis Tompkins
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Single Piece Top

It's rare that we have a single piece maple top. We chose to build this one out of a single piece top and back for Latta Music.
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Sister for Another Mister

This is the "sister" top for the single piece top Ashlee. We could only build two out of the wood top. This was built for Terry Kirkland
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Troy Taylor Custom

This was built from our friend across the pond, Troy Taylor. It features the "Bennett Block" side block pattern.
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Allen Ward Custom

I really like the custom inlay we did for Allen Ward. Side note - Allen's guitar was our very first with laser inlay serial number on the headstock!
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Edward Murphy Custom

This was built for Edward Murphy. A "Satin Gatlin" Very Nice!
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Isaac Gaither Custom

This was built custom for Isaac Gaither
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Ken Weidner Custom

This "Dirty Top" Ashlee was built for Ken Weidner
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Latta Music Custom

This was built using a real American Flag. Custom for Latta Music
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Chris Strane Custom

This high flame top was built custom for Chris Strane. The Infinity inlays are awesome!
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Torin Torgersen Custom

Torin supplied his own gorgeous top for this build and gave us the color. We call it "Torin Burst"
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RNA Custom

This color is built for RNA Music out of Canton, Texas.
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Heart Pine Custom

This was a custom we built out of Heart Pine for Monster Music. We've only got enough wood to build one more from this tree.
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Riley Lowery Custom

This All White Ashlee was built for Riley Lowery (our street address is named for his uncle)!
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Sandbar Burst

This Ashlee was built custom for John Lloyd for Wolfe Guitars
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Heape Custom

This Walnut Ashlee was built for Stephen Heape with wood that was cut down by his Grandfather!
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Tom Girardeau Custom

This custom Spalted ashlee Semi-Hollow was built for Tom Girardeau. He gave me a ride to pick up my first guitar!
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Shiplap Custom

This custom Ashlee was built from Oak, Maple, and Mahogany for Brandon Taylor.
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#500 (Five Elements)

Latta Music ordered Serial #500 and thought about how they wanted to make it special. I'd say that it is!
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John Mendez Custom

John challenged us with making a "rainbow" burst using this color pallet. He also sent me a picture of his wife's tattoo that we put on the 12th fret!
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Blake Hicks Custom

Blake is a preacher and owns just about eveything we make. So when he asked us to design a tree of life for him, we knew what to do.
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Music Farm Steampunk

Brian at the Music Farm in Ohio asked us to build a variation on our Steampunk. We did a "gear" theme throughout this one.
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Chad Wagner Mark Nashville

This Nashville has a pearloid pick guard inlaid into the body.
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Gold Top Bigsby

We built a beautiful Gold Top Bigsby Ashlee for Joseph Sierzputowski
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Custom Diane for Micah Zeller

This Diane was Custom EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! With a baked maple neck, binding, and a beautiful flame top - it's a killer guitar!
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Music Farm "Spit Valve Steampunk"

We used Euphonium parts to create this iconic beauty! So it's an instrument inside of an instrument! Nothing went to waste - the water key (AKA "spit vale") is a functioning kill switch on this guitar!!
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Monster Music Spalted

Brian over at Monster Music, NY commissioned a beautiful spalted Ashlee. It's certainly one of our finest examples of what we've done with Spalted wood!
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Ken Sarmiento Custom

Ken wanted a "super strat" and we were already thinking along the same lines! We came up with his "Phuzaxeman". We plan on doing a formal release of the Diane "Angel" model soon!
CMG Guitars is located at:
1993 Randy Lowery Road
Statesboro, GA 30461
(912)764-3230
About us:
CMG Guitars specializes in manufacturing guitars for the working musician. We also build customs upon request. Feel free to give us a call or contact us via this website!