Maret Guitars

Name: Maret Guitars
Address: San Francisco, CA, 94561, US
Telephone: +18779008247
Price range: $$$

Maret Guitars was established in 2008 as a custom musical instrument company in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

Maret Guitars was established in 2008 as a custom musical instrument company in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, and we’ve now expanded operations to Brooklyn, NY, and New Orleans, LA. We specialize in boutique hand crafted, hand painted solid body electric guitars. Our combined knowledge and experience, and our dedication to precision craftsmanship is the core of our stylish and ergonomi

c designs, meticulous material selection, and skillfully executed construction. Our instruments are made one at a time to allow us to give each guitar our undivided attention to detail so that we can ensure the highest level of quality. We take great care to make sure your instrument is tailored to your playing style and needs, and all of our work is guaranteed for life. We offer a line of original guitar designs, but we also openly welcome custom commissioned projects. If you have ideas, we want to hear them. Together, we can make your passion for playing music a better experience.

10/23/2020

Got another reclaimed heart pine guitar in the works. Also did a design refresh. So far we’re really digging the new shape, just need to figure out what to call it...

10/20/2020

Processing this old reclaimed wood is like opening a time capsule. This tree was cut down around the same time Americans started using electricity. It’s been quietly and patiently waiting to become a guitar ever since...

09/18/2020

The inlaid truss rod cover is always the last piece of the puzzle.

08/24/2020

Almost ready! @ New Orleans, Louisiana

08/22/2020

Got the last of the gun stock oil on today. It won’t end up this glossy as it’ll be a brushed/waxed finish, but this longleaf pine sure does pop! @ New Orleans, Louisiana

07/25/2020

Action shot of the beloved plunge router!

07/24/2020

Inching closer to the finish line.

06/21/2020

Installed some evo gold frets, made a brass nut from scratch, and got the guitar strung up. Gonna let the neck settle under string tension for a bit before finalizing the fretwork. For some pieces of wood that literally came out of the garbage, this instrument is turning out to be pretty flashy! @ New Orleans, Louisiana

05/25/2020

05/14/2020

Becoming a guitar. @ New Orleans, Louisiana

05/12/2020

Mosaic pin rivets are usually used for decorative knife handles. Why not use them for fingerboard position markers?

05/06/2020

FANCY! @ New Orleans, Louisiana

05/04/2020

Ready for inlays!

04/29/2020

Rough carving a neck by hand is the sweatiest part of this gig. I like to do the bulk material removal, then let the neck sit overnight before cutting the radius into the fretboard to give the wood a chance to spring and settle. Once the fretboard is shaped I’ll let it settle again before doing the final neck shaping.

04/28/2020

Got a little rough carving done on this neck heel.

04/23/2020

Did some carving this morning. Things are starting to take shape!

04/22/2020

Getting that neck pocket fit just right!

03/06/2020

Got this neck pocket cut. Time to radius the fretboard and start carving this thing!

02/11/2020

Just got the final glue stages of this longleaf pine/purpleheart neck done. Time for this thing to start taking shape! @ New Orleans, Louisana

01/30/2020

Just scored this piece of salvaged old-growth longleaf pine from a renovation site on Canal and Royal at the edge of the French Quarter. This was a section of a girder in a 4-story storehouse built in 1845-46. There’s at least one guitar body, maybe two, in this thing.

01/23/2020

Purpleheart binding💜

12/22/2019

Got this neck tapered and made the headstock ears. Loving the way these woods are complimenting each other!

12/19/2019

Whenever we glue a fretboard onto a neck billet we always cover the truss rod with a piece of matte scotch tape and cut it about 1/16” around the cavity so no glue can get in there, but there’s still plenty of surface area for the glue joint. Also notice the steel brad registration pins to ensure the fretboard can’t slip once it’s clamped up.

11/11/2019

Making a scarf joint.

11/06/2019

Got this old-growth long leaf pine neck billet squared up and thickness sanded. This is going to be a beautiful neck!

10/30/2019

Making a neck billet out of an old-growth Long Leaf Pine floorboard from a 150-year-old New Orleans home. This quarter-sawn heartwood pine is very strong stuff. It’s completely different than Yellow Pine 2x4s used for modern construction. Along with the quarter-sawn Purple Heart stringers, this should be a very stable neck.

08/05/2018

Just completed this art guitar series collaboration with . We can’t talk about where it’s going yet, but we’ll have more news on that soon!

02/29/2016

Through Neck by Maret Guitars

02/29/2016

1951 Buick Super by Maret Guitars

02/28/2016

Set Neck custom guitar by Maret Guitars -

Address

San Francisco, CA
94561

Telephone

+18779008247

Website

http://www.maretguitars.com/

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