re: Local made guitars

Am I wrong in inferring from those pics that you do or facilitate custom relic jobs? I looked on your site, but it just says custom jobs. Maybe you do anything and everything when it comes to building them.

I was thinking about an MJT custom relic, but haven't pulled the trigger.

That is a good looking relic tele. Also, that blue with woodgrain is awesome as well.

Do you paint them? Send them out?

The "desert sand" nitro relic in the photos is an MJT paint job. I have two strat bodies for builds in MJT's booth right now as I type this.

I have in total five painters with whom I work, in different parts of the country, with different specialty areas (nitro, polys, glitters, graphics, etc.). They do STELLAR work at incredible prices and are among the best pure values in the US in regard to what they bring to the table for our (your) investment.

Meanwhile, if I built a booth that would get the results those five guys provide me and my clients, AND be DEQ and EPA and HOA compliant in a residential area, I will spend about $20K before I mix my first pint of paint. Care to guess who would ultimately reimburse me for that $20K booth investment?

And that's just paint ... imagine if I was to tool up to make EVERYTHING from scratch. That's what "luthiers" do. Like I said, I'm not a luthier. I am a tech. I fix things and I solve problems.