Free Shirt Wednesday – 9/7 – Emerson Custom Guitars

Today’s Free Shirt Wednesday is brought to you by Emerson Custom Guitars! Emerson Custom Guitars is an American Boutique Guitar and Bass company based out of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. I honestly can’t remember who contacted who first, but my dealings with Mitch Ingram at Emerson Custom Guitars has been great. I really value my *gut* impressions of people.. and Mitch is one of those good guys that I personally like to deal with.

Okay, so let’s talk about Emerson Custom Guitars! It is owned and operated by Mitch Ingram, who has a unique passion for making the guitar personal again.

Somewhere along the line, with a “one size fits all” mentality from manufacturers it became impersonal . Our goal is get to know our customers and what they are looking for in a guitar. Giving them the ability to have a unique, quality instrument that is custom made just for them. We view the guitar as a tool, that needs to be relevant to the needs and expectations of the player. Instead of settling for a stock instrument, let us build you your own custom guitar, no record deal required.

Our passion is in our name “custom”. We offer so many options, and don’t build stock instruments, so we leave every detail up to the customer. Our clients our able to choose exactly what they want down to the small details Everyone is different, therefore one guitar shape, sound, or feel doesn’t work for everyone. The ability to choose exactly what you want can be intimidating because there are so many options, but once you understand what you prefer and what kind of player you are there is a sense of empowerment that comes from being able to choose exactly what goes into your guitar.

Each and every guitar we make is built in the USA, using as much domestically sourced parts as possible.

Emerson Custom Guitars has many models to offer:

-T-Style
-T-Style Thinline
-T-Style Set neck
-S-Style
-S-Style Set neck
-J-Master Style
-D-Style (dinky style)
-D-Style Set Neck (dinky style)
-Single Cut
-Single Cut Set Neck
-Single Cut Semi Hollow
-P-Style Bass
-J-Style Bass

Here is a list of features that come standard on every guitar we produce:
-Premium Quality Tonewoods (Neck and Body)
-Ergonomic Neck-to-Body Contours
-Neck Ferrules ( on bolt on guitars: the neck is attached to the body with 4 screws that are recessed into the body . Aids in ergonomics and makes a huge difference in sustain.)
-Sperzel Locking Tuners ( each tuner is graduated in height so strings trees are not needed)
-Premium Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish on Neck and Body
-Babicz Full Contact Bridges ( www.fullcontacthardware.com, awesome design and tone)
-Cleartone Strings
-Premium Hardshell Case
-CTS potentiometers
-Custom Wound pickups (output to your specs, www.customwound.com)
-Electrosocket Jack plates
-Wired with premium vintage cloth wire
-Switchcraft input jacks
-GraphTech Black Tusq XL or Tusq XL nuts

Our bass guitars come standard with the same features as sated above except:
-Quartersawn Maple ( We use this wood standard on all of our Bass necks because of its strong dimensional stability characteristics and because of its superb tone.
-Inside of each of our bass necks are 2 Graphite reinforcement rods. Graphite rods help tremendously to minimize dead spots.

There are many options to make your guitar more versatile or special:
-MIDI pickup systems
-Exotic wood P-90 covers
-Exotic wood cavity and tremolo covers

Emerson Custom Guitars has every color imaginable, they can match most any color and offer a glitter/sparkle and pearl topcoats on any color!

Want to know what a Emerson Custom Guitar can sound like? Mitch has a

(original posted on their Facebook page). To listen click here.

You can check out Emerson Custom Guitar at their website (http://www.emersoncustomguitars.com) for more information. Also you can become a fan of their Facebook page

Mitch.. thanks for the shirt!

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