Welcome to Birdwood Guitars
The Birdwood Guitars story has certainly been an amazing ride. I have had the opportunity to build guitars for some of my favourite people on Earth. Making life-long friends along the way and helping artists to create music, which is what it’s all about!
I build a wide selection of instruments including cigar box guitars, solid body guitars and guitar effect pedals. Every instrument I build is guaranteed to perform reliably and provide a lifetime of sonic happiness.
Birdwood Guitars is also the Australian retailer for Steve Arvey’s KILLER STRINGS for cigar box guitars. These incredible strings are made in the USA to the highest specs so you can be assured of great tuning reliability and amazing tone.
We offer a great range of ready-made and made-to-order instruments and are happy to talk to you about custom builds.
Delivery times
Our made-to-order instruments are the backbone of Birdwood Guitars, and as such we put a priority on these builds. These instruments are made by hand and are built to be effortless to play and perform for a lifetime. Due to demand and attention to detail there is an approximate six week build time on all Stage series instruments. However, we know that you are going to love your new guitar. Customer feedback has always been inspiring.
Adam Harrison.
Our other Stage Series Instruments
Our STAGE SERIES Black Thunder CBG has become the ultimate in styling for our Stage Series instruments.
The black tuxedo look chrome hardware and smooth playability have made this one of our most popular guitars.
All Birdwood Guitars are set up to provide beautiful playability and excellent intonation from the nut all the way up the neck to the bridge saddle. I am a luthier who has been working on and building electric guitars for the last 14 years. My mission is to provide you with the an instrument that you won’t want to put down.
Your Guitar
Heavy duty handmade body
Satin finish
oak neck
rosewood fretboard
Medium frets
chrome humbucker pickup
Chrome hardware
protective box corners
closed machine heads
Fixed, hardtail bridge
volume and tone controls
Strap buttons
Every Black Thunder is a one of a kind creation and as such there may be slight differences between each guitar built depending on hardware availability and timber used.
There is a $20 surcharge on gold hardware do to it’s increased cost. This includes a gold covered pickup.
These guitars are made to order. There is an approximate 6 week build time. Just like any quality instrument, these take time to build. Different things can impact build time, demand, the weather and attention to detail. However, you WILL receive an instrument that you will love. That is my promise!
Covered by our limited, lifetime Fair-wear guarantee.
Well, due to popular demand from you guys for more variety in the STAGE SERIES electric range, the ‘Cowgirl Blues’ guitar is back!
This guitar was a very popular instrument a few years ago and was discontinued simply because it was quite time consuming to build! I was so busy in the old bricks and mortar shop that I simply didn’t have the time to build it.
Thats the benefit of coming back online. I can do these awesome guitars again.
Your ‘Cowgirl Blues"‘ guitar will have this..
handmade, heavy duty box body
light relic style artwork applied
black finish
oak/eucalyptus neck (depending on availability)
inline headstock
reclaimed and ebonised fretboard with medium frets
offset screw dot markers
powerful humbucker in the neck position
volume and tone controls
output jack rear side mounted for greater strength and comfort
chrome or black hardware option
available as a left or right handed instrument
3 or 4 string available (6 on request)
There is an approximate 4 - 6 week build time on this instrument depending on demand and the handmade nature of the instrument.
Juke Joint Rocker
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Why made-to-order?
Building a made to order instrument allows you to pick and choose from a fantastic range of options including;
hardware colour
3 or 4 string
Right or left handed
or special requests such as component layout or even fancy fretless.
The ‘Juke Joint Rocker’ is our best selling CBG style ever! It’s super tough design allows it to be taken on stage and survive all the knocks and bumps that life on the road can dish out. It utilises an electric guitar pickup to provide killer tones at high volume and with loads of distortion as well.
All Birdwood Guitars are set up to provide beautiful playability and excellent intonation from the nut all the way up the neck to the bridge saddle. I am a luthier who has been working on and building electric guitars for the last 14 years. My mission is to provide you with the an instrument that you won’t want to put down.
Your Guitar
Handmade heavy duty body
rustic styling
oak neck
rosewood fretboard
powerful CBG humbucker pickup
Fixed hardtail bridge
volume
tone
Box corners
strap buttons
large sound hole for acoustic projection
Set up with USA made KILLER STRINGS tuned GDG
Every Juke Joint Rocker is a one of a kind creation and as such there may be slight differences between each guitar built depending on hardware availability and timber used.
These guitars are made to order. There is an approximate 6 week build time. Just like any quality instrument, these take time to build. Different things can impact build time, demand, the weather and attention to detail. However, you WILL receive an instrument that you will love. That is my promise!
Covered by our limited, lifetime Fair-wear guarantee.
Our STAGE SERIES CBGs are designed to be able to take all the bumps and knocks that life on the road can dish out. We build handmade enclosures for these models that have sides measuring 19mm these are tough guitars that also sound incredible acoustically. However, you want to rock out so we use a full sized black cover, enclosed humbucking pickup to provide THE ROCK!!!
The ‘Delta Blues’ model has been an incredible seller for us and I know you are going to love it.
Your Guitar
Heavy duty hand made enclosure
oak neck
Meranti fretboard
Medium frets
Full sized humbucker
volume and tone controls
fixed, hardtail bridge
box corners
quality electrics
strap buttons
large sound hole for acoustic volume
Every STAGE SERIES guitar is a one of a kind creation and as such there may be slight differences between each guitar built depending on hardware availability and timber used.
These guitars are made to order. There is an approximate 6 to 8 week build time. Just like any quality instrument, these take time to build. Different things can impact build time, demand, the weather and attention to detail. However, you WILL receive an instrument that you will love. That is my promise!
Covered by our limited, lifetime Fair-wear guarantee.
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