Most people know that these days its fairly straight forward to get a t-shirt, mug or mousemat printed online, but now you can also customise a guitar.
Being a bit of a guitar fan myself when I heard that Peavey Guitars were doing a similar thing that Cafepress did with t-shirts, but with guitars I had to take a look. In a similar way to Cafepress you upload a high resolution design to the site and position it on a guitar with the option to both scale and rotate the design.
The option is currently in beta, but I had an experiment and uploaded the Graphic Design Blog banner image to try, you can see the results above. With the guitars alone costing a minimum of $1599.99 (without the graphic) I daren’t press the submit button.
I will have to see if my boyfriend is feeling incredibly generous this Christmas 
at the current prices, but hopefully something similar will trickle down to cheaper guitars eventually. My only problem is that unfortunately my graphic would probably be a lot better that my guitar playing 
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Wow. That is very cool. Likewise, I can’t afford one of those guitars either but I’m still going to go and have a play with some graphics!
Hi Jennifer, are you a guitar fan too? How long have you been playing?
I used to play cello, and will wait for a similar site for cellists
Your Graphic Design Blog Guitar is superb by the way! I’m already looking foward to your first podcast with guitar backing. You could write a song about design good practice?
Hi David,
I keep my eye open for a Cello site
As for the podcast, the idea of podcast is to drive people to your site – not away
Hi Tara
I’m a big guitar fan but a rubbish player. “Three chords and the truth”. I did lessons when I was a kid but would love to take it up again. For now though, I am happy to become a guitar designer thanks to your excellent find. Might add that to my CV ….
I’m a huge guitar fan with a small guitar budget… so I’ll have to wait for that price tag to drop. Very cool idea though!
That’s brilliant! If they could get it down to the $500-$800 USD range, they’d sell a million of them.
That is very cool…thanks for sharing that! I have a friend who thinks he’s a pro…maybe I’ll upload his name onto one of those things and see if he bites.
Cheers!
Well, almost every custom shop provides something like custom design on the guitar body or even custom designed fret board, at least most of the leading guitar companies like Fender, Gibson, Peavey, Ibanez, PRS, Musicman etc.
The price is always so high, that not everybody can aford that. I would rather contact the customshop itself than ordered my design via website.
Anyway it is a nice page to play with it a while.
Regards
This is something similar (using snowboards):
http://www.beboard.net/swf/beboard.php
WOW!!!
Now THERE is something that gets me excited. I have been a guitarist for 20+ years, and have always held off purchasing a custom because I wanted to do the design.
Now I have a reason to throw out the big bucks!! Oh man, the wheels are turning . .
Thanks Tara!!
Bryan
Hi everyone thanks for all of your comments
Bryan, no blaming me when your broke and over run with guitars
. I have been playing for about 4 years but am not very good, but my house is already over run with guitars. It would be cool if you could customise acoustic too. You’ll have to send me a photo of your customised guitar when you get its (if you decide to go for it) and I’ll post it to this blog post.
I bought a Les Paul custom about 12 years ago and absolutely love it – it’s a lefty too so it cost me a hefty bit more!
However, still loving playing today and will not stop either.
Graeme Davidson
Hi Graeme, Something like that is really worth buying – if you still love it 12 years later you know it was a good buy.
This is so cool! One of my fav designs on a guitar has to be the red and white Eddie Van Halen guitar. Will look into that when I have some spare cash lying around! Cheers Tara