Thursday, May 16, 2019

Test and Play First

Yes, we make guitars to order and will build whatever you need. We’re musicians working for musicians in the shop and know what you a lot about what you need. Got it! You want a custom guitar. Test and Play first-then we can go forward intelligently, thoughtfully and thoroughly.
If you have specific requests-no problem, can do whatever you want.
Our guitars on Reverb are a great place to start. They’re all set up, feel great, sound great and are excellent gigging guitars. You should get one and try it.

start with a good used guitar….

You’ll love it. Look and find one as close to what you want as possible. Then buy it. Since they are so inexpensive you can’t go wrong with any of them.
I would recommend start with one of those. You’ll see how well it plays and sounds. Also- you’ll know how good the our work is.

Test and Play….experience with a guitar will tell you everything

Then after having some experience with one of our guitars you’ll get a better idea of what your next custom guitar should be like.
You’ll know what you want more of and any additional needs. Our job here is to get the right guitar in your hands.
There is only one way to build a guitar properly and we do it here.
We can talk about getting you a great custom guitar that is a no B.S. instrument.
No beholding to any one company’s parts-we use everyone’s best parts.
I tell players regularly, “Don’t spend lots of money on unnecessary parts and processes. We treat your money like it’s ours”. First, Test Haywire Custom Shop then play your new guitar built for you.
What do you think? Make sense?
Regards,
Rick Mariner
Haywire Custom Shop Guitar Engineering
https://www.haywirecustomguitars.com

image Rick Mariner working on guitar repairs — Test & Play-Rick working on a guitar

By Rick Mariner| May 15th, 2019|custom guitars,

About the Author: Rick Mariner

Mr. Rick Mariner Owner and Founder and CEO of Haywire Custom Guitars Inc. He is a member of The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (A.S.I.A.) as well as a guitar player. Rick holds a bachelors degree from University of Md. and a Masters degree from George Washington University. Rick developed his exclusive 8 – Point “Gig- Ready” guitar process that allows for Custom Guitars that are “GIG-READY”. With Rick’s many years of development and guitar set-up experience, Haywire Guitar shop “Builds satisfied players… one Haywire guitar at a time”.

Monday, May 13, 2019

Guitar Comfort Zone

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Guitar Comfort Zone

What is it? Possibly, if you’re a guitar player, it’s the best place imaginable.
It’s where you want to spend all of your time when behind the neck of your favorite guitar. Bond with your guitar!
The weight, the girth, the neck, the action, the balance and built in curves influence your guitar comfort zone.
Sometimes you play a guitar and instantly it’s a joy to play. Feel is most important, more so than any other aspect of your instrument.
As builders, we can assemble the finest materials and mate them in the best ways possible, but if a player doesn’t enjoy the feel then nothing else really matters.
A guitar needs care from the moment it’s produced to the time it gets to you.
The body and neck must work well together. All other parts must be in harmony with each other.

image Haywire Custom Guitars-Custom double cutaway with amber bound neck and block inlays.

Comfort mods include, tummy cuts in the back of the guitar for better more ergonomic fit with the human body. Because the cut makes the guitar body fit the human body closer. The feel is softer with comfort curves that feel more natural to us. Other comfort issues include smaller and thinner guitar necks. In addition players with medical issues such as tendonitis, we work with them. Guitar neck shaving is done to slim down the neck for ease of play. Other comfort mods have to do with a guitar players hand size, and reach on the “heel crest area of the neck”.

These mods help a player feel more comfortable

Still other guitar comfort mods include slimming down the general thickness of the neck, the width of the neck, radius or curvature of the top of the fret board, height of the strings from the frets, the scale length of a neck, string gauge, certain afflictions like arthritis, may have an effect on the location of the volume and tone controls. This affects the feel of the distance of the strings from each other. Areas as neck back contours can be very influential to a players comfort. Because all of these mods help a player feel more comfortable. And therefore they are more able to concentrate on the job of playing music.
As a guitar player you’ll need:

A well balanced guitar with light weight that you can play all night long.

Body contours in the right places, especially where your right arm lays.

Volume control is easy to manage while playing. One that retains the highs when dropping or rolling off the volume

A bridge that is comfortable to handle while palm muting

The strings are close to the frets board making it effortless to play the guitar.

Easy to grip neck with the right feel to make holding it a joy

Your Comfort Zone

When it comes to bonding with a particular guitar it needs to exactly strike your comfort zone at first touch. Nothing else really matters unless the guitar plays and feels great.

By Rick Mariner| May 13th, 2019|Better More Reliable Guitar, comfortable guitar, Custom guitar bodies, custom guitar by Haywire, electric guitar setup, Favorite Guitar, Getting guitar sounds and tones, Guitar Action, guitar comfort level, Guitar Comfort Zone, guitar improvements, Guitar Intonation, Guitar Neck Comfort|0 Comments

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Haywire Guitars-Guide for Buying Guitars Award Winner

GUIDE FOR BUYING

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GUIDE FOR BUYING

Out of the hundreds of places to buy custom guitars, Haywire Custom Guitars is one of the top websites to buy custom guitars online according to GUIDE FOR BUYING.

News from Top 25 Custom Guitar Websites. Quote: “Whether you play rock, the blues, country or another style of music, the right guitar makes all the difference. Custom guitars are ideal for beginners, expert players and even people who simply collect musical instruments.

Having a custom guitar means that it is made exactly to your specifications. The shape, hardware, colors and other components are chosen by you so that it fits into your hands like a glove. There are several companies who have an excellent reputation for making guitars according to GUIDE FOR BUYING”.

image Top Custom Guitar Website Gutde for Buying Award Winner — Haywire Custom Guitars Award Winner

I would like to congratulate Haywire on being the best of the best places to buy custom guitars online!

News from Guide for Buying- Top 25 Custom Guitar Websites.

Quote: “Whether you play rock, the blues, country or another style of music, the right guitar makes all the difference. Haywire Custom guitars are ideal for beginners, expert players and even people who simply collect musical instruments.
Haywire Guitar Repairs is your place for expert stringed instrument repairs. In detail, upgrades and servicing. Above all, every Guitar is handled by an experienced guitar technician. In particular, we get your guitar in peak playing condition. Check Haywire guitars official website. Largest guitar shop in the Myrtle Beach area with the deals on new and used guitars. Stop in for new guitars, guitar ideas, guitar repairs. In addition guitar upgrades. Professional guitar service and guitar repair in the Myrtle Beach, SC area.
Haywire Guitar Repairs and Maintenance, including:

Guitar repairs include: New guitar strings for your guitar, quality guitar repairs, set-ups, modifications, electronics repairs, re-frets
Also, Full 8-point setups
Intonation Setups
Action and truss rod adjustments, fret levels, alignments and more
Guitars for children
Light weight guitars for women

Guitar Fret renew and repair, specifically:

Re-fret
Fret level
Re-Crown
Polish new work and test
Recessed Heel Crest Option
All guitar adjustments

Electronics upgrade, Haywire Guitar Repairs & guitar mods, in detail:

Electronic modifications on all stringed instruments
New Pickup installation, hence better signal
Wiring customization with new pots, switches, tone controls, 7 Sound switching and Treble Bleed circuits
Personalized upgrades and modifications
Guitar neck shaving, thinning, profiling as a result, better guitar comfort.

Warmest regards,
Marife Lindsay
GUIDE FOR BUYING

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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

How Do I Know What Guitar Pickup Designs Are Best?

What Guitar Pickup Designs Are Best?

First you’ll need to understand what poles are and the relationship they play in a pickup design. Pickup poles are magnet posts that run perpendicular to the string windings in the guitar pickup’s coil to serve as a conductor for each string above it. Often you’ll notice one pole piece per string on a single coil is used. Some of today’s designs have one long bar pole piece, or blade, per string. Poles look like small metal circles under each string.

Flat poles are all the same height. The staggered poles have some poles reaching higher for certain strings and some are lower. They have a very non-uniform look. Flat-pole pickups simply give your guitar a better string balance. When the pole pieces are all level then your tone is more balanced. No volume on any string will dominate the others.

Fender Teles until sometime in 1956 had flat-poles. Leo Fender decided that since some of the strings were so far away from the guitar he needed to compensate and make some poles higher. In his mind, it would bring the volume out in the more distant poles for strings sitting higher. Now, moving guitar pickup poles closer to the strings does increase their output-only more windings will do that. However it will make the string louder.

Think about a pole as being a microphone for each string. Think about a singer. What happens as a singer gets farther away from the mic? The volume drops but the mic still has the same output. Placement is important!

Monday, April 29, 2019

Picking A Pickup

Picking A Guitar Pickup

High-output pickups are distorted and mostly unpleasant in the tonal spectrum. They generate distorted tones exactly as designed. The usage for these distortion producing pickups are limited at best. Low to mid-output pickups are more versatile and much quieter. They represent better and more clear, clean guitar output signal choices. They’re perfect for clean sounds, however you have the option of dirtying up your sound by changing your amp settings or plugging into distortion pedals. In the myriad of choices for amps you’ll find one that can easily distort at will. Most amps have enough gain to make any pickup generate heavy distortion levels. Picking a pickup just became easier.

Follow The Crowd ?

I know lots of people who only wear “name brand” clothing. So do you? What if there was something else that fit better, looked and felt better? Would they wear it? From my experience- No. Well, the same goes for guitar pickups. If you’re just a name brand Lemmings kind of player there’s no changing you. However, if you’re intelligent, independent, not easily lead by the crowd and find your own path preferable, then you’ll benefit from a great set of pickups that just sound good. Most of all, they have a good solid signal for you to process.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Does Your Guitar Need Work?

Every day at the shop we’ll do one or more of the following: Custom Guitar building, repairs, custom wiring, new guitar necks, Guitar Neck Shaving, straightening Guitar necks, Re-fretting, fret leveling, women’s guitars, x-light guitars, custom guitar wiring and one day urgent guitar care. We also have Custom guitars for sale in the custom guitar shop. Then also we’re a custom electric guitar builder online and custom electric body builder. So, doing some work on your guitar is no problem.

Getting Work Done Sometimes Seems Impossible

During the recent floods in South Carolina September 2018, our shop sustained lots of damage. At that time I called several contractors, businesses, professionals, and installers of all kinds. We needed help but what we got were reasons no help would be forthcoming. Over and over I heard the various ways no help could be offered. Lots of reasons and excuses. So, I stopped calling and just completed the work. I thought my time was better spent on guitars, but the handyman pros and businesses around me had other ideas.

Haywire Custom Shop Is Here For You

After several months when the flood restoration was complete we are back helping guitar players. Does your guitar need work? If yes, then there is no reason for you to put it off any longer. Get help today. We’ll get the job done for you. No excuses, just good work to help get you closer to where you want to be as a musician. Give us a call if we can help: 843-347-5742. We hear you. We’re here for you.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Custom Guitar Process

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Custom Guitar Process

Do you Want A Really Great Guitar? A Custom Guitar is a Process. It takes time to arrive at your perfect guitar. The custom guitar process for you will be trial and error at first. Then as you play and most important, what you play will determine what you need. Most noteworthy, about this question, it almost never gets asked. Seems like it would? In the Haywire custom shop we’re often asked, “Can you do it in purple?”, “Can I have it by Tuesday?”, “How about locking tuners”? Possible to put on a thin neck?, Can I get an 8 way switch instead of a seven? What does it weigh? Sure, we can do that, but do you need that? In the search for your perfect guitar you’ll go through a process.

players suffer when they don’t ask the right questions….

Choose the options that really make a difference when you’re playing. Let us help you find the best guitar neck radius for your hands. As well as, the best profile for your grip. Also, tuners with a good feel you’ll like. In addition, ask for the best setup which will facilitate your style of playing now and in the future. The custom guitar process may last for a few weeks to a few years until you dial in everything you really need. Start with instruments you can grow with and change to suit the music you’re playing and your style. Furthermore, remember you’re not getting a tattoo. You’re buying an instrument that will sharpen your skills and make you money in the future, so choose wisely! Then alter the parts as you play gigs and make small tweaks until you hone it into the perfect custom guitar. You work at your own speed and get the exact results you need. Start to mature as a guitar player. Plan, play and think wisely.

This is a great idea for your custom guitar process

Haywire Custom Shop-Floyd Special! This great Guitar includes an Quilted Maple top with all Mahogany back and sides with NEW Haywire Custom Shop neck +Seymour Duncan Split coil Mini-Humbucker in the neck position-split with the toggle between the Volume and tone controls, Haywire SRV Middle Pickup and a Lollar Imperial split coil in the bridge with 5 way switching is split with a push-pull switch in the tone control. Comes with a full setup and slim neck with recessed heel and contoured body.

It can be built- featherweight guitar or normal weight.

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Great Guitar! Haywire Custom Guitars Shredneck Nashville

By Rick Mariner| April 2nd, 2019|custom guitars, Guitar Education, Guitar repair by Haywire Custom Shop|

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Thursday, May 16, 2019

Test and Play First

Test and Play First

start with a good used guitar….

Test and Play….experience with a guitar will tell you everything

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Monday, May 13, 2019

Guitar Comfort Zone

Guitar Comfort Zone

These mods help a player feel more comfortable

Your Comfort Zone

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

GUIDE FOR BUYING

GUIDE FOR BUYING

News from Guide for Buying- Top 25 Custom Guitar Websites.

Guitar Fret renew and repair, specifically:

Electronics upgrade, Haywire Guitar Repairs & guitar mods, in detail:

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About the CEO: Rick Mariner

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Monday, April 29, 2019

Picking A Guitar Pickup

Follow The Crowd ?

Friday, April 26, 2019

Does Your Guitar Need Work?

Getting Work Done Sometimes Seems Impossible

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

players suffer when they don’t ask the right questions….

This is a great idea for your custom guitar process

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