Custom Jam Guitars Designs
Roadster Electric Guitar - $2,300 USD
This guitar is the Roadster model.
- 25 inch scale (other scale lengths are available)
- Book matched solid ashe body
- Flame maple bolt on neck, bolted with machine bolts and brass inserts for an extremely stable connection to the body.
- Rosewood fretboard with gold mother of pearl dot inlays
- Natural bone nut
- Bronze metal patina finish
- Custom wound Jam Guitars pickups are available, or I have found that the Seymour Duncan Jazz in the neck position and SD Pro Shop P90 in the bridge position is a magical combination with everything from lovely clean tones to crunch to searing lead and distortion available from one guitar, with simple controls.
- The Humbucker is switchable from parallel wiring (traditional humbucking), to series wiring (hotter output), to single coil. Three amazing tones from one pickup!
- Custom Jam Guitars off-set body design for excellent fret access and body contours for comfortable playability; and its just plain sexy!
- Top quality hardware; Hip Shot Baby Grand bridge and Sperzel locking tuners ensure perfect intonation and tuning stability
- More pictures, buying options and a sound sample are available on my
Reverb.com store, just click the Reverb button on any page! Or go to my How to Order page to order a custom Roadster with your personal options!
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Shark Electric Guitar - $2,300 USD
This guitar is the Shark model. It has a set neck and I built it to twenty-five inch scale. The neck is maple with an ebony cap on the headstock that I inlayed with pieces of sycamore from the top and has premium Sperzel tuners. The fretboard is ebony with a sycamore inlay at the twelfth fret, silver side dots and jumbo frets and it is compound radiused from 12in (at the nut) to 16in (at 24th fret). The nut is natural bone. The body is alder with a gorgeous book matched spalted sycamore top. The entire guitar is finished in nitro-cellulose laquer and the back of the guitar is tobacco burst, including the neck and headstock. The pickups are TV Jones, a TV Classic in the neck postion and a TV Powertron Plus in the bridge position. The electronic setup is a three way pickup selector switch, one volume and one tone for each pickup, and a master volume. I also put in a phase switch for the bridge pickup. In short...this guitar is a TONE MONSTER! The clarity of each note is amazing. It almost sounds acoustic with only the neck pickup. The bridge is slightly hotter and can be put out of phase with the neck pickup if you desire the out of phase sound. Both pickups sound amazing clean, and produce a "super tasty" (for lack of better words) overdriven tone...its a blues/country/rock or jazz TONE MONSTER! Check out the slideshow at the bottom of this page for more pictures.
$2,300 USD
$2,300 USD
"Black Magic Bell" Electric Guitar - $2,300 USD
Sold - You can order one!
This guitar is the Black Magic Bell model. It is a 25 inch scale, alder body, bolt on rosewood neck with ebony bound pistachio fingerboard. The headstock inlay is gold and white mother of pearl, the 12th fret inlay is an ebony block. The body is finished in bronze "black magic" metal patina. It has a Shaller stop tail bridge with brass saddles and Gotoh 18:1 sealed tuners. The pickups are a matched set of three Lollar P90s, and it sounds absolutely stellar! The neck and bridge pickups are beautifully and gravelly, and the middle pickup is clean and reverse wound. The controls are a five way switch (N, NM, M, MB, B) with one volume and one tone control. See below for more pictures and some close-ups.
The neck is bolted with four machine bolts and a back plate, with brass inserts in the neck. It is extremely stable and gives the sound and feel of a bolt on neck. I can also make this model with a set neck.
$2,300 USD
Sold - You can order one!
This guitar is the Black Magic Bell model. It is a 25 inch scale, alder body, bolt on rosewood neck with ebony bound pistachio fingerboard. The headstock inlay is gold and white mother of pearl, the 12th fret inlay is an ebony block. The body is finished in bronze "black magic" metal patina. It has a Shaller stop tail bridge with brass saddles and Gotoh 18:1 sealed tuners. The pickups are a matched set of three Lollar P90s, and it sounds absolutely stellar! The neck and bridge pickups are beautifully and gravelly, and the middle pickup is clean and reverse wound. The controls are a five way switch (N, NM, M, MB, B) with one volume and one tone control. See below for more pictures and some close-ups.
The neck is bolted with four machine bolts and a back plate, with brass inserts in the neck. It is extremely stable and gives the sound and feel of a bolt on neck. I can also make this model with a set neck.
$2,300 USD
OM Acoustic - $3,000 SOLD - You can order one!
This is an orchestra model acoustic guitar constructed with a Peruvian Tigrillo back and sides. the wood has very uncommon striping and a beautiful gold hue, and ribboning. The top is sitka spruce. The back strip, heel cap, body binding, fingerboard binding, headstock inlay and trussrod cover are all from a single piece of cambodian rosewood. They match beautifully and have a distinctive grain and reddish color tone. The top bracing is hand picked tightly grained spruce. The headcap, fingerboard and bridge are solid ebony. All the woods in this guitar are solid woods, no laminates were used. The headstock logo, fretboard dots and rosette are abalone. This guitar has wonderfully balanced tone that is full, but not boomy. It also has great sustain. Fishman acoustic matrix active pickups with volume and tone control are installed. Check out the slideshow at the bottom of this page for more pictures.
$3,000 USD
$3,000 USD
Cigar Box Guitars - These are all one-off designs; yours will be too!
6 String Cigar Box Telecaster - $425 - Sold - You can order one!
This cigar box guitar has a 25.5 inch scale and 24 frets. All the hardware is aged and looks amazing. It has telecaster pickups and controls and has a six saddle bridge. It sounds like a tele, but different; each of these cigar box guitars has a sound that is kind of all its own; I would say its excellent for rock-a-billy and blues. The neck is handcarved in murado with a super slick hand rubbed finish. It has a rosewood finger board with 25.5 inch scale, with 24 frets and crushed fools gold dot inlays, The body has a murado block through the center. The neck is bolted on. I build these using the same principles I use on custom guitars, they are musician quality and built to last a lifetime.
Different pickup combinations, controls, number of strings and scale lengths are possible and encouraged. Lets build a custom cigar box guitar for you!
This cigar box guitar has a 25.5 inch scale and 24 frets. All the hardware is aged and looks amazing. It has telecaster pickups and controls and has a six saddle bridge. It sounds like a tele, but different; each of these cigar box guitars has a sound that is kind of all its own; I would say its excellent for rock-a-billy and blues. The neck is handcarved in murado with a super slick hand rubbed finish. It has a rosewood finger board with 25.5 inch scale, with 24 frets and crushed fools gold dot inlays, The body has a murado block through the center. The neck is bolted on. I build these using the same principles I use on custom guitars, they are musician quality and built to last a lifetime.
Different pickup combinations, controls, number of strings and scale lengths are possible and encouraged. Lets build a custom cigar box guitar for you!
Classic Designs; Custom Made
Patinacaster - $1,750 USD - Sold - You can order one!
This is a telecaster that I built while learning to apply the patina finish on this guitar. The body is ash. The finish is done by bronzing the body (yes with actual metal) and then applying different oxidizing agents and oxidizing dyes. When the desired effect is achieved, it is finished in either laquer or urethane clear. This one is finished in clear nitrocellulose laquer. The headstock is a slight variation on a traditional telecaster headstock and has gold Gotoh machines. The neck is maple (finished in satin polyurethane) and the fretboard is rosewood (compound radiused 12 to 16) with gold mother of pearl dots, jumbo frets and a natural bone nut. All the hardware is gold with black control knobs, and the pickups are Fender Custom Shop "Texas Special's". This guitar looks and sounds amazing! Check out the slideshow at the bottom of this page for more pictures.
This guitar is sold, but I would love to build a custom telecaster for you!
This guitar is sold, but I would love to build a custom telecaster for you!
Satin Blackguard Telecaster - $1,699 - Sold - you can order one!
This is an alder body, maple neck and walnut fingerboard. The paint is satin black automotive enamel. The pickguard is single ply black. The neck is a twelve inch radius, 22 fret, 25.5 inch scale walnut fretboard, and a hard maple neck finished in aged varnish stain and satin polyurethane. The nut is unbleached bone and the saddles are brass. The neck is a bolt-on with brass inserts in the neck and 1/4 inch machine bolts that make it extremely stable while retaining the sound, adjustment and playability of a bolt on neck.
Something different about this guitar is that the strings are not through the body. It has an easy playing lower string tension that is very comfortable and reduces hand fatigue. On request, I can convert this guitar to a string through setup, and then you can have the option of stringing it either through the body or not.
This guitar has Fender custom shop "Texas Special" pickups with the four way pickup selector switch that gives you all the typical tele pickup configurations plus an "in series" selection that has more gain and is fatter sounding. It looks and sounds amazing at a price that is much less than a typical American made tele.
This is an alder body, maple neck and walnut fingerboard. The paint is satin black automotive enamel. The pickguard is single ply black. The neck is a twelve inch radius, 22 fret, 25.5 inch scale walnut fretboard, and a hard maple neck finished in aged varnish stain and satin polyurethane. The nut is unbleached bone and the saddles are brass. The neck is a bolt-on with brass inserts in the neck and 1/4 inch machine bolts that make it extremely stable while retaining the sound, adjustment and playability of a bolt on neck.
Something different about this guitar is that the strings are not through the body. It has an easy playing lower string tension that is very comfortable and reduces hand fatigue. On request, I can convert this guitar to a string through setup, and then you can have the option of stringing it either through the body or not.
This guitar has Fender custom shop "Texas Special" pickups with the four way pickup selector switch that gives you all the typical tele pickup configurations plus an "in series" selection that has more gain and is fatter sounding. It looks and sounds amazing at a price that is much less than a typical American made tele.
This is the Satin Blackguard Tele with custom pinstriping. These guitars are hand painted one-off designs and cannot be reproduced. This one is sold, yours will be another one of a kind!
Leave a message on my home page or email me (james@jamguitarsusa.com) if you are interested.
SOLD - You can order one!
Leave a message on my home page or email me (james@jamguitarsusa.com) if you are interested.
SOLD - You can order one!
Custom Strat style - $2,500 - Sold - You can order one!
This guitar is an alder body, maple neck with truss rod at body end of the neck. The fretboard is maple with tortoise shell block inlay and jumbo nickel silver frets. This guitar has a reverse headstock and top quality Gotoh left hand tuners. The body is metallic black laquer. This guitar has custom wound Jam Guitars single coil pickups and a custom control configuration. It has one volume and one tone, and a tone selector that lets you change between three different tone capacitors. The bridge pickup is wide open, only has volume control on it, no tone control. The bridge on this guitar is a Fender Highway 51 vintage spec tremolo bridge.
This guitar also has a natural geode inlayed below the bridge. A geode is a beautiful natural stone. They form in many colors and they take about 1 million years to form their natural beauty. I think this one compliments the colors on this guitar well...a beautiful guitar can only bring beautiful mojo!
$2,500 - built to order
This guitar is an alder body, maple neck with truss rod at body end of the neck. The fretboard is maple with tortoise shell block inlay and jumbo nickel silver frets. This guitar has a reverse headstock and top quality Gotoh left hand tuners. The body is metallic black laquer. This guitar has custom wound Jam Guitars single coil pickups and a custom control configuration. It has one volume and one tone, and a tone selector that lets you change between three different tone capacitors. The bridge pickup is wide open, only has volume control on it, no tone control. The bridge on this guitar is a Fender Highway 51 vintage spec tremolo bridge.
This guitar also has a natural geode inlayed below the bridge. A geode is a beautiful natural stone. They form in many colors and they take about 1 million years to form their natural beauty. I think this one compliments the colors on this guitar well...a beautiful guitar can only bring beautiful mojo!
$2,500 - built to order