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    Pricing

    Since every guitar is made to order, we don’t have a standard pricelist, but they are around $2950, almost never above $4500 depending on what you want. This includes a quality gig bag, add $165 for a custom G&G leather trim hard case with a leather handle and custom fitted insert for your guitar.

    Shipping

    Shipping is $75 in the Cont. US, including full value insurance. Anywhere else, please get in touch for a shipping quote. I love international customers, I have happy customers in Japan, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, France, Norway, England, Germany, Iceland, Italy and of course, all over the US.

    Ordering

    Send me an email with what you want in your dream guitar, and we’ll talk and figure out how to do it. I’ll send you a quote and spec sheet that’s good for 30 days, when you send a deposit I’ll get started. The current ETA is 5-8 months, but can be a little more or less depending on what you want and availability of materials.

    Payment

    Once you decide to start, I ask for a 50% non-refundable deposit and the remainder on completion before shipping. Checks & Money Orders are great and I will gladly accept PayPal but ask that you cover the fee. I do my best to keep my prices reasonable because I want to get Red Rockets out to as many players as possible!

    + Warranty


    More To Come

    I’m still updating the site, and I will be adding a lot more info in the future, check back soon.

Red Rocket! Guitars

Red Rocket makes totally custom guitars, one at a time, to your exact specs with the best materials and components. Private Reserve level woods, vintage tone caps and custom wound pickups, custom binding and purflings are just the start. They mix vintage vibe with the best contemporary guitar building techniques to create modern classics with roots in the golden age of guitars.

Let us know what inspires you and what you want in your dream guitar and lets see if we can make you a modern classic.
Just imagine when you open the case, your friends go quiet for a minute,
then someone says:

“Damn! that’s a nice guitar…”

Red Rocket Guitars are individually spec’ed and made to order. We will make you the guitar you want, with the look, feel and sound you have been looking for, using the best available materials and parts from the USA. It begins with hand-picked lumber, each board approved by you, your choice of custom made purflings and binding, the best pickups, custom wound to your specs, custom finishes and colors, and your perfect neck. These guitars are made and finished by a person, not mass machine-molded, so every fret is dressed and polished to a mirror shine and the neck feels smooth and fast and is made to be played.

+ There are several ways Red Rocket tries to improve the standard guitar: (Click here to read more)
  • Machine bolts instead of wood screws in the neck, the neck is held in with more than 4 times the pressure for incredible tone transfer and no more stripped necks!
  • Sperzel or Hipshot Locking tuners – made in the USA, keeps even the big benders in tune.
  • Stainless Steel frets, feels like playing on polished ice, smooth, gliding string bending and they never wear out.
  • We also offer a variety of compound radius fingerboards, helps eliminate string buzzing and hand fatigue.

What is usually an expensive option on other guitars comes standard on a Red Rocket!

Matt Nowicki

“Guitars are intensely personal and have so much incredible history behind them. And let’s face it, they’re just plain fun. I love thinking up new combinations of colors, wood, and sound and seeing the instrument emerge at the end into something that has a life of its own.”

He’s the one who chooses the lumber, wires the parts, does the cutting, sanding, painting, polishing and he’s got the splinters to prove it. Many years ago Matt got a degree in sculpture and, after a few fantastically lucrative years (insert sarcasm…), ended up in London ad agencies as the guy who could draw and knew how to use the brand new (at the time) Macs. He worked as a creative and photographer in ad and design agencies, honing a sense of balance and proportion and how to add that funky, eye-catching little detail. He was eventually drawn back to working with his hands on real objects for real people and guitars became the perfect canvas.

Matt is currently working with Cliff at Destroy All Guitars.com and you are welcome to get in touch with him about any of the guitars on this site or to talk with him about a commisioning a new Red Rocket. The prices are the same, and you get the advantage of Cliff’s years of experience and on top of that he’s a great guy with some killer stories!

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