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Haywire Custom Guitars offers “Pro” high-end guitars. The Haywire Custom Shop series guitars and basses are true players' instruments that put decades of the best technology from the past mixed down and tempered with quality parts, knowledge, experience, skill and innovative building techniques of the present. We then condense and distill it into a pure guitar on an outstandingly appointed instrument that is Gig-Ready!
The real value that Haywire Custom Guitars offers you is its small-scale size. At the Haywire Custom Shop we bring a wealth of high-end features and elegant design options to professional musicians everywhere. We feature choice tone woods, figured tops, strikingly beautiful finishes, figured and quartersawn maple necks with compound radius fret boards, specially voiced selected pickups that deliver masterful tone, overdrive, clarity, dynamics, transparency, versatility & balanced tonal response. Our Haywire Custom Shop Series of select guitars puts our top-line best features in your hands.
Professionals worldwide rely on an instrument that they receive from the Haywire Custom Shop. Our customers enjoy guitars made to their exact specifications. They play with ease, sound great, and are superior in quality. Our design features will compliment your sense of style. Haywire Guitars contain upgraded quality components you need at a reasonable price.
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Haywire 8-Point Gig-Ready Process
Haywire Custom Guitars has developed an 8-point "Gig-Ready guitar process that ensures all Haywire guitars are ready to rock from day one. With many years of development and guitar set-up experience, we pride ourselves in building you a guitar that is just right for you at prices way below market.
We offer a wide choice of body colors, hardware, and pickups to make your Haywire guitar a true custom. We promise that your guitar will sound great and feel just right! At Haywire Custom Guitars, we're....
"Building satisfied players... one Haywire guitar at a time"
Point 1: 4-axis alignment of the guitar neck
Each guitar neck is checked and adjusted to be sure it is true and straight to provide a proper alignment on all axis. This step promotes even action and allows for more accurate and easier guitar tuning, playing, and set-up in the following steps.
Point 2: Inspect and lube the guitar tuning gears
Before installing the guitar tuning gears, each one is checked thoroughly. Each tuning gear is adjusted so that there is no play in the mechanism. They are each lubricated to enable smooth and even movement so your guitar will tune accurately.
Point 3: Potting the guitar pickups
We dip the pickups in hot wax to reduce squeal and unwanted guitar feedback.
Point 4: Prep the guitar body
Upon installing the guitar electronic components, great care is taken to ensure that all wires are properly routed, spaced, and grounded to enhance years of trouble-free service with your guitar.
Point 5: Level and polish the frets
This step provides assurance that all of the guitar frets are level, eliminating any possibility of fret buzz due to unevenness.
Point 6: Radius the guitar strings
Most guitar necks have a contour over the top of the neck called the radius. We adjust the strings to make sure the height of each string follows the contour of the guitar neck radius.
Point 7: Adjusting the overall guitar string height and the action
Once we set the contour and radius of the guitar strings, it’s time to adjust the overall height of the strings from the top of the frets to the bottom of the guitar strings.
Point 8: Set the guitar intonation
This step is done twice. The intonation is set two times, with a 24 hour "seat-in" period in between, to allow the guitar to properly re-seat to the new adjustments
