Apex Custom Guitars

HANDBUILT IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINAONE LUTHIER — ONE BENCH — ONE GUITAR AT A TIMEDESIGN YOURS IN 3DHANDBUILT IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINAONE LUTHIER — ONE BENCH — ONE GUITAR AT A TIMEDESIGN YOURS IN 3DHANDBUILT IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINAONE LUTHIER — ONE BENCH — ONE GUITAR AT A TIMEDESIGN YOURS IN 3DHANDBUILT IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINAONE LUTHIER — ONE BENCH — ONE GUITAR AT A TIMEDESIGN YOURS IN 3D
Featured build
Atlas Offset

$1,980 USD

Lead time · 4–6 weeks

Built with parts from

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/ Featured

Featured products

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Harbor Doublecut

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/ The Designer

Build the one

that's yours.

Choose a body shape, swap headstocks, drop in pickups, paint it any colour, and lay down your own artwork. Every spec — every detail — yours.

Open the 3D designer

/ How it's made

Spec & quote

You design in 3D. We confirm the build sheet and lock in the final number.

Bench build

Body cut, neck shaped, frets levelled — by hand, by one luthier, start to finish.

Setup & ship

Strung, intonated, and played in before the case ever closes.

/ Promise

A guitar you'll keep
— for life.

Built one at a time

Single-luthier workshop. Your guitar isn't on a line.

Lifetime fretwork

Free dress + setup for as long as you own it.

Worldwide shipping

Insured, tracked, and string-tuned before it ships.

/ Materials

Made with the
good stuff.

Mahogany from a single sustainable mill, tops picked by hand, and a nitro finish that ages the way a guitar should.

MAHOGANYFLAME MAPLEROSEWOODEBONYNITRO LACQUERBONE & TUSQ

/ Your turn

Ready to build

yours?

Open the 3D designer, spec it out, and we'll get back to you within 24 hours with a build sheet and final quote.

Hand-built in Charlotte, North Carolina · Free U.S. shipping · Lifetime warranty