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Also, even after giving the luthier what seems your ideal guitar spec-wise on paper, there's no guarantee that the actual guitar that's made in the end will feel perfect to you - then it's not exactly right to just say "nah sorry I've changed my mind" even if you don't pay up front.
If you try out guitars that are already made and you absolutely love one, you can buy that exact one you love.
Note - this, sadly, isn't based on personal experience, just from reasoning (and wondering before your exact question)
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I see it as a bit of a gamble. I’m dropping over £3,500 on a guitar I haven’t played. I generally try a load of guitars and pick the one I want. Probably more sensible
I want a guitar that’s been “designed” and tested through some iterations to get that “more than the sum of its parts” vibe. Else your basically paying for a prototype.
I think there’s a sweet spot with guitars and amps where a small-ish company with quality reputation that isn’t going to go bust tomorrow is going to deliver a better value and consistant product than the one-man band and his band-saw, as well as the big hitters. And the wait time doesn’t extend by a year because someone got ill for a while.
Having said that, in both big and small examples, I’d trust more if simply bouncing off a tried theme with great reputation and choosing finish / hardware etc, I.e. Fender CS at one end or Feline at the other.
To be fair, I have to modify all be guitars to be exactly what I want, but it's just a capacitor here and a pickup there, there's really no need to start from scratch.
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I played a guitar made by a high-end US builder that I thought was stunning - except I didn’t like the colour - and the neck was too thin.
I placed a custom order and waited 8 or 9 months before receiving a dead-sounding, overly heavy guitar that I didn’t like, built to my exact specifications....
That’s a different approach to speccing out a totally custom guitar to your own specs, where the risk is that your hollow ash bodied SG with carved Koa top and bolt on roasted mahogany neck with maple board and Flying V headstock turns out to be a bit of a dog, and different again from speccing a custom factory built guitar made essentially with pre-made off the shelf components bolted together for you.