Wooden Song Boats
When you play a Chickenhouse Guitar, you will have more chances of creating life saving music for others than you would if you weren’t playing a guitar at all.
Building Musical Foundations
A Chickenhouse Guitar lacks nothing when it comes to tone, clarity, playability, and feel. I’m glad I know what they are like and I know you’re jealous. Totes.
Tone
They make sounds and play just like a real guitar!
Made of Wood!
I generally use tonewood from Luthier’s Mercantile. I’m partial to domestic rosewoods, spruce, mahogany, maple. The usual stuff.
3D Printing
I use custom 3D printed jigs, logos, guides, and other interesting nipple clamps to make these instruments.
Advice?
If you want one of these things and have ideas about how you want it to come together, let me know. We can stew on it.
Support
I don’t offer any sort of guarantees or warranties, but if you actually want to buy one I will promise to do my best to make sure there’s nothing that’s my fault wrong. I am not a big corporation with unlimited funds and insurance to dig into if your feelings get hurt.
I use glue!
These guitars are made with love, and glue. I needed six things to balance this section out, so yeah. I use glue.
Strings Vibrate and Make Noise
Chickenhouse Guitars have steel strings on them. These strings vibrate at certain frequencies which find sympathy in the wood of the instrument. The guitar itself is structured in every way to take advantage of these vibrations — to elevate and amplify them. The wood is carefully selected, properly dried, and shaped by someone who read a lot of books about it and watched a concerning number of YouTube videos. Is it magic? Probably not. Does it sound great? I think so, and honestly that’s enough for me.
Why You Want One
- Buy a Chickenhouse Guitar
- Pay more than you would at Guitar Center
- Chicks Dig It
“A Chickenhouse Guitar makes better music than not a Chickenhouse Guitar.”
Carlton Houston
Proprietary Human
Want a Guitar? Let’s Talk.
If you have something in mind, reach out. I’m slow to respond but enthusiastic when I do.