Wagoner Music - Our Music

Unlike many so-called guitar shops these days my first and foremost reason to run a guitar shop is that I just love to be around guitars. Acoustics, electrics, solid bodies, F-holes, you name it, if it has strings I probably enjoy playing it or playing with it. Many is the time that my dear wife has called me on Sunday afternoon to say, "Why are you working all day in your shop on your only day off?" The answer is that when I am working on my own guitars it is not work, it is a passion. Here are a few samples of guitars I have customized for myself over the years.


Stock Model	Custom Pic 1	Custom Pic 2

	This is a Cort TRG Chamber, designed by Jim Triggs who used to run the Gibson custom shop. Changes I made to this include: custom white pearloid pickguards and arm rest which I designed and made by hand, custom truss rod cover, chrome trim rings and white pearloid covers on the pickups and I switched the stock plastic dot inlays for genuine Mother of Pearl star inlays. A great guitar that play and sounds like a dream. One of my favorites.

	This was a truly fun project. I bought this as just a body, no neck, no wiring, nothing but a body. This is an ORIGINAL late 60's CORAL Longhorn body that had sat in a warehouse it's whole life and had never been used. I took a neck I had around the shop, covered the entire headstock with faux mother of pearl and did an inlay pattern of diamonds and triangles in abalone on the fingerboard. Then I designed and built from scratch a pickguard, control plate and arm rests all in the material to match the headstock. I used a Seymour Duncan Hot rails pickup, an archtop bridge and tailpiece, and the crowning touch was a pair of chrome knobs with pearloid tops.

	Yet another gorgeous guitar designed by Jim Triggs for the CORT guitar company. This is a TRG-1 in Robin egg blue. I added the white pearloid backing on the tailpiece, designed and made by hand the matching pickguard and added the gold chicken head knobs. Then I added the genuine abalone shell triangle inlays on the fingerboard.

Wagoner's Music Shop
Bill & Janice Wagoner, Owners
604 East Jefferson Street
Plymouth, Indiana 46563
U.S.A.
574-936-8714



These pics are just here because I like them. This was a Jackson Performer with a broken neck that I was gluing back together. The secret is a little glue and a whole LOT of clamps! ;) The other pic is a custom strat that was having the frets leveled.		I