Contact Project Music to discuss your preferences, such as the model, woods, finishes, and any customizations you'd like. Our team will provide guidance and ensure you’re making the right choice based on your requirements. Once you've finalized the details, you’ll typically place a deposit to confirm your order. Project Music will keep you updated on the build progress, and once your guitar is ready, it will be shipped to you.

Order Your Custom-Built Atkin Guitar at Project Music

Discover the ultimate in craftsmanship and sound with a custom-built Atkin guitar from Project Music. Atkin Guitars are renowned for their superb quality, tone, and attention to detail. Whether you're after a classic acoustic or a unique custom design, our team at Project Music is here to guide you through the process.

WHEN YOUR READY, Give us a Call (01329425125) or Drop us an email, sales@projectmusic.net

Why Choose a Custom Atkin Guitar?

Tailored to You: Choose from a wide range of premium woods, finishes, and hardware to create a guitar that fits your exact preferences. Whether it's for stage performance or studio recording, your custom Atkin will meet your every musical need.

Handcrafted Excellence: Each Atkin guitar is handmade by skilled artisans with decades of experience, ensuring the highest standards in both build quality and sound.

Personal Consultation: At Project Music, we believe in building a guitar that resonates with your unique musical style. Our experts will work with you one-on-one, providing advice and recommendations throughout the customization process.

How It Works:

Consultation: Start with a personal consultation where we'll discuss your vision for your custom guitar. We’ll help you select the ideal specifications, from tonewoods to neck profiles and more.

Designing: Choose your preferred style, shape, and any custom features, including inlays, finishes, and hardware. The possibilities are endless to create something that is truly yours.

Crafting: Once you've settled on your design, our expert luthiers at Atkin Guitars will begin crafting your one-of-a-kind instrument, taking meticulous care with every detail.

Delivery: When your custom guitar is complete, it will be expertly set up and shipped to you, ready to play and inspire.

Start your custom Atkin guitar journey today with Project Music, and create an instrument that will become a cherished part of your musical journey. Experience unmatched quality, personalized service, and a guitar that’s truly made for you.

The Process

Wood Baking

We started baking our tops in 2011 with the express purpose of achieving improved stability. As we’ve grown, many of our guitars are residing in countries with extreme temperatures and humidity rates, as well as traveling the world with professional musicians.

Baking reduces the moisture content and also crystallises the resins within the grain, a process that happens naturally over many years and has long been thought of as a reason vintage guitars sound so great. We also go a little bit further and bake all of our brace wood.

CITES

As you may know, CITES are a governing body responsible for the protection of endangered flora and fauna. In 2017, Rosewood sales across borders were restricted. This had an effect on many guitar builders as Rosewood is often used, for example in fretboards, headstock overlays or even on the back and sides. 

Thankfully, the CITES ban on rosewood has been lifted for guitar building so all of our models can be exported across the world.

Finishing

We’ve been pioneers in the art of acoustic finishes for years, making guitars that feel warm to the touch, whilst letting the sound of the instrument come through.

All of our guitars now come with our Aged finish, which features a unique Nitro Cellulose lacquer.

Our electric guitars follow the same tradition of aged finishing and give our guitars that vintage warm played-in sensation even when fresh off the setup bench.

Pickguards

All of our pickguards are made in-house using the best quality celluloid tortoiseshell. In our opinion there is no substitute for celluloid.

Each model of guitar we make has its own pickguard design, cut to fit it’s individual rosette. Our designs are inspired by original prewar guards. We then hand bevel and polish each guard to give our guitars a spectacularly authentic look.

Setup

The setup of a guitar is paramount to the player. All of our guitars go through an extensive setup process to make sure the playability is as good as it can be, from action to intonation. We choose to ship our guitars with Elixir strings as we feel they suit our guitars tonally and offer excellent longevity.