The Guitar Sherpa

Bordeaux designs, hand cuts, and installs custom inlays for well known musicians as well as guitar builders. You may contact him to discuss what you wish to have and he can work individually with you.

Mosby offers fine custom pearl inlay for guitars, banjos and other musical instruments. Carefully selected material is hand cut and inlaid.  Humidors, silverware boxes, gun stocks and more can be custom inlaid with pearl as well. Mosby Guitars uses materials such as corian, sterling silver,mother of pearl, abalone, brass, paua shell, plastics, pink oyster, tagua nut, gold, copper, aluminum, different wood veneers and stone such as turquoise and malachite. Each inlay is custom to your specific needs.

Small wonder offers Inlay dots for musical instrument fingerboards in many different shell types and sizes, solid shell inlay blanks sold by the gram, mother of pearl and Abalone inlay squares and rectangles, shell pre-cut for soundhole inlay and body purfling, guitar truss rod covers/ block inlay sets/ crown inlay sets/split block sets, for guitar fingerboards, alternative inlays such as turquoise/lapis lazuli/malachite, specialist tools and adhesives for inlay work, musical instrument plans, and more. They already undertake custom logo, head and fingerboard inlays on behalf of a number of top makers in Britain. Some shapes include black Tahiti dots, diamonds, gold mother of pearl dots, inlay squares, snowflakes, New Zealand Paua dots, stars, and mother of pearl white dots.

Abyss Guitars offers custom inlays that are done by Kevin L. Pederson and are all hand cut, filed and then inlayed by hand. You can choose any style for your inlay, from simple dots or blocks to the most ornate; vine art is available. They do four types of inlays: Religious, Scene, VineArt, and Tribal/Icon inlays.

Brian England offers a huge variety of custom inlays for all musical instruments, such as guitars, banjos, mandolins, and dulcimers. Choose from almost any material, shape, and size and personalize your inlay to represent your specific instrument.

Tri Evans Custom Inlays range from range from personal signatures to large intricate pictures. He offers inlay services to everyone, not just builders, all you need to do is envision what you want and contact him. The materials he uses are black, gold, white, ad pink mother of pearl, red abalone, paua abalone, white ivory river pearl, sterling silver, and more.

Sharon Van Dusen specializes in one of a kind custom inlays. All of her pieces are hand cut using patterns of her own design, or adapted from your artwork. She uses white, gold, and black mother of pearl, abalone, paua, and Ab Lam, as well as various metals and other materials.

Brain Moore offers custom inlays from your own unique designs. He can create just about anything using 7 different types of abalone shells, 39 different recon stones, 3 varieties of pearl, and 7 different metals.

Kingslight designs custom inlay work from their own designs and also from motifs they find in books or they can work from your own designs. They use primarily shell (abalone and mother of pearl), metals and woods for the inlay materia but they will be trying some other possibilities soon.

Mcknight guitars design inlays for guitars. They do pearl drop necklaces, peace doves, logos, Greek symbols, eagles, and snowflakes.