The Guitar Sherpa

Bordeaux designs, hand cuts, and installs custom guitar inlays for well known musicians and 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 for their guitar inlays. Each is custom to your specific needs.

Small wonder offers inlay dots for musical instrument fingerboards in many different shell types and sizes. They also offer solid shell inlay blanks sold by the gram, mother of pearl and abalone inlay squares and rectangles, shell pre-cut for soundhole 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 and 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 guitar inlays that are done by Kevin L. Pederson. All are 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. Kevin does four types of custom guitar inlay: religious, scene, vine art and tribal/icon.

Brian England offers a huge variety of custom inlay work for all musical instruments, such as guitar, banjo, mandolin and dulcimer inlays. Choose from almost any material, shape and size, and personalize your custom inlay to represent your specific instrument.

Tri Evans Custom Inlays range from range from personal signatures to large intricate pictures. They offer custom guitar inlay services to everyone, not just builders. All you need to do is envision what you want and contact them. The materials used include black, gold, white and 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 guitar inlay work. All of her inlays are hand cut using patterns of her own design, or adapted from your artwork. Sharon 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 guitar and musical instrument inlays from your own unique designs. He creates just about any inlay using 7 different types of abalone shells, 39 different recon stones, 3 varieties of pearl, and 7 different metals.

Kingslight designs custom guitar inlay work from their own designs and also from motifs found in books. They can also work from your own designs. Kingslight primerily uses shell (abalone and mother of pearl), metals and woods for the custom inlay material but they are willing to try some other possibilities as well.

Tim McKnight designs custom inlays for guitars, including pearl drop necklaces, peace doves, logos, Greek symbols, eagles and snowflakes.