Saint Blues Guitar Workshop

Saint Blues Guitar Workshop USA guitars built by hand right here in Memphis, TN. Birthplace of rock n' roll and home of the blues.
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Each guitar starts with hand-picked lumber for a custom made blank and is finished and assembled by expert luthiers ensuring a true custom instrument.

I told you. Going to be stunning! 🇺🇸
06/05/2023

I told you. Going to be stunning!




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New Bubinga top Delta Bluesmaster getting cut. This one will be a stunner. 🇺🇸
06/05/2023

New Bubinga top Delta Bluesmaster getting cut. This one will be a stunner.





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Okay, so I have a few guitar bodies to cut...
05/05/2023

Okay, so I have a few guitar bodies to cut...





One neck with green, one with blue.
04/28/2023

One neck with green, one with blue.






So many guitars... stay tuned for some stunners.
04/25/2023

So many guitars... stay tuned for some stunners.

Maple for Beale Street cigar box guitar necks starting production.
03/02/2023

Maple for Beale Street cigar box guitar necks starting production.

03/01/2023

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USA guitars built by hand right here in Memphis, TN. Birthplace of rock n' roll and home of the blues. Each guitar starts with hand-picked lumber for a custom made blank and is finished and assembled by expert luthiers ensuring a true custom instrument.

Back in production!
02/23/2023

Back in production!

Beale Street 4 String Cigar Box Guitar This cigar box guitar features our super comfortable solid maple D shaped neck. This instrument also features a bone nut and bridge, piezo pickup and Grover tuning machines. Cigar box guitars are crafted 1 at a time and will be ready in approximately 4 to 6 wee...

This is why guitars are pretty.
02/22/2023

This is why guitars are pretty.

"I took a length of 4 x 4 pine, put an Epiphone neck on it, wound a couple of homemade pickups and mounted them on the wood. Then I added a bridge and a Vibrola tailpiece, strung it up, and I had the Log. It was crude, but when I plugged it into an amp, it worked.

On a Saturday night, I took it to The Sheik, a little club in Sunnyside, where I played the same songs (on the Log) with the same trio I often jammed with, and nobody gave much notice to it. I was getting a very cool, unusual sound with this electric Log ... A piece of lumber being played as an electric guitar was something nobody had ever seen before, or even thought of, but it didn’t seem to make a big impression.

So I went back to the Epiphone factory, took the sound box of an old Epiphone archtop, and sawed it in half right down the middle. Then I braced up the halves so they could be attached to the sides... With wings attached, I took the Log back to the same club, and jammed again with the same trio.

And to my surprise, there was a great reaction. Everyone started talking about the unusual sound and asking questions about the guitar and my amplifier. There was a positive reaction to the sound I got that night, which was the same sound the same people had heard before. So I came to the conclusion that people hear with their eyes.” --Les Paul

Final days for our Super Sale. Use the coupon code SUPER to save 15% of all In Stock guitars. If you wish to place a cus...
02/18/2023

Final days for our Super Sale. Use the coupon code SUPER to save 15% of all In Stock guitars. If you wish to place a custom order the 15% discount will be added to your order before any charges go through. You can also contact me directly at [email protected] and I can send you an invoice containing all discounts. This is the best time this year to purchase a new St. Blues guitar. Sale ends Sunday 2/19 at midnight.

Check out cool guitars we have built. See one you like we will be glad to make it for you. Remember they are on sale!
02/14/2023

Check out cool guitars we have built. See one you like we will be glad to make it for you. Remember they are on sale!

Here are some guitars we have built for customers. If you see one you might like, contact us and we will be glad to get you a price and estimated delivery date.

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Who We Are

On the street now called Elvis Presley Boulevard, across the way from Graceland, Mike Ladd and Tom Keckler were doing something magical with guitars at Mike Ladd’s Guitar City. Seems whenever these boys laid hands on someone’s guitar, it just played a whole lot better. Hell, they even customized one for the King ordered by his father. You can see him play it in “Aloha From Hawaii”.

After Mike Ladd’s Guitar City, Keckler worked as the guitar guru at the legendary Strings and Things music store, where his skills and legend continued to grow. Here is where the “Bluesmaster” body was first designed, taking all the things he liked about his favorite guitars and putting them into a single guitar.

In 1978, Keckler joined Tom Anderson and David Schecter out in California to turn Schecter Guitar Research from a parts supplier to a guitar company. But anyone who’s ever lived in Memphis knows you can’t stay away long and in 1983 he came home to continue his guitar work, and joined the guys at Strings and Things to form, Saint Blues Guitar Workshop in 1984. Using the body shape that Tom and Charlie Lawing from Strings and Things had created some years before, the first St. Blues model was created and not surprisingly named the “Bluesmaster”. Sometimes you hit it just right. This unique guitar stands up to any classic design, and people who know a great guitar were quick to notice. Soon you would find a Bluesmaster in the hands of Eric Clapton, Bono, Albert King, Elliot Easton, Marshall Crenshaw, Glen Frey, Billy Gibbons... We could go on but this isn’t a book.

In 1989, St. Blues took a break, but like Memphis itself, you just got to come back to a good thing. Players and dealers alike wouldn’t let it go, so in 2006 St. Blues was reborn by Bryan Eagle. He eventually talked Keckler back into the business and moved to the current location on Marshall Ave across from Sun Studio. The initial product was a well received import, made in Korea, but with USA components.