CLG Custom Guitars

02/17/2026

Here are my Tele style guitars I built, it's Tele Tuesday at CLG. They are all for sale too.

06/28/2024

12/23/2023

I know I have been slacking on keeping up with my CLG page, so I thought it might be time to a new post or 2. My guitars seem to be flying off the shelfs, so I'm gonna post what I have left to sell. These are actually some of my favorites. And the pristine 66 Fender Bassman is also for sale. Everything is sold.

07/25/2023

Ron Holliday
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To all my Guitar playing friends out there! Shout Out today to my friend Chuck Gray, guitarist extraordinaire, plus guitar builder, luthier, & guitar repair wizard. Recently I purchased a D’Angelico Premier DC at a garage sale of all places. Beautiful guitar but it had issues from lack of pkay, etc. I took it to Chucks workshop today and he did a fret level/polish, tweaked the pickups, and a general set up. It plays and sounds like a dream!! Thanks Chuck. I Highly recommend Chuck for any guitar work you might need. See less
— with Chuck Gray.

04/11/2023

It's time for a new Tele! My brother inlaw has a place on St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. He called one day & asked if I used mahogany wood in my builds, sure. He said, I'll bring you a piece of native mahogany from St. Croix. I was not sure what it would look like being rough cut from a mill. And I forgot to tell him which way to run the grain, It came with grain horizontal, but I needed to build it anyway cause he went to a lot of trouble getting it to me. It was 2" thick so it took a bit of planing. I started laying out a Tele shape, (easiest to build). It had some splitting on the back side, so I cut it in half & moved the splits out so most would get cut off. I added another piece in the middle, but turned it 1/4 turn to make it solid. After planing & sanding & a quick wipe down with naptha, all that grain jumped out at me, way cool. I had a nice roasted maple neck that filled the bill. I thought maybe a mix of black & gold hardware would set things off even more. Put in a pair of Hot Rodded Seymour Duncans, & it is off to the races. Super nice guitar, plays great & sounds amazing. It will be a keeper for sure. Zoom in on the grain if you can.

04/11/2023

i took a short break from building Tele style guitars for about 2 seconds, long enough to build a flying V like I used to own. I had an Epiphone Popa Chubby V about 20 some years back, that I always thought was pretty cool. They are bringing a lot of money, so I thought I would just buid one, Mine has noiseless P90's, all CTS & Switchcraft stuff, block inlayed neck, & gold hardware. A real rock & roll machine. I call it my "Popa Chucky" It's sold.

03/23/2023

How many Tele style guitars should someone own? Well here is another one to add to the collection. This is a solid pine body, 21 fret neck, custom gold metallic lacquer & a pair of Gibson Mini Humbuckers. Why not be a bit different. Sounds extremely tele like for humbuckers, plays great too. It's sold.

02/15/2023

I was asked by a friend if I could make a really cheap guitar play & sound good. Not being one that dodges a challenge, I thought I might work on a couple of bucks down guitars.
The blue SG was the cheapest Epiphone SG they offered. On top of that, it was a total wreck. I completely stripped the body, actually I ran it thru my planer just to make it flat again. Through the neck away & ordered a LP style neck that was a bolt-on. I had made the body so thin I had to do a few mods to make that all work, but it did. I have always been a big fan of Pellum Blue, so I mixed up a witches brew & Sprayed it on. Added in a pair of my noiseless P-90's, good tuners & adjustable bridge & low & behold, a great playing & sounding SG type. Not to mention, it wieghs about 3 pounds.
The middle one is a new Squier Starcaster that had a broken neck. I didn't care for the sound of the pickups, so I adaped some hot Dimarzio standard size humbuckers in there place. Replaced all the electronics with CTS & Switchcraft. I didn't have a Fender style neck at the time, but I did have a Gibson style on hand. A few adjustments later & the scale difference worked out, it's now a 24 3/4" scale guitar. Again, dare to be diffent.
The black Strat was a gift from an old friend that came from Walmart. I was really surprised to see it was not a plywood body. A full set of Area Dimarzio's & all new electronics, plus a nice neck & tuners, bammo, a great Strat style guitar. I changed the input plate to better fit a wireless I use.
These too are all for sale at Boothill Guitars in Belton Mo.

02/15/2023

I know, I know, everyone calls it pink, but the name on the bottle said Rose. And besides, James Burton played a pink paisley Tele & everyone seemed to like it.
Well for me, I was looking at various ways to color clear lacquer & came across these powdered dyes. I thought, why not try something in a pastel color maybe from the fifties. I liked how it mixed well, so it was time to shoot something with it. I was finishing a new Tele style build & desided why not.
This body I made from Okume, a mahogany looking, very light weight & resonat wood. Added in a pair of Dimarzio hot rail humbuckers, a nice thru the body bridge, a 24 fret neck & locking tuners, for a real screamin guitar.
Some call this pink, I call it rose, either way a very nice lady & great entertainer named Roni Ward is rocking my Tele, go girl!

02/15/2023

I love all different types of Les Pauls, but I think one of my favorites was the early LP Specials with P-90's. Because I had a lot of mahogany, I thought it was time to build one. I prefer a bound neck in which the specials never had, with trap inlays, that they never had either. Installed a super set of ALNICO 5 noiseless P-90's. my classic double ring tuners, a very adjustable wrap-around bridge, & all the rest of the good stuff.
This was my first attempt a doing a sunburst finish, it was fun. I think it turned out fine. I desided to do a satin lacquer clear coat instead of gloss, I love it. A great playing & sounding guitar.
This one belongs now to a great player named Grant Greenlee.

02/15/2023

Dare to be different. I've been an SG guy since I started playing 1962. Always loved the body design. I was given a solid peice of walnut from an old fireplace mantal that was 130 years old. Not to let that go to waste, it was time it became something else. So I decided to do an SG shape, but layout everything else as a Les Paul. I didn't do the chamfer on the edges so it would look like another SG. I decided to do a bolt-on neck so if the walnut did something weird I could build a different body. The cherry red dye brought the walnut to life. Turned out great, very resonant. A pair of SD pickups makes this baby rock. Vintage looking double ring Schaller tuners, with a tone pro wrap-around bridge, & all the rest of the good stuff.
This one is for sale at Boothill Guitars in Belton Mo.