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Why Buy Custom?


An Old South Custom Guitar will match your aesthetic and your style. Old South Custom Guitars offers  options from amazing wood grains in natural and eye-popping color choices to high shine lacquer that is freshly minted, with a perfect mirror shine or a velvety matte finish.
Or, if you want your custom guitar to be the legendary "bar room brawler" variety - all dirtied up, nicotined up and perfectly hand-aged into an immediate old favorite -we can do that too! 
Want something completely different? Just contact us! 

 

Why Buy Custom?


An Old South Custom Guitar will match your aesthetic and your style. Old South Custom Guitars offers  options from amazing wood grains in natural and eye-popping color choices to high shine lacquer that is freshly minted, with a perfect mirror shine or a velvety matte finish.
Or, if you want your custom guitar to be the legendary "bar room brawler" variety - all dirtied up, nicotined up and perfectly hand-aged into an immediate old favorite -we can do that too! 
Want something completely different? Just contact us! 

 

HEAR THAT? 

 (... that perfect tone in your head?)

An Old South Guitar Will Bring It To Life!

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  • Greg Walter
    Joe Caldwell’s outlook on tone and playability is simply amazing.
    Greg Walter
  • Ed Faragasso
    Scotty is meticulous and does excellent work.
    Ed Faragasso
    Faragasso Guitars
  • Rob Burchett
    I've known Joe Caldwell of Old South Custom Guitars for the last 12 years. He has set up many guitars for me and his work is outstanding.
    Rob Burchett
  • Tim Readnour
    Joe has been setting up and maintaining my guitars for 26 years now. He's great at it and I'm always extremely pleased with his work. He's such an awesome player too so when I found out he going to start building guitars... I had to have one! Fact is I'll probably get a few...
    Tim Readnour
  • Joe Dumas
    His vast knowledge of Vintage Coloring and Master Finishes are not only encyclopedic, but are flat-out Dead-on!
    I have been playing for more than 30 years, both professionally and just for my Soul and have owned many dozens of Guitars… The S-Style guitars he has done for me are some of the best I have ever played and believe me, I have owned and played many. I think he can do this because he is a damn fine player himself. To reach the high level that Scotty produces, he would have to have an intimate personal relationship to the music the instrument actually produces.
    The Sound… The Feel… The Vibe… and The Look… Scotty produces some of the best consistently exceptional instruments and finishes that you can get. A real treasure!
    Joe Dumas
    Classic Tone Guitars
  • Jonathan Brightman
    Scotty is a real expert and always delivers high-quality craftsmanship at a fair price.
    Jonathan Brightman