OPTIONS

Necks

• 5-13 piece neck $100-$500 depending on woods and number of pieces.
• Number of pieces includes veneer layers and/or wider pieces.
• Curly maple, ash, wenge, bubinga, paduak, purpleheart (selection varies)
• Carbon fiber bars $100
• Custom scales, dimensions and profiles available upon request

 

Fretboards

• Premium fretboard woods are available, market price
• gabon (black) ebony, macassar (striped) ebony, indian rosewood, goncalo alves, bubinga, birdseye maple, cocobolo, bocote, kingwood, zebrawood, pink ivory, bloodwood
• Acrylic stabilized fretboard (special order)
• Lined fretless $100
• Epoxy coated fretless $300
• Fretboard binding $150
• Alternate fretwire sizes and types avail upon request

 

Bodies

• Premium body woods are available at market price
• 2 piece end-matching is standard
• redwood, butternut, padauk, khaya, bubinga, sapele, black limba, spruce
• Accent lines in maple or wenge veneer $50 per layer
• Body chamber to reduce weight $75
• Chamber with soundhole $250

Tops

• Your choice from our stock of Standard (no charge) Premium ($200) or Exhibition ($400-$500) top woods viewable at http://gallery.bldesign.us
• Backs are also available and priced per piece
• If you don't see a top you like, most woods can be special ordered

Hardware

• Black Hipshot Ultralite tuners are standard, no charge for chrome, $75 for gold
• Bridges
• Hipshot A style is standard
• Hipshot A style piezo bridge with Graphtec buffer $325
• ETS Tuning Fork bridge engraved with BLDesign logo $75
• ETS Tuning Fork piezo bridge with Bartolini buffer $400
• Recessed Straplocks are standard

 

Pickups

• Nordstrand Fat Stacks, Big Splits or Big Singles are standard
• Dual Coils $100
• Switches $25 per switch (humbucker/single coil, series/single coil/parallel, etc.)
• Other Nordstrand pickup types available upon request
• Pickups by other manufacturers available upon request

Preamps

• Aguilar OBP-3 preamp, custom configured, starts at $150
• Audere 3ZB preamp, custom configured, starts at $170
• Nordstrand 3b preamp, custom configured, starts at $160
• Preamps by other manufacturers available upon request

Finishes

 

• Satin body and neck included
• High gloss body and neck $300
• High gloss body and satin neck $300

 

Inlay

 

• Headstock logo
• Wood (included)
• pearl $35
• abalone $40
• abalone heart $45
• Cateye markers in pearl $125 or abalone $150
• Traditional dot markers pearl or abalone $50
• Block markers $250-$350 depending on material
• Side markers pearl or abalone $25
• Bass clef inlay below bridge in pearl or abalone $75
• Custom inlay is available
• quotes are based on cost of materials and complexity

Other

• Wooden pickup covers - only available with Nordstrand pickups
• Black plastic with exposed pole pieces is standard
• Matching or contrasting wood covers $200
• Continuous covers $300
• Integrated pickup cover and ramp $300
• Continuous integrated pickup cover and ramp $400
• Exposed pole pieces on wood covers $50 to $125 depending on number of pole pieces
• Ramp
• Matching or contrasting wood $75
• Continuous  $100
• Full faced top $100
• No upcharge with purchase of exhibition top
• Magnetic electronics cover and truss rod cover $50
• Continuous electronics cover $75 (only with purchase of back wood)
• Knobs
• Black knobs are included
• Laminated wood knobs with markers $30 each

 

Contact: Beau Leopard • beau@bldesign.us • 585-615-6219 • www.bldesign.us

 

All prices and options are subject to change without notice.