Usonian Guitar Co.
Lutherie tooling & custom manufacturing

Products & Services

Precision tools, templates, jigs, fixtures, molds, and shop equipment for luthiers and guitar builders—plus custom design, prototyping, and small-run manufacturing.

Whether you need a standard tool, a custom template, a specialized shop fixture, or help turning an idea into a manufacturable product, Usonian Guitar Co. can work with you from concept through production.

Lutherie Tools & Jigs

Purpose-built tools designed to make guitar building more accurate, repeatable, and efficient.

  • Alignment and positioning tools
  • Bridge and neck layout tools
  • Drilling and routing guides
  • Assembly and clamping fixtures
  • Specialty lutherie tools
  • Custom jigs for specific building operations

Custom Guitar Templates

Precision templates manufactured from your dimensions, drawings, digital files, existing components, or design requirements.

  • Body, neck, headstock, and fretboard templates
  • Bridge, bracing, and rosette templates
  • Routing, pickup, electronics, and neck-joint templates
  • Inlay and specialty templates

Template materials

  • Acrylic
  • MDF
  • Baltic birch plywood
  • Other template materials depending on the application

Custom Router Templates

CNC-machined router templates for guitar building, woodworking, and specialized fabrication.

  • Pickup and electronics cavities
  • Neck pockets and neck joints
  • Headstock features and truss rod channels
  • Binding, purfling, and inlay work
  • Bridge routing and custom cavities
  • Repeat-production operations

Radius Dishes

CNC-machined radius dishes for acoustic guitar construction.

  • Top and back radius dishes
  • Standard or custom radii
  • Custom diameters and dimensions
  • MDF construction
  • Bare dishes or with sandpaper applied and ready for use

Body Molds

Precision body molds for acoustic guitar construction, including standard and custom body geometry.

  • OM, Dreadnought, 000, 00, Parlor, and Classical
  • Custom body shapes
  • Complete molds or replacement sections
  • Custom dimensions
  • Molds created from drawings or customer-supplied geometry

Side Bending Jigs

Side bending jigs and components for acoustic guitar construction.

  • Complete side bending jigs
  • Custom guitar body shapes
  • Interchangeable bending forms
  • Replacement bending forms
  • Custom waist and bout geometry
  • Forms created from customer drawings or specifications

Custom Jigs & Fixtures

Purpose-built tooling for shop operations you want to make faster, safer, or more repeatable.

  • Drilling, routing, and assembly fixtures
  • Clamping and positioning fixtures
  • CNC workholding
  • Repeat-production fixtures
  • Guitar-specific shop tooling

3D Printing & Prototype Manufacturing

Functional 3D printing for tools, prototypes, fixtures, components, shop accessories, and low-volume production.

Available materials

  • PLA
  • PETG
  • PLA-CF
  • PETG-CF
  • ABS
  • Nylon

Custom Design & Prototyping

Have an idea for a guitar-building tool, jig, fixture, template, or component but need help turning it into a finished product? We can help develop it from concept through manufacturing.

Services can include

  • CAD design and 3D modeling
  • 2D template design
  • CNC-ready file development
  • 3D-printed and functional prototypes
  • Jig and fixture design
  • Design-for-manufacturing assistance
  • CNC fabrication and small-run production

We can work from

  • A sketch
  • Measurements
  • Photographs
  • An existing component
  • A digital drawing or CAD file
  • Or simply an idea

Need Something Custom?

Many of the best shop tools start with a problem that does not have an off-the-shelf solution. Send your idea, drawing, measurements, photos, or existing part and we’ll help determine the best way to design and manufacture it.

Request a Custom Tool