Guitar Repair & Custom Wide Neck Guitars & Precision Neck Shaving Services

Handcrafted to Play Exactly the Way You Want

Welcome to Haywire Custom Guitars, located just outside of Myrtle Beach on the scenic Waccamaw River in Conway, South Carolina. We believe that an off-the-rack instrument shouldn’t dictate how you play. As a dedicated luthier shop, we solve real physical and technical challenges for musicians by offering professional guitar setups, custom modifications, structural acoustic bridge repairs, and expert neck reshaping. We specialize in Custom Wide Neck Guitars-Shaving & Expert Repair.

Whether you are a gigging professional along the Grand Strand or a weekend player looking for a custom wide-neck build to accommodate larger hands, our workshop builds unique playability directly into your favorite instruments.

“We are musicians working for musicians.” Thanks for letting us work for you.

A great guitar isn’t just a collection of parts—it has to work perfectly for the person playing it. At Haywire Custom Guitars, we adapt instruments to your hands and playing style by solving common player frustrations:

- Uncomfortable Neck Profiles: We offer precision guitar neck shaving and re-profiling to slim down thick, fat necks that cause hand fatigue.
- Custom Wide-Neck Layouts: We design custom guitar builds with extra-wide nut widths (up to 2 inches) for comfortable chord spacing.
- Weak Tonal Range & Restricted Electronics: We perform custom pickup replacements and advanced electronics wiring modifications to maximize your sonic flexibility.
- Heavy Instruments: We source ultralightweight, ergonomic guitar bodies to eliminate shoulder and back pain during long stage sets.

Thinking About Buying a Guitar? Talk to Us First.

Before you spend your hard-earned money on a new, used, or vintage instrument, talk to someone who understands guitars from the inside out. After decades of playing, building, and repairing instruments, we know that the most expensive option isn’t always the right choice for your playing style.

Our goal isn’t to push a sales pitch—it’s to help you make a great decision. If you have questions about an instrument you are considering buying, ask us. We will give you an honest evaluation of its potential, warn you about hidden technical problems, or help you determine if the guitar you already own can be modified into the instrument you’ve been searching for all along.

See all of our guitar inventory here

Looking for a Custom Guitar? Let’s Build the Guitar You’ve Always Wanted.

Have you ever played one guitar and loved the neck, another and loved the pickups, and another because of the way the body felt?

What if you could put all of those things together? Custom Wide Neck Guitars-Shaving & Expert Repair?

That’s the idea behind a Haywire custom guitar.

We build instruments around the player, combining the features, specifications and characteristics that matter to you.

Depending on your needs, a custom guitar can include choices involving:

Neck shape and feel
Scale length
Frets and fretwork
Body shape and weight
Pickups
Custom wiring
Bridges and hardware
Tuners
Electronics
String spacing
Weight and balance
Finish and appearance
Playing style and tuning requirements
Custom Wide Neck Guitars-Shaving & Expert Repair

The result isn’t simply a guitar that was built to a specification sheet.

It’s a guitar built around the way you play with Custom Wide Neck Guitars-Shaving & Expert Repairs.

Already Have a Guitar You Love? We Make It Better.

You might love how your guitar’s body feels but struggle with a thick neck or muddy pickups. At Haywire Custom Guitars, we adapt instruments to your hands and playing style.

Precision Acoustic Bridge Repair & Structural Restorations

An acoustic guitar’s bridge is the heart of its acoustic engine, transferring string vibration directly to the soundboard. Over time, excessive string tension, climate shifts, or failing factory glue can cause an acoustic bridge to lift, belly, or separate completely from the guitar body. We specialize in seamless acoustic bridge repair, meticulous bridge re-gluing, and custom saddle and tailpiece modifications. We ensure your acoustic instrument maintains perfect structural integrity, pristine string action, and optimal tonal projection without requiring an expensive replacement.

Professional Guitar Neck Refretting & Fret Leveling

Worn, pitted, or uneven frets can completely ruin an instrument’s playability, causing severe string buzz, dead notes, and intonation issues. We provide premium nickel silver frets, master-level guitar neck refretting, and precision fret crown dressing to bring your fretboard back to factory-perfect condition. Whether your instrument needs target spot-leveling or a complete, clean teardown and replacement with pristine new wire, our workshop handles every neck configuration with absolute precision. We smooth out rough fret edges, level every millimeter perfectly, and preserve your neck profile so you get smooth, effortless playability across the entire fingerboard.

Custom Wide Neck Guitars-Shaving & Expert Repair, Custom Builds & Professional Setups

We combine your preferred neck shapes, hardware, and electronics into a custom instrument tailored to your exact playing style. Every guitar undergoes our exclusive 8-Point Gig-Ready Process to ensure optimal playability and performance straight out of the case.

At Haywire Custom Guitars, we can modify and improve existing instruments with:

- - Neck shaving and reshaping
  - New or replacement necks
  - Custom fretwork and refretting
  - Pickup replacement and upgrades
  - Custom wiring and electronics
  - Neck straightening and repair
  - Custom guitar setups and tune-ups
  - Bridges, tuners and other hardware
  - Upgraded components
  - Lightweight custom guitar bodies
  - Guitar refinishing and restoration
  - Custom modifications and much more

Sometimes the best guitar for you is the one you already own.

Professional Guitar Setup & “Gig-Ready” Instruments

A guitar can be expensive, beautifully made and technically functional—and still not be the right guitar for you.

That’s why setup matters.

At Haywire Custom Guitars, we look at the instrument as a complete system rather than simply adjusting one or two things.

Our approach to a custom guitar setup considers playability, action, neck condition, fretwork, intonation, electronics, hardware and the way the individual player uses the instrument.

We call the finished result Gig-Ready.

What Does “Gig-Ready” Mean?

It means your guitar should be ready to perform when you take it out of the case.

Not “almost ready.” Not “good enough.”

Every Haywire custom guitar goes through our exclusive 8 Point Gig-Ready Process so that the instrument is checked, adjusted and prepared as a complete player’s instrument.

Because a guitar isn’t finished when it leaves the workbench.

It’s finished when it works for the musician.

High-Performance Guitars Without the High Price

Our custom instruments are designed as working guitars.

Many Haywire guitars use a 25.5-inch scale neck, providing a familiar playing feel and useful string tension for bending, slide playing and lower tunings.

Our custom pickup combinations are designed to provide a broad tonal range from warm, articulate neck tones to aggressive, balanced bridge sounds.

The goal is versatility without sacrificing character. Your guitar should provide at will:

Clean rhythm.

Blues.

Rock.

Slide.

Driving leads.

Different players need different things from their instruments, and our custom guitars are built with that reality in mind.

These are true player’s instruments.

Why Have a Guitar Built?

A custom guitar isn’t necessarily about owning something nobody else has.

It’s about getting something that does exactly what you want it to do.

If you’ve spent years playing guitars, you probably already know what you like.

1-You know what kind of neck feels comfortable.

2-You know how much a guitar should weigh.

3-You know whether you prefer a certain scale length.

4-You know what your favorite pickups sound like.

5-You tell what you love about your guitar.

That’s valuable information. We use it. Your experience as a player becomes part of the design.

Why Haywire Custom Guitars?

There are plenty of places where you can buy a guitar.

There are plenty of places where you can have a string change or basic adjustment.

What makes custom guitar work different is understanding why something isn’t working—and knowing what can be done about it.

Haywire combines decades of experience as guitar players, woodworkers, builders and repair technicians with a simple philosophy:

The guitar exists for the musician—not the other way around.

We aren’t interested in making a guitar complicated just because we can.

We aren’t interested in convincing you to replace something that doesn’t need replacing.

And we aren’t interested in selling you a modification that won’t make your guitar better.

We want your guitar to work for you.

Serving Guitar Players in Myrtle Beach & Beyond with Guitar Repair & Custom Wide Neck Guitars

Haywire Custom Guitars is proud to be a resource for musicians in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area and throughout the Grand Strand.

Our customers include working musicians, weekend players, collectors, professionals and guitarists who simply want their instrument to feel and sound better.

Some come to us with a guitar they’ve owned for decades.

Some come with a brand-new instrument.

Some come with a box full of ideas for a guitar they want us to build.

And some simply walk in and say:

“Something isn’t right with this guitar. Can you help me figure out what it is?”

That’s exactly the kind of conversation we like.

Your Guitar. Your Sound. Your Way.

Whether you need a custom guitar built, a professional guitar setup, guitar repair, a neck shaved or reshaped, new pickups, custom wiring, fretwork, upgraded hardware, a lightweight guitar body, or a complete modification, start with a conversation.

You don’t have to know exactly what needs to be done.

That’s what our experience is for.

Tell us what you’re trying to accomplish.

Tell us what you like about your guitar.

Tell us what you don’t like.

Tell us what you wish it would do.

We’ll help you figure out what makes sense.

“From our luthier shop in Conway, SC, we specialize in high-end mods, lightweight bodies, and expert guitar neck shaving services designed to eliminate hand fatigue for gigging musicians.”

Haywire: Guitar Repair & Custom Wide Neck Guitars–Shaving & Expert Repair

Custom Guitars • Guitar Building • Guitar Modifications • Guitar Repair • Guitar Setups • Player-Focused Expertise

Built for Players. Modified for Players. Made to Be Played.

Let’s Talk About Your Guitar

Every player is different, and every instrument has its own story. Whether you are looking to design a custom build from scratch, need a specialized modification like neck shaving, or want to pull a cleaner tone out of a guitar you already love, we are here to help you figure out the best path forward.

Before you spend money on modifications or a new instrument, let’s make a smart decision together.

How to Reach Us

- - - Call Us Today: 843-347-5742
    - Direct Email: haywire@sccoast.net
    - Visit the Custom Shop: 2007 Lees Landing Circle, Conway, South Carolina, 29526 (on the banks of the Waccamaw River)

Tell Us About Your Instrument

Ready to get started? Drop us an email or give us a call. To help us diagnose what your instrument needs, try to let us know:

- 1. 1. The Basics: What is the make, model, and year of your guitar?
    2. The Feel: What do you love about how it plays? What feels uncomfortable?
    3. The Tone: What kind of pickups or wiring configurations are you currently running?
    4. The Goal: What do you wish this guitar could do that it isn’t doing right now?