Guitar Gallery

Guitar Styles Available

Wallpusher offers several pre-designed body and neck styles for easy playability, but for the

more creative types, we offer a myriad of choices so that you can design the shape and length of the guitar you’d like us to custom make for you.
Here you can mix and match body designs

We believe that there are features, proportions and structures that have been waiting for fresh innovations in the guitar music world. At Wallpusher Matthew and Margot are trying to engage that territory. We don’t believe that we have to settle for any conventions in music if we are to continue to move forward. When we make equipment, we want our creativity to be unleashed by that equipment and not defined by it.

Music is an art, an individual expression of the player’s musical talent. If the tools you have are limiting you, then challenge them and invent a solution. You can’t fight your materials! So if you feel that

your art or your music is held back by something, you may be standing at the edge of innovation. Explore that territory! There ARE solutions.

Wallpusher is a place where work is always being done, and innovations are always in progress. Matthew began altering instruments as soon as he got them. He lifted the lid on the family piano as soon as his arms were strong enough. His first guitar was soon reassembled into double neck guitar and his first bass radically altered and sold. In 1991, in his early years of high school he turned from carving wooden swords to carving a snail-shell scroll into a laminate of hardwoods which has been the basic style of his bass guitars ever since.

Wallpusher is a place where work is always being done, and innovations are always in progress.

The guitars and basses made by Hand by wallpusher are rooted in their experiences on the stage. All equipment is tested, not just in the sound room, but in the music making process. We have select informal gatherings after every instrument is completed, and we test our equipment in the hands of very talented musicians and in the midst of many musical styles. Our gear must endure and outperform expectations. Ideally Wallpusher guitars will lead the music world into uncharted territory.

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STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO GUITAR MAKING

We’ll be posting a specific DIY tip each week on what you need to do to make a guitar- everything from felling the tree or recycling old wood, to making and sharpening your own tools, and the specific tools that are needed for guitar making. Interested in guitar making? This is the place to learn!! Here are some books that I recommend if you’d like a resource for making a guitar:

Making an electric guitar may be harder than it looks, but we look forwards to exploring that territory with you, no matter how many steps it takes to get to that final handmade instrument! How much better will you understand the beauty and complexity of your Wallpusher Guitar or Bass than by following us down the steps we complete in making them?

It’s hard to imagine all the steps that go into a complex instrument like a guitar. Not only does it have to be structurally

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sound, comfortable, and light enough to play on stage; this ergonomic beauty also has to PLAY! There’s a lot of components that go into an instrument to make it perform, more than just the neck or just the body or just the electronics, it’s everything combined!

Let’s start out with a list of steps: 21 Steps to the lightest most playable bass on the market by Wallpusher!

Step 1:**(Locating and preparing the best wood from recycled materials)

Step 2:**(Drying and aging the wood)

Step 3:**(Making Tools)

Step 4:**(Flattening Wood)

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Step 5:**(Glue Bodies)

Step 6:**(Design Laminates)

Step 7:**(Plane Bodies Flat)

Step 8:**(Trace Design onto bodies)

Step 9:**(Shape on Bandsaw)

Step 10:**(Carve Bodies)

Step 11:**(Carve Scrollwork and horn)

Step 12:**(Carve Cavity)

Step 13:**(Wiring)

Step 14:**(Install Tuners)

Step 15:**(Fretboard)

Step 16:**(Install Neck)

Step 17:**(Headstock Carving and Laminate)

Step 18:**(Install Bridge)

Step 19:**(Finishing)

Step 20:**(Pickguard designs)

Step 21:**(Complete Neck setup and Action)

**(FINAL PRODUCT!!)

Here we have included a list of steps to making a guitar from monsterguide
To this list Wallpusher adds several steps when making a guitar.

Step 1: Neck and Headpiece
Step 2: The Plates
Step 3: The Soundhole Rosette
Step 4: Back Bracing
Step 5: Soundboard Bracing
Step 6: Body Assembly
Step 7: The Fingerboard
Step 8: The Bridge
Step 9: The Strings
Step 10: The Electronics