How to Order a Froggy

Do I go through a dealer or do I call the shop?

Custom Ordering Directly from the Shop

Choosing a guitar can be simple: you walk into a store, fall in love, plunk your money down, and go home happy.

But finding your “holy grail” of guitars typically involves years of playing a wide variety of instruments as you zero in on what you want. There are off-the-shelf instruments available that may stand out in one area or another.

We hear from players who have found elements of their “grail guitar” scattered among various instruments: the high end of this one, the bass response of that, the volume and balance of another...

At Froggy Bottom, when we build a custom guitar, our job in conversation with the player is to do whatever is necessary to determine as precisely as possible the nature of that imagined “grail guitar,” and then build that.

Unlike the custom shops of most other guitar companies – where you may be allowed to specify inlay patterns, trim details and wood choices, but the guitar is still made to their existing “recipe” – with a Froggy Bottom custom guitar, the design parameters including body size, shape, depth, scale length, neck dimensions, the neck/body attachment point, and the relevant proportions and contours of the instrument are all considered and chosen in consultation with the player in service to the desired results.

Every element of a commissioned instrument is decided upon based on your functional requirements. We have done this for over a thousand players in the last 39 years and the feedback we hear consistently is that we have far exceeded their hopes and expectations.

The very finest examples of our extensive inventory of rare and exotic woods are available only for commissioned instruments ordered directly from the Froggy Bottom shop.

Ordering Through a Dealer

We’re picky about our dealers. We’ve chosen folks who are really good at what they do. They are patient, knowledgeable, and are more interested in matching you with a guitar that will really serve you than in selling you their favorite model.

In this internet age, personal service is still the most important part of a guitar shop. Whether one of these shops is around the corner or a thousand miles away, we know from years of experience that they will take the very best possible care with you.

If you’ve spent an afternoon playing guitars at a Froggy Bottom dealer and simply want a few personalized changes in the execution of a model you’ve fallen for, then perhaps your best choice will be ordering through that dealer.

The Choice is Yours

If you want or need to be involved in the design consultations that go into a commissioned guitar, suiting every element to your own sensibilities for the sound and function of the instrument, then you should contact us directly about a commissioned instrument.

In our experience, working directly with the player is the only way to get that ‘grail guitar’ built to all of our satisfactions.

Of course, if you do fall in love with one hanging on the wall, well, maybe you should take it home...