The Red Clay Strays playing 3 Fayland guitars live at a show.

Hand-Built Custom Guitars and Expert Repair

From the workshop of Chris Fayland in Fairhope, Alabama. We build new instruments for everyone including touring artists — and keep your existing guitars playing their best.

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Setups, Refrets & Repair

Professional and expedient guitar setup, fret work, refret, electronics, and full restoration. Drop-off in Fairhope or shipped from anywhere.

Custom guitar plans made by Fayland Guitars

Custom Guitar Builds

Hand-built one at a time in our Fairhope workshop. Choose your wood, your pickups, your finish — and we’ll build the guitar you’ve been dreaming of in your head.

Premium electric guitar pickups custom made by Fayland Guitars

Handwound Custom Pickups

Wound on our proprietary in-house machine to your exact tonal target. T-style, S-style, Humbucker, P-90 and more configurations. Available for any guitar.

Black nitro custom Fayland guitar with fayland guitar amp in background.

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WHY CHOOSE FAYLAND GUITARS?

Zach Rishel of The Red Clay strays playing his custom Fayland T-Style guitar on The Tonight Show by Jimmy Fallon.Our guitars are trusted by professional artists as their main, go to guitars for touring day in and day out and have played on some of the biggest stages out there. We are also the only shop artist trust to help maintain their gear when they are on break from touring. Our setups and repairs are second to none and our guitars are built to hold up to the grueling rigors of the road.

Highly gloss custom Fayland Guitar laying on its front in a custom made Fayland Guitars case for it.We never rush the 200+ individual steps that go into hand making a guitar from scratch. It takes longer to do things the right way and we firmly believe in delivering the highest quality product we can. We cut no corners and deliver unmatched quality, especially in our price range.

Handcrafted swamp ash single piece electric guitar body made by Fayland Guitars.Have you ever picked up an older guitar made before computers and automation and it just sounded and felt different? The hidden mojo is the guitars soul. Only a fully handcrafted instrument can evoke this feeling when playing it. At Fayland Guitars we strive to give each and every guitar a soul. Each instrument is made to order just for you, just like they did in the 1950’s.

Custom electric guitar pickups hand wound on our proprietary machine by Fayland Guitars.We quickly came to realize that to dial in the sound our customers wanted we needed to make the pickups too! No pickup machine on the market was good enough for our standards so we built our own from scratch! Our proprietary pickup winding machine allows us to dial in your dream tone and build whatever pickup model you are after! Let us show you the Fayland difference, some of our customers have bought a set of Fayland pickups for each of their guitars.

ARTISTS WHO PLAY OUR GUITARS

The Gulf Coast’s go-to luthier

Whether you bought your guitar at Guitar Center last month or your grandfather handed it down 50 years ago, we’ll make it play like it’s supposed to. We’re the only luthier between Mobile and Pensacola who can do everything in-house: full setups, fret leveling, stainless steel refrets, electronics rebuilds, vintage restoration, custom painting and custom pickup work.

Most setups go out the door within 7 days of drop-off. Drop-off and pickup are by appointment in Fairhope, and we accept shipped repairs from anywhere in the country.

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