Updates

07/13/25

I am currently out of stock of ready-to-play instruments and I am in the shop working on several custom orders - once those custom orders are complete I will begin working on fresh builds for upcoming markets. If you would like to have a custom build made this is actually a great time to contact me!

***Price increases effective August 1st***

Due to a series of highly questionable decisions being made by the current administration here in the United States, price increases will go into effect on August 1st, 2025. This is beyond my control and will remain so until the next election cycle.

Tariffs are the reason.

For those of you who do not yet know, tariffs are NOT paid by the exporting country! For example, a tariff on goods imported from the PRC are not paid by the Chinese. It's a tax paid by the citizens living in the country that is imposing the tariff at the port, and is usually passed on the the next guy in the supply chain while that tariff money goes off to the Treasury to buy more paper shredders.

The fact is we live in a global economy. Many of the parts and materials I use to build instruments come from overseas - everything from electrical bits to sandpaper to hardtail bridges comes from an importer.  Pickups use copper. My tuners come from Korea. The maple I use for my necks usually comes from Canada. And yes, cigar boxes are most definitely imports.

I am always looking for the best deal on quality bits for my builds - tariffs make that unnecessarily more difficult than it would otherwise be. Yes, I can source *some* items domestically, but not everything. Doing this also comes at an additional cost, and it's not always possible as some things simple aren't being made stateside.

After the next announced round of tariffs go into effect my overall price for materials will be over twenty-five percent more than they were at the start of the year. I am a one-person operation and simply do not have the mass to absorb these increases. It's not a business decision I make lightly but there's nothing else for it at this point.

What will it look like? It'll be a twenty to fifty dollar increase per build depending on the hardware choices while I'll keep the diddley bows and other items at their current price point.

I'm not going to mince words here. I build good instruments and I refuse to cut corners because an orange-caked buffoun who has bankrupted multiple casinos is in charge of fiscal policy. If you don't like it, vote better.

~Wolf

Last update: July 13th, 2025