Reviews

Do you offer a one-piece body option?
HALO ADMIN RESPONSE: Yes, we can do that. Just mention it in the special instructions when placing an order and we'll be glad to build it that way for you. There will be an extra charge that will be billed manually. However, in some cases, it may not be possible. For example, a double-neck Explorer-style body shape built as a 1-piece Flamed Koa body would present challenges because of the wood's availability.

love the website but add more string options for bass like 7 and 8 string also make headless an option like fanned frets to have all the bodies headless make headless tremolo bridge for 6 7 and 8 also make headless for bass as well also just more options in general would be nice

Bass arrived safe & sound (great packing job!!). It's absolutely gorgeous! Only got to play it for about 1/2 an hour & was very pleased. I love the feel of the neck, the variety & range of tone. It does have a slight fret "buzz" (minor) but will have it set up next week.
Thanks so much!

Just received the guitar this morning and I have to say you guys make insanely good guitars, the guitar has turned out exactly how I imagined and it plays and sounds great. I was also shocked to find somehow it was still almost exactly in tune and still set up the case when I first opened it which I never seen before and iv done a lot of online guitar orders.

Just have to say the guitar has completely made my day and I can honestly say it surpasses pretty much anything I have played before in terms of playability and the finish is top notch. Kinda puts a lot of my other guitars to shame XD

Thanks a billion

Mark

Add the option to have a deeper cutaway so you can assess the 24 and 27 frets. Nice website btw

love the website, but they are a little overpriced. I am currently saving for one

Very cool, but i wish they had he Dean ML or Dimebag Razorback shape...and i hop that one day they can mix active and passive pickups together....

Received the guitar yesterday. What can I say...I am totally blown away. The craftsmanship and attention to detail is top notch. And not to mention it plays great. What a great job you guys did on the fret work and set-up. The color is right on and the Halo logo rocks. Thank you for building me a fantastic one of a kind, just want I wanted, ass kicking bass. Got a good hour of play time on it yesterday and its all that I hoped it would be. Can't say enough. Thanks Halo.

I happened upon Halo Custom Guitars whilst searching Reverb for "Evertune Tele". The Salvus model showed up and the first thing I noticed is that it is stunningly beautiful. Then I noticed the price. I couldn't believe I could get a custom made axe with Evertune for hundreds less than an Elite Telecaster. I had some very specific needs for a Tele.

I am the guitarist for the Chicago run of Hamilton. In the pit there are drastic temperature and humidity changes which can wreak havoc on the instruments. Hamilton is through-composed, like an opera. The only break I get is intermission. So I have very little time to fiddle with tuning. The problem is that I am constantly switching guitars during and between songs and tuning to drop D quite a few times. On some nights my tuning would be rock solid. On other nights, I literally have to tune twice in a song because a string may have gone 5 cents flat or sharp...it's just insane.

Anyway, when I saw the Salvus I thought, ' this would solve almost all my problems'. I contacted Halo the next business day. Jeff Lee answered and he has frankly given me the best guitar buying experience ever. I wanted to know if the Evertune could be bypassed on the low E string to allow for drop D tuning. Jeff checked the guitar and called me back in a few minutes and told me it could. He said he'd never even thought about bypassing one string. I also needed them to add another push/pull pot so that I could split the pickups individually. It was a nominal charge.

The attention to detail on this guitar is just phenomenal. A couple of my buddies are already on the Halo site designing their guitars. BTW, the Evertune bridge makes the guitar intonation better across the board. It is just phenomenal. Do I have a complaint? No, just a quibble. I didn't see the radius on the listing and was so excited about the other features that I didn't ask. This guitar happens to have a 16" radius. That's really flat to me for a tele. I have a couple other guitars with a 16" radius but my hands seem to prefer 12" or a compound radius. However, this guitar is very easy to play and sounds freakin' fantastic!!!! I am planning on getting another built with 10 or 12" radius.

In the final analysis, I am completely over the moon with my guitar...
Even the free tee shirt they included was very nice. So nice that I found the manufacturer and ordered six shirts from them last night. Again, attention to every little detail... just an awesome company!

Guitar is awesome, couldn't be happier with it. Color turned out exactly how it imagined it too. Phenomenal work!

Amazing guitars! 3 stars as it is quite over priced and you don't get a good view of the guitar from just that one image

The pictures of the guitar served it no justice. It's beautiful and sounds amazing! I have been playing on beaters for years and playing this baby is a breath of fresh air. I played a show with it the other night through my 5150 and Mesa 4x12's, and it really turned some heads! Now my bass player and I have halo customs and we couldn't feel, or look, anymore professional! We record our next full length in October and I'll be proud to bring this masterful machine in with the Evertune bridge! Great work guys! Simply magnificent!

Cheers!

First off, I'll start with the negatives: There is a small finish crack underneath the strap button behind the bridge, like someone dinged it, but I'm not picky and I got a good deal, so it's okay.
Second: When shipping large packages, packing peanuts suck. I spent 20 minutes cleaning up before I could even look at the guitar.

For the positives: Basically everything else. The guitar is fantastic, and having owned an older Halo seraphim, I can say the quality is so much better. It sounds and plays amazing, easily on par with $3-5k instruments I also own.

And also, no other custom shop has ever asked me how I liked the guitar. You guys have always had great service and this is no exception. Kudos to you guys on stepping up your game and building a badass instrument!

id definitely would buy if they had an option for a sustainiac neck pick up like the dimond series schecter

The premise is amazing, but the website is lacking. you cannot see the side view of the guitar you create, and can't zoom in either. The site also overcharges for certain colour, which is ridiculous as the price is already quite high. I would also suggest adding a vine inlay option, like on a Steve Vai guitar.

This website is great! There are a lot of options for the guitar and they're not hella expensive! I love it! I'm currently in the long hard process of saving for one of the guitars. However, I think it would be Awesome if you added a harpoon shape for the headstock designed after Randy Rhoads's polka dot Vee headstock and also add the custom inlay. If you added this stuff to the options, it would be great.

The way you can mix ans match part is awesome and i cant wait to build mine. I only gave it 4 stars because i can not see a side view off the guitar and i feel thats important...cheers

Great, but I would like to see more passive pickups for the acoustic. They get bad feedback, but have an AMAZING sound.

Love the option to have custom fretboard radii, custom nut width, and a zero fret.
I spend waaayyy too much time building dream guitars on here.

Would love to see some Railhammer pickups in the pickup options!

Wishing for more bass shapes and an SG guitar shapes. Otherwise, super super super super awesome.

Great in every way, although you should add 2 and 3 tone sunbursts and be able to mix different color bursts like how you have red-black. My bass is metallic purple with a purple burst, back and sides metallic black. A black-purple burst would have looked amazing, but other than that it is perfect.

I love building my 'dream guitar' but price is ridiculous

This is an awesome tool to experiment with - but I would like to have more viewing angles so I can see all the elements that I can customise.

The best one I've found so far!

This custom editor is really cool, I used it to design many guitars for fun. It's instinctive and easy to use, and the graphic representation of the guitar is quite realistic. The only thing it lacks is to include a graphic difference when you change the scale length in my honest opinion.

I agree with what Damos Walcott said: Add more color options like orange
-Integrate this with the custom guitar builder
-Add an option to make a zebra pattern with any color combo. I would also like a choice between Alnico and ceramic magnets.