1 - PMC Guitars, custom handcrafted guitars
- "Handcrafted" means that instruments are built by me alone with my own two hands. Of course I use wood machines, but they are simple traditional woodworking machines, therefore no CNC machines that work all alone.
2 - Advice and follow up
- In order to fully meet customer expectations, there is a continuing dialogue with the craftsman (me) acting as an advisor generating options.
- Instrument bodies are guaranteed for 3 years, while the necks are guaranteed for life.
All other guarantee details will be sent together with quotations.
- Each guitar is delivered with a PMC Tee shirt & a CD Rom presenting photos of the various steps of its manufacturing process.
3 - Woods
Therefore wood gluing is made under optimum conditions.
And wood species, selected with great care and stored in the workshop for several years, are fully stabilized.
- The customer has the largest choice of species, including unusual ones such as Padauk, Lacewood, Zebrano, Myrtle...
4 - Manufacturing necks
- They are hand carved and perfectly designed for the musician's hand.
- Also hand carved are the nuts, made of bone or Tusq.
5 – Neck joints
This neck pocket is done very carefully so that, even without glue or screws, the neck is perfectly fitted to the body.
6 – Electronics
Thus, for example, no tools are required to change the batteries.
- All cavities are coated with conductive protective graphite paint which secures the electronics and reduces noise hum and radio interference.
7 - Finishes
I prefer the oil finish on electric instruments for the following reasons:
- it provides a unique feel,
- it is unusual (almost all industrial guitars are lacquered)
- it allows the natural aging process of the wood to continue (much more than a lacquer)
- it allows modifications and repairs to be done more easily,
- finally, it is less expensive, which affects the final cost of the instrument.
8 - Inlays
The inlays are traditionally placed on the fingerboard or peghead, but anything is possible.
I prefer wood inlay, often more discreet and original than the abalone inlays.
In addition, they are more in harmony with the instrument when using neck wood to inlay the fingerboard for example.

