The most open-ended Florentine-body model, built solid or semi-hollow from exotic tonewoods with fully customizable inlays and hardware.
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Builds: Guitars · Est. 1999
Los Angeles custom electric guitar shop run by Ron Thorn. Ron started Thorn Custom Inlay in 1993, and by the mid 1990s he and his father were the Fender Custom Shop's sole inlay artists. Thorn Custom Guitars built the Artisan, Junior Ninety, SoCal, DeLuxe and Grantura models until 2018, when Ron became the first Principal Master Builder at the Fender Custom Shop. He reopened Thorn in 2024 to build heirloom guitars to order.
Founder: Ron Thorn
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Guitars
View all 9 guitars →Ron Thorn's flagship Art Deco-inspired semi-hollow archtop with a carved curly maple or spruce top over a mahogany, Korina or Black Limba body, built to order.
A cleaner-cosmetic Florentine-body set-neck guitar in mahogany, Korina or Black Limba, available solid or semi-hollow, built to order.
A Korina-body, fixed-bridge sibling to the J2V2, with a 3-pickup Seymour Duncan lineup and a Velvet Blue finish.
A bolt-on offset build offered solid or as a slim-line semi-hollow with an optional carved top, in Thorn and Ron Ellis pickup configurations.
A slimmer, flat-bodied solid-wood take on the Florentine shape with a wraparound bridge and Thorn's own staple-top pickups, built to order.
A bolt-on swamp ash offset with a Seymour Duncan Saturday Night Special humbucker, push/pull coil splitting, and Thorn's Brass Knuckle/TailSlide vibrato.
Thorn's semi-hollow archtop with a laminated curly maple top, reversed F-holes and a spruce center block, built to order.
Ron Thorn's bolt-on, Strat-inspired custom-shop model with Thorn VC-50 single coils and a choice of tremolo, hardtail or Brass Knuckle bridges.