Henri Guitars

11/03/2020

I haven't posted in quite a while, because true to form life has been getting in the way, and I could not reasonably devote consistent time to my passions... But that doesn't mean things haven't been happening. Here's a few builds I've churned out the last few months, the Impala and the Aeon. There are many more builds planned over the next few months.

We also still offer maintenance and repair services, so if you need anything, please feel free to reach out.

11/03/2018

Hey everyone, Jeremy here. I wanted to take a minute to give you guys an update, and explain why I've been neglecting this page.

Firstly, I haven't been getting notifications for quite a while, so there are a few messages that went unanswered. I wasn't intending to ignore anyone, and I'm terribly sorry that your inquiries went unnoticed.

What I really want to talk about is why I haven't had any updates on projects in a while. The past year has been really difficult for me, financially, and mentally. I had some pretty dark times, and couldn't find the will to do anything productive, despite unending support and pushing from the people around me. I started a new job in February, and I've been trying to work on myself.

My physical and mental health have been pretty terrible, for most of my life, but it got the worst it's ever been the past year, and so I've dedicated the past several months to trying to work on that. I've lost 135 lbs so far this year, trying to become a healthier person, inside and out. I've been gathering tools steadily, and organizing my shop space in short intervals, with a little help. Things have been looking up, but I'm still not in a place where I can feel confident in my ability to work consistently, with all the other factors in my personal life, as I had hoped to be MUCH earlier this year.

There are several projects in the pipeline, a few of which are for some of you. I appreciate your patience and understanding, moving forward, as I try to collect myself, to make sure I'm providing the best possible product I can. I won't settle for anything less than building the guitars of everyone's dreams, and so it's going to be a little longer before I can confidently kick off the dust, and fulfill the promises I've made to the people who believe in me.

Your support over the years has meant the world to me. I still get tagged in posts of people looking for luthiers, or fun project ideas, and I will never not love that. I just need a little more time to complete this journey I'm on for making myself the person I want to become, so I can turn these hunks of wood into the guitars you want them to become, without anything (including myself, most of the time) getting in my way.

Thank you, and I look forward to showing you something we can all be proud of in the near future.

11/23/2017

For the next week we're going to be doing a Black Friday sale on all services. (From now to Thursday, November 30th)

$40 setups (down from $50)
10% off all other maintenance or repair projects
Bring in 3 guitars for an extra 30% off the total price.

Shoot us a message for anything your guitars need, so they can play the way they DESERVE to be played!

10/21/2017

This is so sad... A world of legit luthiers, and there are people like this, putting our reputations into question. We're struggling to try and get set up, to actually provide quality builds, and refuse to settle for anything less, but this guy is out there passing off knock-offs as his own craftsmanship.... It's just disgusting. Sorry you had to deal with this Jared.

http://bit.ly/2xW5dy0 http://bit.ly/2xXl2cE

08/21/2017

This is what it takes to build a guitar.... All this dust, shavings, and cutoff pieces were made from this build. Looking forward to making much more dust very soon.

08/18/2017

In light of the first Reaver being completed, here's a cleaner, updated example sheet of our available designs... And a little tease of 2 secret shapes we're keeping under wraps, for the time being!

Which design are you most looking forward to seeing come to life?

08/17/2017

This has been a long time coming, and I'm sorry I haven't updated on this sooner, but the Henri Guitars REAVER-JH01 is officially completed! (short of a few superficial details which will get ironed out at a later date)

This has been very exciting, very stressful, and very tiring, but the prospect of building custom guitars has been in the works for about 4 years, and the stars finally aligned to make it happen! Thank you all for your support over the years, it means the world.

Stay tuned for an official demo video soon, and for more projects in the very near future!

Here are the specs for this guitar:
5 piece mahogany neck
Indian Rosewood fingerboard with rosewood binding
Compound radius fretboard (10"-20")
24 fret
25" scale
Brass nut
Hipshot locking tuners
Hipshot contour tremolo bridge
Seymour Duncan Mark Holcomb signature Alpha/Omega pickups
Coil split neck pickup
Dedicated bridge & push/pull neck volume
Master Tone
3 way toggle switch
Neck-through construction with a curly maple top
All the mahogany is stained black, the maple is stained crimson red, and the entire guitar is covered in a thin layer of UV cured polyester resin

08/11/2017

This is the last picture I'm going to tease you all with.....

Stay tuned tomorrow, when I reveal the finished product!

08/11/2017

Being a tease, 2 days in a row.

Are you ready to see this thing finished?

08/10/2017

So I said today I would have a huge update for you guys, but instead I'm just going to be a huge tease.... Stay tuned for more updates.

08/01/2017

10 days... Mark your calenders, because we're going to have huge update to show you.

07/18/2017

Who remembers the good old days when all our business came solely from Craigslist ads? Were you one of those old customers who's stuck around, waiting for us to do something interesting?

If you still have need of our services, and haven't been to us in a few years, fear not, because for the rest of the month we're offering full setups TO YOU for 25% off! All you have to do is help promote us a bit, and show us an old email or message string from back in the day (although I'm sure I'll remember most of you fondly, even without that proof).

Thank you to everyone who has stuck around all this time, I hope you can enjoy this as a testament of my appreciation for you.

07/09/2017

Sometimes you have to deal with some real nut jobs, in this line of work...

05/12/2017

Guess who's on Big Cartel, now!

Now you can buy a shirt, tank top, hoodie, or poster, in an array of options, to show support for our budding shop. The best part is that the system is completely automated, so it will check you out, and ship directly to you!

If you have any color combinations that you'd like to order, please let us know and we can look into either a custom order, or adding that design as an option.

This is only the beginning - coming very soon, we also have a specialty limited-run shirt design, inspired by everyone's favorite 'Vampire-Bat' from The Walking Dead, so be on the lookout for that and so much more being announced soon!

Get yourself a classic Henri Guitars tee shirt, and show support wherever you go! Color and size options will be listed next to each other, so pick...

05/09/2017

It might seem like a simple thing to do, but it's something that so many people, and even reputable shops, overlook when working on their guitars - and that is what to do with the sharp ends of strings! Here at Henri, we typically hide the sharp ends of the strings entirely, or at the very least minimize them so they won't catch on clothes, or flesh, leaving unwanted scrapes and tears! It also looks much cleaner this way, which makes a big difference in regards to your stage presence!

Let your guitar play the way it deserves to be played.
Let us help you set your guitar up for success.

04/16/2017

Sometimes, you just have to enjoy the little things - like beefing up a nice strat with a shiny new pickguard, and knocking down a couple of high frets, to make it play the way it deserves to be played.

02/16/2017

Big shout out to ADX Portland for cutting ALL of our designs into routing templates, for a super affordable price. We're really excited to have these on hand, as it is the next huge leap forward for us to start pumping some guitars out.

This is the beginning of more great things to come. Thank you all for your continued support, it means everything to me.

02/11/2017

Something to watch out for - most companies will leave a certain amount of relief in their nut slots in order to accommodate a wide variety of string gauges, without coming up short. Sometimes, however, a mistake gets made and a slot gets cut too deep.

In the case of this nut, it looks like they didn't change the bits out from the bottom E, to the A string, so they are slotted at the same size. This caused a massive amount of buzzing on the A string. You want the string to be seated about halfway into the nut for optimal string height.

Thankfully we're putting a heavier set of strings on here, which should fix this problem, but it's something to watch out for on used, and even brand new instruments!