The Red Clay Strays playing 3 Fayland guitars live at a show.

Hand-Built Custom Guitars and Expert Repair

From the workshop of Chris Fayland in Fairhope, Alabama. We build new instruments for everyone including touring artists — and keep your existing guitars playing their best.

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Setups, Refrets & Repair

Professional and expedient guitar setup, fret work, refret, electronics, and full restoration. Drop-off in Fairhope or shipped from anywhere.

Custom guitar plans made by Fayland Guitars

Custom Guitar Builds

Hand-built one at a time in our Fairhope workshop. Choose your wood, your pickups, your finish — and we’ll build the guitar you’ve been dreaming of in your head.

Premium electric guitar pickups custom made by Fayland Guitars

Handwound Custom Pickups

Wound on our proprietary in-house machine to your exact tonal target. T-style, S-style, Humbucker, P-90 and more configurations. Available for any guitar.

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WHY CHOOSE FAYLAND GUITARS?

Zach Rishel of The Red Clay strays playing his custom Fayland T-Style guitar on The Tonight Show by Jimmy Fallon.Our guitars are trusted by professional artists as their main, go to guitars for touring day in and day out and have played on some of the biggest stages out there. We are also the only shop artist trust to help maintain their gear when they are on break from touring. Our setups and repairs are second to none and our guitars are built to hold up to the grueling rigors of the road.

Highly gloss custom Fayland Guitar laying on its front in a custom made Fayland Guitars case for it.We never rush the 200+ individual steps that go into hand making a guitar from scratch. It takes longer to do things the right way and we firmly believe in delivering the highest quality product we can. We cut no corners and deliver unmatched quality, especially in our price range.

Handcrafted swamp ash single piece electric guitar body made by Fayland Guitars.Have you ever picked up an older guitar made before computers and automation and it just sounded and felt different? The hidden mojo is the guitars soul. Only a fully handcrafted instrument can evoke this feeling when playing it. At Fayland Guitars we strive to give each and every guitar a soul. Each instrument is made to order just for you, just like they did in the 1950’s.

Custom electric guitar pickups hand wound on our proprietary machine by Fayland Guitars.We quickly came to realize that to dial in the sound our customers wanted we needed to make the pickups too! No pickup machine on the market was good enough for our standards so we built our own from scratch! Our proprietary pickup winding machine allows us to dial in your dream tone and build whatever pickup model you are after! Let us show you the Fayland difference, some of our customers have bought a set of Fayland pickups for each of their guitars.

ARTISTS WHO PLAY OUR GUITARS

The Gulf Coast’s go-to luthier

Whether you bought your guitar at Guitar Center last month or your grandfather handed it down 50 years ago, we’ll make it play like it’s supposed to. We’re the only luthier between Mobile and Pensacola who can do everything in-house: full setups, fret leveling, stainless steel refrets, electronics rebuilds, vintage restoration, custom painting and custom pickup work.

Most setups go out the door within 7 days of drop-off. Drop-off and pickup are by appointment in Fairhope, and we accept shipped repairs from anywhere in the country.

Customer Reviews and Testimonials

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Brought in a neck and tuners for a telecaster build. Asked if he could install them and do a general setup. Couldn’t be happier with the results it now plays and sounds great. Highly recommend.

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Thanks for the awesome review Alex! I’m glad we were able to get your guitar fully assembled and playing like it should!
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Maybanks Walker
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Chris is the man, quality work and great communication throughout the entire process, I trust him to work on any of my acoustic or electrics, from paint and repair to electrical and setups he can do it all

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Thank you for the awesome review and for trusting us with your instruments!
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Alex Rhodes
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I am the proud owner of two Fayland custom guitars, they are absolutely amazing instruments. I have Les Pauls, Ibanez, Fenders, Collings...and my Faylands have the most comfortable playability of any guitar I have ever had...I am already dreaming up my next Fayland as I write this. Seriously the finest instruments you could imagine. Chris is such a great person, and I am blessed and proud to be a Fayland owner, Order now cause his waiting list will be 5 years out soon.

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Thanks for the amazing review Alex! We take immense pride in our work and recognition like this makes all the hard work worth it. I hope you enjoy your Faylands for many many years to come and can’t wait to work with you again on your next one!
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I must say. I'm very impressed with the work and quality that Fayland done on my Gibson. I played it four times before the neck got broken. I was terrified that it could not be repaired. Boy was I wrong. I'm very excited to strap this black beauty on. They also did a lot of extra work on it that I wasn't expecting. It sounds better than it did at being brand new. I would highly recommend Faylands . If you need repairs or looking for a custom build. Give Fayland a call. I want take my guitars no where else. Thank you so much for your high quality work.

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Thank you Patrick, so glad we were able to get your Gibson all repaired and looking and playing like new again!
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Leaving your guitar with Chris is the best idea you’ve had this week. You will be paying top dollar, and receiving TOP service. Getting a good and expensive job done is cheaper than getting a cheap and poor job done. Chris’ time on your instrument is worth a lot, and the results speak for themselves.

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Thanks Abe! I’m glad we were able to get both of your guitars playing like they should!
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Stephen Sylvester
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Had my composite acoustic re-fretted with stainless steel, electronics updated, and set up to play like butter. The work is incredibly professional and got done faster than I expected, and Fayland was responsive to questions and kept me updated through the whole process. My guitar plays again like it did when I first got it, couldn’t be happier with Fayland and really glad I found them! Call your boy for all your guitar work, I’ll be going back again for sure.

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Thanks for the amazing review Stephen!
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Dustin Brown
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Came to this man for a re-fret of my strat and replacement of rusty screws. I paid $650, I think. Honestly, small price to pay. I now have MY guitar back. It feels brand new again. This man has a PhD in guitar repair and I'll never go anywhere else. 🤘

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Thanks for the awesome review Dustin! So glad we were able to get your Strats frets replaced and it playing like it should.
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Trevor
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Brought in my beloved Stratocaster for Chris to repair a little scuff on the paint, then set it up. Due to the unique finish it was a challenging paint job, yet he was up to task. I waited a week to write this review so I could fully appreciate just how well this thing is set up. It already played well, but taking it to Mr. Fayland was a game changer. Though incredibly humble, this guy could turn a baton into a magic wand.

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Thanks for the amazing review Trevor, so glad I was able to get your Strat back in order and playing better than ever! Reviews like this are why we do what we do.
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Michael Williams
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Took a severely damaged Martin to get repaired. Chris gave me a quote up front and got the repair done within a week. Excellent communication and workmanship! I highly recommend his services and will definitely get more work done by him in the future.

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Thanks Mike! So glad we were able to get your Martin all squared away and looking new again.
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Tony Tague
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Brought in my 40 year old Guild with some cracks. It was devastating. Fortunately I found Fayland Guitars and Fayland’s had it looking like new in no time. Incredible repair job and happy to have one of my collection back home. Highly recommend.

Owner's reply
Thanks for the review Tony! I’m glad we were able to get your Guild all fixed up and looking new again.