Featured Artist - Stan Shields, The Inventing Shed
The Inventing Shed is a custom guitar workshop in Ashland Massachusetts. Stan Shields is a life-long guitar player and woodworker who combined his two interests in 2005 to found the company:
We design and build semi-hollow and solid 
body electric guitar bodies. Musicians wishing to assemble their own custom guitar buy a body from us, pickups and other hardware from other suppliers and do the finishing and assembly themselves. We provide a way for someone lacking the tools and expertise to create a one-of a-kind guitar they can be proud of.
Most designs are two pieces, the back is Alder or Basswood that is chambered for tone and weight-reduction. The tops are bookmatched curly or quilt maple or a variety of other interesting species.
Each body is configured for the particular bridge, controls and pickups the customer wants to use. We try to build a unique product that customers won’t find at the large production builders.
If you would like to learn more about Stan or The Inventing Shed, please visit the link below.
Stan Shields
The Inventing Shed
February 16th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Ive had work done by The Inventing Shed and it has been uniformly excellent. I am now drooling over some the custom body offerings.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 am
I purchased the spalted maple/basswood Wolfgang body pictured here on this site (one humbucker) and I am currently working on assembling the perfect components (neck,hardware,pickup) to compliment this amazing piece of wood. Stan does fine work!