FOR ALL YOUR GUITAR NEEDS: CUSTOM BUILDS. RESTORATIONS. REPAIRS. MAINTENANCE
RIFF CARNAGE GUITARS
Your perfect instrument – at your fingertips.
Riff Carnage Guitars is a Newcastle-based company providing stunning sonic solutions for all things guitar. At the heart of the business is a passion for creating quality instruments designed to be played. Riff Carnage Guitars specialises in solid body electric guitars and basses, ranging from traditional-based designs to custom models limited only by your imagination. Specially sourced tonewoods of all flavours are utilised in the builds, and the wide range of options for pickups, hardware and switching provide a broad palette of sounds to perfectly match your style. As every player’s needs are different, playability is also a big consideration and neck shapes, scale and body shapes can be crafted to your exact specifications, creating the perfect vehicle to drive your music forward. Finishes can also be customised to your to suit your preference, from pristine and pretty to vintage and played in, giving each instrument a welcoming and wonderful aesthetic.
Riff Carnage Guitars also provides a range of repair and service options, so if your instrument needs some well overdue love and attention, it can be brought back to being its best in no time at all. From a much-needed restring to a basic set-up or a complete re-fret and overhaul. RCG has you covered.
Riff Carnage Guitars are made for players, and the company is the creation of guitar guru and local Hunter legend Michael Stove.
Please contact Michael to discuss Riff Carnage Guitars’ wide range of luthier, repair and service options and become inspired by a new or renovated instrument handcrafted to your exact requirements, regardless of your style and application. Riff Carnage Guitars, your perfect instrument at your fingertips.
Create Your Dream Guitar from the Ground Up
RCG can source any timber from traditional tonewoods to stunning native species, carve any shape, style and size of body and neck, kit the whole thing out with your choice of pickups, frets, bridges, tuners and electronics (right down to capacitor values). We can bling it, trash it, paint it, polish it any which way you choose. Your imagination is the limit.
Build-to-Order Your Ultimate Partscaster
A healthy helping of Tele, a tiny taste of Ricky and maybe just a hint of SG for fun? We can assemble a guitar to your exact specifications with parts from suppliers all around the world. What about a White Falcon with a Strat Neck and P-90 pickups? Your choice.
Resurrect that Poor Neglected Gem
You’ve been looking at it for years – sitting forlornly in the corner of the lounge room. It used to be your go-to guitar where you found solace and inspiration. Now it has no strings, broken tuning pegs and a big dent near the bridge where you fell on it on your birthday night. Bring it on, bring it in, RCG will bring it back to life.
Perform Professional-level Set Ups
Sort that intonation? Tick! Straighten that neck? Done! Refret that Martin D-28? Easy! Whether you’re a professional level player in need of regular maintenance on your workhorses or you’ve just purchased your first Jazzmaster that ain’t quite singing to you yet, RCG can bring it up to speed quick smart.
Maintain Any Old Stringed Instrument
It doesn’t matter if it’s a guitar (both kinds!), bass, mandolin, uke, banjo, oud, bouzouki, lute or whatever exotic stringed instrument you may own, we are up to the maintenance challenge! And we’ll get it done super quick! Please note: a Biwa might take a little bit longer.
