After about 6 years of research and months of research into everything about guitar manufacturers, looking at sample guitars, and knowing how quality guitars are made, we found the best guitars for the money, and had them customized to sell to our customers.  The prices are much less than you would find anywhere for this quality. Actually you can't find better for less money.  These are high quality and great sounding instruments. 

The Acoustics are made from fine tone woods with proper bracing and structure matching that of guitars costing 10 times as much. The actions are close to the actions on electric guitars, but not quite because of the string tension. They are a joy to play and we can't stop playing them because this type of quality just makes you want to expand and learn more and more. 

The ease of play and the sound quality and richness of tone, beckons you to learn and to enjoy without the normal finger stress on cheaper guitars. The prices are just amazing for this level of high quality instruments. I hope you will take advantage and enjoy these great instruments, with our money back guarantee, you can't go wrong.

The Gruver Electric guitars have some amazing tones and versatility. The Apache is a fully featured rock guitar and “shredder” if you want. The LP models of the Chippewa guitars have that famous look and feel, with less than ½ the price of other brands. These are some of our favorite models to play as well. The problem for us now, is which guitar model we want to play. The Shawnee ST models are pretty much the same or better quality than the original mex models. When you plug in a Gruver to a Quality Gruver Tube amp, it just rips out good rock, blues, or jazz sounds like any professional guitar and amp combo. The Gruver GT-30 tube amp is LOUD as a 60 amp solid state guitar amp, and the tones are all the way from super clean to extremely dirty and grunge if you like. The GT -30 Tube amp is on back order right now, so if you want one, better get on the list and put down a deposit. It is a killer amp that beats out all of the “big boy” brand name amps for about ½ the cost for better quality. We have completely taken apart this amp and it is better made than most any of the modern tube amps we have seen.

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Here is what Jim has to say about these guitars:

I have played for so long that I am embarrassed to say it.
1964.  And I have played from high end brands and all the way to junk that hurts your fingers to play.
I have learned to play open E, open D, Open C, Drop D, Open G, normal tuning and, Drop D with  high E string tuned to D.

I play in a band.  I have a Fender Deluxe American Strat, With HSS fender pickups, ash body and all the things that make a guitar good to play. It is a great guitar!

I have not played it for over a year, since I got the Gruver guitars.  I set them up myself, with intonation, and total neck, nut and bridge adjustments.
I cannot even adjust the nut on my fender, because it is a roller nut without removing it and filing down the mount.  It has the strings too high at the nut which pulls the guitar sharp when you play the first fret. I normally don't play on the first fret, because I play mostly lead. 

Once you play a Gruver, after it is set up, you will tell others that they are crazy to buy a Fender or Gibson for those prices for a stage or recording guitar. For a keepsake, or for collectors value, maybe.  You can play a Gruver hard and not feel bad about scratching it.  You can buy 6 Gruver Chippewa's  for the price of one Gibson Les Paul.  You can customize them with pickups, the best pick ups you can find and still save $2000 and have a better sounding guitar than any standard Gibson, because you made it the way you wanted.  However, the Gruver pickups that come with them are modeled after the 1959 more intense growling sound that made Led Zeplin popular.

I spent over 6 years studying all the ways guitars are designed and manufactured. I am an engineer and have designed other things that are better than the competition (the, now famous Haven Spas).

 I am so crazy about perfection that I study down to: how the fretboard is to be laid out down to the .001 of an inch, how to determine if the wood is dried properly and kept under control during the manufacturing so that the woods work together to stop warping.  This is what I do with all the products I offer. The tonewoods on the acoustics are chosen by the sound they produce. We use either spruce or cedar, because they sound like a guitar is supposed to sound. 

I spent over a 18 months at least 8 hours a day,  investigating all the guitar manufacturers in the world, contacting them and asking all sorts of detailed questions. I started getting samples and spent some amounts of money on that.  The Chinese are good people, and they are happy to be living above the poverty line, so I have no political nonsense that makes me feel they are not our human brothers, with the same needs and wants.  The Communist government is something I don't like at all.  After many years of poverty t hey realized that people need to be creative and work and own their own businesses.  I support that.

I found the company in China, trained by Gibson and they make 800 units per month for Gibson in China. It is apparent immediately the difference in quality when you pick one up and play it.  The manufacturing plant manager was personally trained by Gibson in Korea.   Since all the manufacturing is now moved to China; the Korean fellow moved to China in order to have a job.  We actually have boxes with the Epiphone logo inside the box, out of register.  The printing was defective, so they don't throw away anything that  is usable in China.  It is sort of a sin, because they just came out of excruciation poverty in the last 10 years. That is why we got those boxes.  On the outside it says "Gruver" on the inside "Epiphone".  The quality is far better than most any of the other Chinese I have seen.  There are a couple of others that are taught by US and German manufactures and they are also very good.  Yamaha a Japanese brand has guitars made in China and Yamaha controls the quality.  Gretsch has many models made in China, mostly by one of the companies I got samples from.  Ibenez too does this.  Washburn has been doing it for a long time on acoustics and they went from mediocre to excellent in time.
It is getting very competitive with US, Mex made instruments that are losing ground because of improvements in China. What it comes down to is the actual quality for the dollar,  of the instruments and not the brand name or history and nostalgia.  In this economy, if you want to play music you need to be picky and not be wasteful of your money.  


We make the custom copy of the Gibson Les Paul.  It is modeled after the 1959 and it sounds pretty much the same.  The pickups are identical to Gibson from that era.  

(No longer under patent.)  I play one in my band HavenHead.  It is called the Chippewa, after our band members (Mike of HavenHead) tribe.  You can hear it on our music.  Johny Took The Wrong Road Home, Human Emotional Mental Gargbage, and almost all. On the others I play a Gruver Shanee, Delux Strat copy.  http://www.soundclick.com/havenhead
Our tunes are normally in the top ten of rock, or number one or number two in the sub genre, like "Classic Rock", "Southern Rock" etc.
We have a CD out and get a lot of people who like our music from all over the world.  

Just wanted to give you something to think about.