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Custom 6-String Headless Electric Guitar from Local Luthier - $600 (Santa Barbara)
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My goal with this was to make an electric guitar as simply as possibly, but with very high-quality parts. The scale length is 25" and has 24 frets, which are gold colored hypoallergenic EVO frets. I'm allergic to nickel so the frets and strings are nickel-free. Very unusually, this guitar does not have a truss rod, and so the neck is one solid chunk of maple, no separate fretboard. To account for string pull, I made the neck a bit thicker, I believe it was 22mm (0.87") thick. There is still a bit more relief than fast and shreddy players would like, but that was part of the experiment I wanted to try out. I don't find it a big hindrance to playing, but it's something the buyer should be aware of.
The neck is glued into the roasted/tempered/torrefied alder body, which has one single Seymour Duncan Pegasus pickup made down the road in Santa Barbara. Again, simplicity was my goal. There is one volume knob, and one coil split switch. The output jack is the nicest one I've ever seen, made by an excellent audiophile company called Analysis Plus. It retains a firm grip on the cable, so it takes pressure to insert, but it makes excellent contact once it's in.
Another peculiarity is there are no fret markers, other than the few I occasionally draw on with a pen, haha (they rub off after a while). Again, simplicity, and I would encourage the buyer to draw on their own if they like. Also, I didn't bother sanding the body to fine grit, because that takes time and one goal here was efficiency. The neck is smooth though. There are dents and dings on the body but nothing egregious. The finish is a water based polyurethane.
Please let me know if you have any questions, I'm happy to talk! I don't often make guitars anymore, but here are some of the ones I made more than a decade ago, if you're curious: http://hamptonharmony.com/
Parts value breakdown ($783 total, not counting tax and shipping etc):
Hipshot 6 string headless fixed bridge and LowPro headpiece (made in NY) - $462
Seymour Duncan Pegasus bridge pickup (made in Santa Barbara!) - $109
Dunlop Straplok flush mount (I believe made in USA, but uncertain) - $20
Analysis Plus QiJack Mono TS output jack (made in USA) - $42
Wood (maple and torrefied alder, harvested in pacific northwest), fret wire (made in Germany), strings (made in Battle Creek, Michigan), potentiometer, coil switch, etc (unsure where made) - $150 (estimated)