Ron Kirn Signature Guitars

08/20/2026

Happy Birthday Ron Kirn! 🥳

07/18/2026

The 2026 Guitar Sale Is Here

The wait is over! The 2026 Ron Kirn Guitar Sale is officially underway, with 17 handcrafted guitars ready to ship immediately. Every guitar is built one at a time with the attention to detail, playability, and craftsmanship Ron Kirn is known for. No production line. No shortcuts. Just exceptional instruments built to be played for a lifetime.

Only 17 are available, and when they're gone, they're gone. Take a look through this year's collection and see which one speaks to you.

10/04/2023

New guitars are in stock and ready to ship! Get your orders in now for the holiday season.

Introducing The Pro Line, built with all the top quality standards of an RK guitar, intended for the professional that has time for making music and little for nursing an instrument.

Also, Barnbusters are back!

Introducing a new line, intended for the professional that has time for making music and little for nursing an instrument.

08/20/2023

Happy birthday to the one and only, Ron Kirn!

09/27/2022

For the immediate future, I cannot accept any new orders. The back log of existing work, compounded by my “rat chewed” left thumb just makes it impractical to add fuel to the growing fire of stuff that has to be completed. Further, I won’t be able to take in any repairs.

Hopefully everything will be back up to speed by the new year.

Now, allow me to share why something as mundane as a clipped thumb can be such a problem. Anything requiring both hands, such as polishing, painting, shaping, all the “heavy lifting”, places a considerable strain in the ligaments. And that hurts. It also puts considerable tension on a healing thumb. I lost the whole tip of my left thumb, the entire portion that used to hold my thumbnail. My Doc says I’m an idiot to do anything. I told him my detractors think I’m an idiot despite anything I do, and I have a reputation to uphold.

What I am doing is the light duty stuff, making pickups, pickguards, wiring pickguards, etc., fret-leveling new necks waiting for their body’s to “catch up, standing there staring at my bandaged thumb and cussin’ a blue streak. It all has to be done, so at least things are progressing. I don’t stop, I never do.

Thanks for your many kind thoughts, and rest assured I didn’t do this on purpose.

Ron

09/19/2022

Notice: Delay in production

Any woodworker will tell you, pay attention when you’re using power tools. If you don’t, you may find yourself in the ER. Also, if you work with power tools long enough, eventually you’re going to find yourself in the ER. Long story short, there will be a delay in getting guitars finished for the next few weeks or so, but I still have (most of) all my fingers. I have a follow up appointment next week.

03/06/2022

PLEASE READ, NOTE FROM RON:

Guys, please.. I understand, COVID is on the wane, and everyone is resuming a normal life. However, that does not mean the supply chain backlog, and the resulting chaos in the production of guitars has diminished.

I know ya all want your guitar last week… and ya want to know when… but, constantly asking “I don’t wanna be a nudge, but how’s it going, and can I get a photo”, really slows things down.

While you’re only “dealing” with your one guitar, or 3 in the case of one guy, I have almost 50 at some stage of production. While I’m looking for “your stuff”, I’m not building guitars. Not building anything is a great way to slow things down.

When you ask, I must first determine what you have ordered, then in what stage it is, then go rumble through the others that are at a similar stage, then clean it up and photograph it… with the necks it’s even more tedious… a couple of “asks” can eat up a morning tracking down everything.

So, please, unless your guitar is a life or death situation, wait until I notify you. I will, just not every few days. And please remember, I’m one guy. I do the receiving, shipping, making pickups, shaping, sanding, binding, routing, fretting, leveling, painting, sanding, polishing, siting here on the phone trying to help some decide on Lollars, or Fralins, or whatever… and whatever else I’m forgetting, all while having a normal life with the “normal” interruptions that can develop.

And NO, I’m not going to move your guitar ahead of others because of whatever… “you” wouldn’t appreciate it if you were the guy getting skipped over would ya.. The only time something jumps ahead is if it’s ready for assembly and everything is in house.

Thanks,
Ron

12/04/2021

All new Ready To Ship guitars have been listed. These are one of a kind finished guitars and no customization is available.

The following guitars are custom orders, built to your specifications.Please note, the photos below serve only an example of prior customs and are not available to purchase, as they have long been sold.

01/24/2021

Swamp Ash.. .

For the foreseeable future Swamp Ash will command premium pricing...

there has been an infestation of insects that have been killing the trees... those that remain yield lumber that is riddled with bug burrows...

If you want "light" I would encourage you to consider Paulownia.. It looks very much like Ash..

Just a thought..

12/30/2020

Hey You Guys...

Happy New Year to ya all.. my new year's resolution is to be absolutely committed to thinking about getting a Blog going.... maybe... 🤪

Rock on. . . . all of ya....