Guitar Cremation Urns: Handmade, Artistic Urns for Musicians’ Ashes

Guitar Cremation Urns — One-of-a-Kind Handmade Memorial Sculptures

We’re thrilled to introduce GuitarUrns.com, our new online home dedicated entirely to our handcrafted guitar-inspired cremation urns.

For families who want a memorial as personal as the music their loved one played, each piece is modeled after their actual guitar. Using photos and model details, we sculpt a custom wall-hanging memorial urn that beautifully reflects the instrument they cherished.

Every urn begins with clay in our Texas studio, where we handcraft and finish each piece with care and artistry. These one-of-a-kind urns for ashes honor the soul of a musician in a way that feels natural and uplifting—urns that don’t look like urns, but rather, timeless tributes to a life lived through music.

Each design can be personalized with engraved names, dates, handwritten signatures, song lyrics, or meaningful epitaphs. The result is an artistic urn for ashes that carries deep emotional resonance and visual beauty—an heirloom that tells their story in form and detail.

Visit GuitarUrns.com to explore this special collection and learn how we can create a custom urn sculpture modeled after your loved one’s beloved instrument.

CONTACT US for a custom quote.  

Power of Personalization: Custom Guitar Urns That Don’t Look Like Urns

 

We craft unique cremation urns modeled after your loved one’s instrument—custom, personal, and beautiful. Each handmade memorial urn starts with clay, gets sculpted in our Texas studio, fired to ceramic, and finished with the detail and care of true artistry.

Here are some recent custom guitar urns we’ve brought to life: a green striped PRS electric, a gold-top Gibson Les Paul, a cream Fender Stratocaster, and a white Bret Michaels Z Dean (with Bret’s signature). Each design is more than homage—it’s a reflection of personality, passion, and life.

Why settle for ordinary when you can have an urn that’s an artistic urn for ashes, something distinct and meaningful? Our guitars don’t just resemble the instrument—they feel like it, through shape, color, and finish.

Planning your custom urn is easy: you supply photos or model details, choose personal engravings (name, dates, signature, lyrics, epitaph), and we sculpt and finish it hand-by-hand. You end with a one-of-a-kind urn that doesn’t look like an urn—and honors your loved one in a deeply personal way.

Explore more in our gallery of one-of-a-kind guitar designs, or contact us to begin designing your own custom urn sculpture today. Let’s create something truly yours.

Power of Personalization: The love story of "Chip" Stickers Guitar

 

"I met Jon in the summer of 2003.  The first day I met him he had Chip with him.  In fact every time I hung out with him in the beginning of our relationship Chip was with him.  Jon went to another place every single time he played.  Music was his Heaven on earth.  As like turned into love I began to leave my mark on Chip in the form of stickers.  When I truly knew I loved Jon I started placing stickers on Chip while Jon played.  The first was the tie-dyed heart.  I can still remember the look on Jon's face.  It was breathtaking.  I knew he was in love too.  Days turned to months.  About 5 years into our relationship it was time to retire Chip.  He had gotten old and the sound was just not the same anymore.  Jon got a new guitar.  Every time we looked at Chip we referred to him as "our love story".  We could clearly remember the nights we spent together getting to know each other and falling deeper and deeper in love.  8 years later we were married.  We always thought of Chip and had intended on having him framed and displayed on the wall as a testimony of our love for each other.  When Jon tragically passed away at the age of 35, I wanted him to go off with music.  He had 4 guitars in our home.  2 were guitars he played, 1 was our guestbook at our wedding and the other was "our love story".  Our son did not want to part with the guitars that daddy played so...I sent Jon with Chip.  I took lots of pictures of Chip.  I was devastated.  I then found Awesome Urns.  They recreated Chip as an urn for my husband's remains.  I truly can think of no better resting place for Jon than inside our love story.  The urn is perfect.  It is exquisite and precisely what I was looking for.  I can never thank you enough for the sense of solace you have given me during this time of grief."

 

Power of Personalization: Cigar Box Guitar

 

    

    "Rusty Hubcap" Michael crafted Cigar Box Guitars.  His wife sent us a photo of one of his favorite pieces.  Based off the photo, we recreated this piece in his memory.  The unique soundplate was a challenging and cool element that made his memorial urn truly one-of-a-kind.

Power of Personalization: Gibson Dove Custom Guitar Urn

 

Custom, hand built ceramic guitar cremation urn.  In memory of a local Texas musician who loved his Gibson Dove acoustic guitar.  We had the honor of hand-delivering it to his widow outside of Austin.

Power of Pesonalization: A Pair of Hofner Basses

We were contacted prior to Larry's passing. He was a bass player and his most prized possession was his Hofner electric bass. The instrument of choice for Paul McCartney.

His wife shared with us that the night of his passing, a family member stepped outside and found the sky to be a shade of purple...his favorite color. The sky stayed that color for a half hour and comforted his family in that moment.

His wife and son both got tattoos with three flying purple birds, wrapped in an infinity with the words, "Let it be." Three purple birds, a "Let it be" song lyric, and his signature were all engraved on his two unique memorial pieces....one electric bass urn for his wife and one for his son.

We were touched by the sweet story his wife shared, and embraced the challenge of creating these two detailed pieces inspired by his beautiful Hofner bass. We're always honored to create special tributes, like these, to remember loved ones uniquely. Best wishes and prayers for their healing and comfort in the days ahead.

Power of Personalisation: Custom Guitar for Lee Villaire

We were contacted by Roger shortly after the unexpected passing of Lee.  Separately and together, they wrote music and lyrics. He was looking for a special memorial that represented her lifelong love of music and singing.

To give us a connection to who Lee was, he emailed us some photos of her and some of their most recent songs.

Video of Lee and Roger performing "Worth the Wait" together

Roger decided he would like a guitar urn modeled after the guitar she had played the last 10 years... her curvy Yamaha Compass cut-away. 

Extra special and sentimental touches were added... a raised microphone adornment, engravings of song lyrics they wrote, and a love note in her handwriting. One song he sent with us was "Walk You Through", a song about losing a loved one.  We shared with him this moment of engraving her handwritten inscription...

Prior to completing Lee's guitar, we received the most thoughtful package from Roger that included 5 CDs of their music <3  We deeply appreciated his sweet words and the kind gesture given to us, even in his time of grief.

His note enclosed read:

Hello Jamaica & Rob,

Please find a small token of appreciation from Lee and I for the kindness, the personal touch and the love you have provided. Such a rare commodity these days. Service.

In the box are 3 early recordings of Lee, including her Canadian release. Also included are my only recordings with Lee helping, and Lee's last recording (solo that is), "Victory Dance".

Hope you enjoy,
Roger (& Lee)

We LOVED getting a chance to listen to a collection of Lee's music dating back nearly 20 years.  As well as, hearing Roger sing- we love his folky, soft-rock style.

We were honored to create this piece in her memory, finding connection through her music, and offering Roger some comfort with a tribute handmade with love.