About custom woodwork:

There are some wicked looking guitars out there that are carved to the max with excellent artwork, by equally excellent artists, using proper tools.  Although I am strongly considering adding that kind of service to my repertoire, you will have to wait for now until I have more practice with it and the right tools.  I do have some experience with carving, but like to keep it simple until such time as I can guaranty better results, before I promise results worthy of Michael Angelo and the likes.  The tools required cost hundreds of dollars more than what you may have used with the boy scouts to make soap box derby cars and the like, as we are not talking balsa wood here, but hardwoods, and I still have to acquire such tools for more detailed work.

Reshaping Instrument body's, headstock's and transitions between segments is not a problem though, and I have had success reshaping stuff in an esthetically pleasing manor, way beyond typical factory looks, as you can see here with this neck, which had no distinguishable contour at all before I got a hold of it:

FYI:  The famous Jackson headstock design was a result of finding an easy and quick fix to a broken headstock.  As much as I like Grover, who I have worked for, I do not like the headstock design, and have told him so too, and he assured me (with a chuckle) that he too was surprised by how many people liked it, and so it became a standard in a time of need.  If you check out his more recent work, you can tell that he has much better taste than that.  Here is one of my redesigns:

As I write this, I have a 65 Fender Jaguar, that was mutilated by a DIY finisher on my workbench, which I am re-sculpting to a more pleasing shape, as who ever refinished it, did not keep anything in square nor keep flow within the lines.  So far, it is more flowing in contour than even Fender had made it to begin with, and promises to reflect its jugendstil/art deco design much better when done.

Besides shape for pure looks sake, having functional and ergonomic features is definitely desirable, especially for the touring musician, and I can help with that.  Everything from arm and belly cutaways to ergonomic neck profiles are within my grasp, and part of my expertise, although the latter is dictated by the original neck design and truss rod type, where placement is of utmost importance before considering reshaping.

I myself have been playing for years, and have experienced the effects of lack of ergonomics in instrument design.  On the other hand when it comes to building instruments from scratch, no matter how much I would like to make every instrument ultra comfortable and stress injury free, saleability plays a major factor, and so I must omit features I would like to incorporate to satisfy those who have a hard time getting used to that sort of thing, or are just stuck in the fangs of tradition.  Also most modern ergonomic features, especially neck profiles are restricted and require additional licensing at an additional price to incorporate.

In the next picture I have taken form and function way over the top, because this arm cutaway I did in the early 90's has the binding following the curve in 3 dimensions, and to this day, there is no machine to do this with well.  It took over 10 hours to get just right by hand, and is much more complicated than meets the eye.

Finally chopping an instrument any which way, will require finish work of some kind, and that too must be considered, which you can read about here.  Here is a recent headstock mod that shows good woodwork and finishing skills together: