Roger Cowan founded Dog Tired Guitars in Oklahoma as a guitar company which specializes in creating custom telecaster style guitars. With their Heritage Series, they honor Oklahoma history by creating guitars using wood from old structures around the state. Each guitar comes with a certificate of authenticity that details the history of the structure from which the wood was harvested. Their Heirloom Series is meant to help preserve pieces of family history by turning them into something more useable and more easily displayed. For example they can use wood from an old family homestead that's falling in, or great grandpa's ancient crib that's falling to pieces in the attic and use it to make a guitar.