The Zoybar is a collaborative project launched in 2008 by industrial designer Ziv Bar Ilan. The aim to create a comfortable and and playable instrument that was easy to assemble but efficient to manufacture in small numbers.

Gigliotti guitars have a brass or aluminium plate top insert, finished in a custom pattern. this lets the guitar top resonate like an acoustic. This metal top is cut with a water-jet then set into a body with wooden back and sides (mahogany or swamp ash). The guitars are finished by Graphite Guitars using polyester base coat with polyurethane color and top coats.

Ray Matter  founded the AlumiSonic guitar company in 2008, combining his background in manufacturing engineering and custom luthierie. AlumiSonic use 6061-T6 aluminium (aluminum) for their guitars. Their instruments have hollow bodies, which helps with lower tones. They claim that, with the correct amount of overdrive, their aluminium guitars can sustain a note infinitely.

The Alumitar was created by Paul Rubenstein. Imagine a guitar neck with no back, the curve of the fretboard going all the way around, now take away the frets and you have the Alumitar. It looks like it is made from an aluminium tube, it has 10 strings evenly spaced around the outside of the tube.

Manufacture of the SHARK GUITAR began in the 1990s and ended around 2003. The body was single cutaway with ergonomic contours, major changes were made to the model in 2003, making it slightly more conventional.

The Abel Axe was an aluminium bodied electric guitar. The body of the Abel Axe was CNC machined from a solid slab of aircraft grade aluminium.
The Abel Axe had two Kent Armstrong pickups, Sperzel locking tuners, a Kahler tremolo or Gotoh fixed bridge, a bolt-on maple neck with 22 fret rosewood fingerboard (25.5 inch scale).