Emerald guitars is an Irish brand producing cabon fibre body acoustics and innovative custom designs. Run by Alistair Hay.

DIY home-made or highly customized one off bass guitars

Although Leo Fender was the first to mass produce the electric bass guitar in the 1950s, Seattle musician Paul Tutmarc could be considered its true inventor.

Defil is a Polish musical instruments manufacturer founded in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was in existence until 2007 when stricter emissions regulations forced the closure of its factory.

Wez Venables is a custom guitar builder from Burton-On-Trent in the UK. Each of his guitars is individually designed and built.
He is happy making vintage retro designs as well as new or experimental designs, including fanned fret instruments.

Michael Egger's VideoBass is an instrument that plays moving images instead of sound. With your left hand you chose a video clip on the strings and you trigger it in rhythm with your right hand. The four strings can play up to four different clips at the same time.

Birdsong guitars was established in 2001 by luthiers Scott Beckwith and Jamie Hornbuckle. They specialize in short scale professional quality basses.

Special active version of the Atlansia Oxford bass. It has an incredible 16 single string pickups, four per string. These are controlled by a 16 button keypad.

Atlansia Oxford HBX2 bass, with the unusual Oxford headstock support bars. Different pickup options from the other Oxford basses (two humbuckers perhaps?) The attached rest could be a knee or arm rest, but is probably an arm rest. Has the Atlansia tuners at the bridge end.

Pictures from Walfy Walftone

The body is ash or soft maple. The bolt-on neck is Canadian hard rock maple, with an ebony fingerboard and a 34 inch scale length. Machine heads, pickups (ARSX4) and tailpiece are all made by Altlansia and finished in gold. Controls are one volume and one tone, I believe there are also individual switches for the four single string pickups. Finish is polyurethane.

A collection of twelve rare early British-made electric guitars has been found in a Cheltenham basement of a house. The Supersound guitars were made by during a short partnership between Jim Burns and Alan Wootton from 1958 and 1959.

The collection includes both single and double cutaway solid body electric guitars and basses with Gibson influenced necks and headstock shapes.

The Simon Lee Guitars Cyclotron series, launched around 2008, are hand made, sustainable guitars and basses, using environmentally sound processes and materials where possible.  They employ a three layer plastic-wood-plastic body construction using aesthetically recycled plastics.

Guitar maker Simon Lee launched the cyclotron range of guitars in 2008. The cycltons have an innovative sandwich body contstruction. The front and back are aesthetic recycled plastic sheets, bolted together with an inner maple core.

The Westone brand began with the Japanese Matsumoku instrument manufacturers. Matsumoku started out in 1951 as a sewing machine maker but moved into electric guitar building in the 1960s. By the 1980s Matsumoku had gained a reputation as an important exporter of electric guitars, producing instruments for other brands such as Aria, Epiphone, Vantage and Vox.

The Franklin Bass VI is a six string electric bass with a single cutaway semi-hollow body. It has Lindert's Escape Velocity(TM) neck, ergonomically designed to be half rounded and half vee shaped. It is has 24 frets, 30 inch scale and utilizes a 21/16 bridge and 121/32 nut width. The Franklin( Bass VI is tuned one octave below a guitar and uses 85 to 21 gauge strings.