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Malone Guitars

Malone Guitars is a boutique guitar maker and repair workshop, based in Billericay, Essex, UK. Owned and operated by luthier Ian Malone, Malone Guitars hand-build a small number of high quality electric and acoustic guitars every year. The majority of their guitars are built by commission to customer specification, with occasional unique builds sold direct through the Malone Guitars web shop.

Portland Guitar

Portland Guitar specializes in fine handmade acoustic and acoustic electric guitars. It is a father-son operation comprised of Jay and Max Dickinson. Jay makes the guitars while Max runs operations. Jay is a lifelong mechanical engineer and wood worker who has been making guitars full time since 2005. Portland Guitar are focused on bringing playability, musicality and longevity to thier instruments. Their guitars feature innovations and inventions such as a split saddle nut is used to improve intonation and an easily adjustable cantilever neck which allows for the action to be changed. Unique art is used inside and for the purfling. Check out what they have to offer. 

Source: Portland Guitar website (18 June 2020)

GV guitars

Get (Norbert Szabó) and Vamp (Imrich Kamocsai), are the founders of GV guitars.
In 2016 Ivan Imhof (from Budapest) joined to the team to collaborate in design and some woodworking.

Main activity is to build high quality handmade custom guitars and basses, integrating traditional craftsmanship and state-of-the art technologies with style that we call "vintage modern". The model lines include several unique designs and others made by custom order. All custom instruments are designed and built by the suggestions and feedback of the customer.

Innovative approach, meticulous attention to details, using the finest quality parts and material, unmatched flexibility and understanding musicians needs are GV's greatest strengths.

SX Floyd

Ormsby Guitars - Standard Series SX FLOYD Model

The SX Standard Series is the 'go to' rock and roll weapon. Sleek, and perfectly balanced, it caters for the player with a more modern taste. As standard, the body is constructed using US Alder, and bolt on a Rock Maple neck with an Indian Rosewood fretboard. Necks feature a glossed Ebony headstock veneer, with a propietory silky smooth 'Gunstock' Oiled Finish.

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SX

Ormsby Guitars - Standard Series SX Model

The SX Standard Series is the 'go to' rock and roll weapon. Sleek, and perfectly balanced, it caters for the player with a more modern taste. As standard, the body is constructed using US Alder, and bolt on a Rock Maple neck with an Indian Rosewood fretboard. Necks feature a glossed Ebony headstock veneer, with a propietory silky smooth 'Gunstock' Oiled Finish.

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Ormsby Guitars Standard Series

The unique designs and ideas you see in the CustomShop models have inspired many guitarists to want one of their own. Custom made instruments are the heart and soul of what Ormsby Guitars do. But, to order a custom made instrument, you have to have a good idea what you want, a dream, and be very very patient while it is built. Some people just can't do that, or simply don't need the fancy inlays, the stress of choosing woods and pickups, etc etc. Some just want a great guitar, right here, right now.

Enter the Standard Series.

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Ormsby Guitars CustomShop

The CustomShop options offered by Ormsby Guitars are virtually limitless. Your dream, can at last become a reality! These instruments are designed starting with a blank piece of paper, and your input. Optic fibre lighting and inlays? Sure. Stones, shells, metals, synthetics, and timber for inlays? Absolutely! Nothing is out of reach... no specification too difficult to build. Be inspired!

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Ormsby

Multi award winning luthier, Perry Ormsby, has been manufacturing his custom hand-made instruments in Perth since 2003. Located in Beaconsfield, just south of sunny Fremantle, Ormsby Guitars is a local success story, striving forward despite the global downturn. All instruments are custom made from a variety of exotic and Australian timbers, their own hand wound pickups, and top shelf hardware.

Armor Guitar Company

Each instrument that bears the name Armor Guitar Company is individually hand crafted by luthier James Peters, a 35-year veteran of the musical stage along with 25 years experience in woodworking and instrument repair. With this experience, as a musician and a luthier, he aims to make acoustic guitars with a resonant tone and are a true pleasure to play.

Focusing on only the best woods and materials, each guitar is a work of art with months of labor involved. James will gives each new owner of a custom Armor Guitar, a journal of the creation of their custom guitar as well as an online journal page so that they can read about the progress of your instrument along the way! The wait for a custom guitar is only 3 months at the present time.

You can also buy the guitars at their online shop , prices start at around $1500.

 

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