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.

Oni was started in 2005 by Daniel Memory, who had around ten years experience of repair work at that point. The first Oni instruments were extended range 7 and 8 string electric guitars. In 2012 the e-scale Oni concept was born and previous options were dropped due to the build complexity of this design.As of 2018 this model is now known as Essi and is available in 6, 7 and 8 string versions. The Brute model was introduced in 2017, with a more straightforward design than the Essi. Daniel also occasional builds "Specials" which are guitar building challenges, driven by an initial idea and improvised from there.

Source: Oni website (15 October 2018

The PHRED brand began in 2011 when founder Freddy Rose collaborated with an international guitar maker on the design for the TA-01 prototype.  PHRED instruments are made overseas to designs inspired by the guitars of Phish, The Grateful Dead and String Cheese Incident.

source: PHRED website (12 Octoboer 2018)

Malcolm Weaver studied classical guitar making at Newark and Sherwood College in Nottinghamshire (UK), under the tutelage of Roy Courtnall Summerfield and Tony Johnson, where he qualified with distinction. During this time, he developed a particular interest in small bodied steel-string guitars, which inspired him to explore different possibilities of sound by experimenting with woods, techniques, bracing methods etc. He started making parlour guitars in 2001 and used the Olivewood Guitars brand. His workshop was in Newark, Nottinghamshire. The design of the Olivewood parlour guitar was inspired by the Martin 0045, but was complimented by subtle design features and a distinctive Spanish Olivewood rosette. Although acoustic guitars were his main focus, Malcolm Weaver also produced custom electric guitars and basses. Weaver closed down Olivewood Guitars in 2011.

The Jacobacci brand was founded in the Parisien district of Menilmontant during 1920s by Vincent Jacobacci. Jacobacci was an Italian immigrant from Catania, who began by making banjos and  guitars. Vincent's son Roger Jacobacci, decided in the early fifties to start making  electric guitars, initially by adding pickups to the existing Jacobacci acoustic guitars.

Jacobacci built guitars for the Major Conn Paris store following an agreement in 1956, and these guitars have the brand name Major. Major models included the Royal, the Soloist and the Super Deluxe. Other models included the semi-hollow bodied Texas and the solid bodied Ohio. Some famous French rock and roll bands (like Johnny Hallyday, the Pirates and the Vatours) played the Texas and Ohio models, increasing the desirability of Jacobacci guitars with the French public.

Ron and Susan Wickersham founded Alembic in 1969 as a consulting firm that worked with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash & Young to improve the quality of their live sound and live recordings. After improving the technical aspects of the PA systems and live recording techniques, Alembic turned their attention to the electronics used in the guitars and basses the musicians were playing  to further improve the live sound. Touring bands were experiencing was too much electrical interference and unreliability with their instruments. Ron Wickersham designed low impedance pickups to increase the bandwidth. This also made the pickups low output and so he had to design an active on-board preamp to boost the signal. These were the first guitars with active electronics.