VIG Guitars was a budget electric guitar and bass brand launched around 2007 by GEWA. At launch in 2007 the range included the following guitar models: Poison, Cobra, Spirit, Screech, Eruption and Dragster.  Poison and Cobra were also available as 4&5 string basses, All guitars were priced below €300 and all basses below €400. By 2009 the VIG brand name was replaced by VGS.

Source: VIG Guitars catalog 2007

Source: VIG guitars website (Archived 2008)

Brunhilde (Bruni) Jacob specializes in the construction of new mandolins, mandolas and classical guitars in various sizes. The designs are in-house developments, but are based on traditional designs. She also offers special models (e.g. octave guitar, various acoustic models, mandocello). She qualified as a luthier in Markneukirchen and in 1996 went to work for Ulrike Meinel making zithers and guitars. She started her own workshop in 1998. From 2000 to 2014 she taught luthiery in Klingenthal.

Les Godfrey has been building electric basses and guitars since 1995. Les studied with the luthier and musician Carl Thompson. Godfrey's Dragonetti bass design is partly inspired by the double bass. Each Dragonetti is hand carved with scrolls and an arch top. Godfrey's other designs

Source: Godfrey Guitars website (15 October 2021)

Harmsworth & Willis was an acoustic guitar brand based in Kent, UK. Their range included Gypsy Jazz style acoustic guitars. The company was founded by Mike Harmsworth and Neville Willis, and they imported small batches of hand made guitars from Asia (Phillipines?) for sale in the UK. The company ran for around 9 years from the 1990s into the 2000s.

Hsienmo is a Chinese acoustic guitar brand - established around 2001. Hsienmo instruments are aimed at the mid-to-upper end of the market and use some innovative technologies (for example the Shiyi model has an interesting bracing & soundhole arrangement; or their S50 model - inspired by the Lowden S50 design) and some have rare tonewoods.

Scavenger was established by Dominic Allan around 2020 in Dorset, UK. Dom had worked in musical instrument manufacture, repair , retail and performance for 30 years. Since 2003 he worked as an instrument technician at All Instruments, Westbury Wilts. He faced a problem common to piano dealers: what do you do with a scrap piano? His solution is to recycle the piano wood into Scavenger electric guitars and basses.

Source: Scavenger website (7 October 2021)

Wild Customs is an artisan guitar making workshop based in Creuzier-le-Vieux, France. Its run by a team of guitar fanatics with creative mindsets, they build and design great guitars but are also involved with design side projects such as watches & furniture. Wild Customs guitars are designed, built, and finished entirely by hand.

Source: Wild Custom Guitars website (1 October 2021)

Sauvage Guitars are made by the Wild Customs team in Creuzier-le-Vieux, France. Their OPM (One Piece Master) models are carved from a single slab of flamed ash. The slab is included with the guitar as a custom display stand.

Source: Sauvage Guitars website (1 October 2021)

Vik Guitars are made by Viachaslau "Vik" Kuletski in Belarus. Vik became disillusioned while studying law so he dropped out of college in 2004 and joined a luthier who taught him the basics of the job. Over the next few years he serviced and repaired guitars with the occasional custom build. Iniitially he built the classic Fender & Gibson designs - learning the alphabet of guitar making but in 2007 he came up with his first original design.It took years of hard work both in the shop and online to make his original designs a success. He now makes the Caprice S and T, Duality, Black Lotus, Saviour and Domineer models. He has worked with and created instruments for: Jeff Kollman, Adam Nolly Getgood, Tosin Abasi, Keith Merrow, Fredrik Thordendal, Alan Sacha Laskow, and Fred Brum.

Source: Vik Guitars website (30 September 2021)