AXL guitars is a brand of guitars, amplifiers and effects made in China distributed in the USA by Music Link. In 2011 AXL introduced the USA Series of instruments which are assembled from imported parts in the AXL USA workshop in Hayward, CA and include the 1216 Artist and Classic models (the Artist with Seymour Duncan Seth Lover pickups), the SRO Artist and Classic models (the Artist with custom-wound Lindy Fralin single coil pickups) and the AXL USA Bulldog, with a single Lindy Fralin P-90.