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Custom 77

Custom 77 was established in 2007 in Lyon, France as an electric guitar brand, by Jérôme & JB. From the very start they decided to sell direct to customers, bypassing importers and resellers. Their first original model, the Lust For Life, was released in 2008. Followed in 2010 by the The Watcher, the T-Sonic and The Roxy. In 2011, JB and Jérôme launched their second brand: Third Eye Guitars (3YE). This was a more metal oriented brand that focuses on active guitars, baritone scale and 7 strings.

Source: Custom 77 website (25 April 2022)

Vuorensaku

Vuorensaku Guitars is a Finnish electric guitar brand established by luthier Saku Vuori in 2012. Vuori graduated from Arts & Crafts school in 2008 and went on to work with other luthiers for the first few years. He opened his own workshop in 2012 in Jyväskylä, to repair stringed instruments and make his own guitar & bass models and custom pickups. In 2019 he passed his masters exam and became the youngest Master Luthier in Finland, at the age of 35.

He launched the T-Family collection of instruments in 2014 loosely based on a combination of classic designs like the Fender Jazzmaster, Teles and Mosrites. His inspiration for reliced and aged style guitars is drawn from old Finnish houses and furniture from 1950’s. He also makes each pickup himself and has been working on some new concepts including a low-output pickup called “El Kamiina” using old Finnish wires from the 1970’s.

Mike Sabre

Mike Sabre was born in 1954 in Paris, his American father moved them to the USA, were he grew up. He returned to France and began an apprenticeship in cabinet making aged 19, first with a master cabinet maker and then later at the école Boule in Paris. He moved into luthiery, learning violin and then guitar building in various workshops. Mike Sabre has been making guitars for John McLaughlin since 1993 and has also made instruments for Dominique Di Piazza, U. Srinivas, Eric Sempe, François Arnaud and Yannick Robert.

Source: Mike Sabre website (21 April 2022)

Carillion

Carillion electric, acoustic and bass guitars are hand made in Dorking, Surrey, UK by Chris Delia. Delia studied for 3 years on the musical instrument making course at South Thames College (Merton). On graduation he established Carillion as a guitar making business with a, fully equipped workshop, a large stock of timber to select from and a continually growing client list.  The mainstay of Carillion's business is their line of solid-body electric guitars, all with original designs. Carillion also make acoustic and bass guitars.

Source: Carillion Guitars website (19 April 2022)

Abernethy

Abernethy Guitars are made in Guadalupe, California by Jason Abernethy. He start making guitars in 1999 - first as a guitar tech in a local store and then with Gene Baker - where he made high end electric guitars. Over the following years he made guitars for Baker, Ernie Ball, National Resophonic, Fine Tuned Instruments and Premier Builders Guild. Aberrnethy set up his own company in 2013 and he specializes in high end offset electric guitars (like the Sonic Empress model) with many pickup, hardware and finish options.

Source: Abernethy Guitars website (19 April 2022)

Martper

Martper Guitars make and customize electric guitars and basses. It was founded by Israel Peral in Seville Spain. Martper make unique instruments by taking guitars originally made by Fender, Gibson, Jackson, Cort, Dean, Epiphone, LTD, ESP, Squier, Tokai, etc and then modifying the body style, inserting vintage parts, tuners and accessories. Martper designs include steam-punk guitars, a Game of Thrones themed guitar, a Jack Daniels whiskey barrel guitar and a Back-to-the-Future model complete with Flux Capacitor.

Source: Martper Guitars website (17 April 2022)

Dunable

Dunable Guitars was founded by Sacha Dunable, the guitarist and singer of prog-metal band Intronaut. Dunable has been making guitars since 2011: he started out in his garage and by 2014 he was able to go full time as a guitar builder. Dunable USA Custom Shop instruments and pickups are still built in Southern California by a small team of 6-7 people. There are also mass produced Dunable instruments like the DE series introduced in 2020 which is made in South Korea. They also make effects pedals and previously made amp heads.

Source: Dunable Guitars website (17 March 2022)

Chord

Chord is a brand name of UK consumer electronics & musical instrument distributor AVSL Group. Launched in 2010, the Chord music brand covers everything from guitars and percussion to amplifiers and stands, with a multitude of accessories such as cases and covers, tuners, pick-ups and metronomes.

Source: Chord website (14 March 2022)

Biaxe

The Biaxe guitar was invented around 1976 by Charles Churchman Soupios as dual-necked instrument for touch-style playing. You were meant to play each neck with a different hand - one being the bass neck and the other the treble. The design was patented in 1981 and the company made them from around 1978 to 1985. Charles Soupios returned in the 1990s with a detachable neck Biaxe invention - whereby an additional neck could be fitted to a standard guitar making it into a Biaxe.

Source: Biaxe patent #US4240319A granted 23 December 1981

Source: Detachable neck Biaxe patent #US5315910A granted 31 May 1994

Source: Biaxe video - Chuck Soupios 1985

Godman

Godman is a budget electric, acoustic and bass guitar brand. Also Godman banjos, mandolins and ukuleles. The brand has been around since the mid 2000s, possibly earlier.

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