who are we?
i'm will, based in the uk. i got into aluminium guitars because i was chasing a sound. you hear it in bands like shellac, melvins & jesus lizard - that sharp attack, the way notes hang and ring out forever. once i clocked what was going on, i started looking into what they were playing. turned out, a lot of it came down to those aluminium necks
the thing is, those guitars are hard to get hold of - and for good reason. most are made by independent builders, by hand, with a lot of care. they're not overpriced, just out of reach for a lot of players, me included
so i started trying to build them myself. i taught myself basic cad, went through loads of trial and error, and eventually got somewhere. after a year or so making a handful of prototypes, i met ronny, an experienced luthier originally from kunming, china. together, we decided to turn it into something more solid
ronny leads the manufacturing operation in shenzhen, where he's built a team of local luthiers to help with production. he moved from kunming to be closer to our cnc manufacturing partners and give klang room to grow. shenzhen is one of china's major technology and manufacturing centres, making it a natural home for what we're building
we operate from two separate workshops: one dedicated to woodworking and another for assembly. this keeps the dusty woodworking processes away from final assembly, while giving each stage the space it needs. ronny and his team handle everything from finishing and setup to pickups, inlays and custom scratch plates, all with the care you'd expect from experienced guitar builders
our aluminium components are produced by a nearby precision engineering facility, working to tolerances of ±0.002mm. our necks are cut from a single billet of aluminium. and when i say single piece - i mean the neck is the bridge. there's no neck plate or bolt-on join - it's one solid chunk, from headstock to string-through holes
together, we're developing a different approach to aluminium guitars - combining independent guitar-making experience with modern precision manufacturing, while making something that was once out of reach for a lot of players