Guitars

Roger Giffin Guitars

Roger Giffins' story.

"I started Giffin Guitars in England, where it existed in various forms from the late 60's up until the mid 80's. During those years I was fortunate enough to hook up with a lot of very good musicians. This gave me the opportunity and encouragement to design and build guitars that became widely accepted in England at that time.

Regular customers included Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and John Entwhistle (The Who), Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Andy Summers (The Police) David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), and many more. Hundreds of quality, reasonably priced guitars were made at "Giffin Guitars."

So, in 1988 I moved to California. Once in L.A. and , employed by Gibson, I started building Gibson Custom instruments and fronting the Gibson West Coast repair shop. During this time, I built many different Gibson custom guitars, while the "Giffin" side of things was "on a slow burner."

The client list during this time included names like Eddie Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jimmy Page and Malcolm Young, among many others. I ran the Gibson custom shop up until Dec. '93 together with my co-worker and good friend Gene Baker. At that point it was decided that the whole Gibson operation was to be moved to Nashville".

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Roger Giffin has been building guitars f or the elite guitarists in the music industry for over 40 years. He was commisioned to built exact replicas of both Eric Clapton's "Blackie" and Jimmy Page's Sunburst Gibson Les Paul.

His guitars have to be played to be appreciated. They are of the very highest build quality and playability for the most discerning customer. We are proud to represent Roger Giffin Guitars in Australia and have various models of Roger's guitars available either for sale or appraisal. Please call us for current availability and pricing.

R J Aylward Guitars

Rob Aylward is among the top echelon of acoustic instrument builders creating fine handcrafted instruments to order.

Rob Aylward studied Musical Instrument Technology for four years at the London College of Furniture (now Guildhall University) under the tuition of Herbert Schartz and the widely acclaimed classical guitar maker Michael Gee.

R J Aylward guitars was started in 1990 and has steadily built a reputation for high quality handcrafted instruments built to his clients specifications. In 1997 Guitarist magazine reviewed an OM sized guitar saying “ A feast for the eyes and the ears”, ” A call to rob could be the end of the search for the perfect and perfectly affordable guitar.

Known mostly for his high end Selmer style gypsy guitars, Rob Aylward also builds a full range of acoustic, electric and other instruments such as mandolins and banjos.His work with the Selmer style guitars and can count Hank Marvin, Robin and Kevin Nolan, John Wheatcroft, Andy Mackenzie and Gary Potter and amongst the well-known musicians he has built instruments for.

Instruments are constructed using hand selected top grade tone woods and the bracing materials are hand split to ensure that the timber has optimum grain orientation.

Musical City and R J Aylward Guitars now offer a range of custom made electric guitars, made to order in the style of the great 1950's and 1960's semi-hollow designs.

Please call us for availability and pricing.