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Home About Guitars Contact scroll down Each Söderlund Guitar is a fresh adventure in the pursuit of beauty, tone and playability. No complete design is built more than once, making each Söderlund guitar unique and imminently collectible. Choose from undiscovered and rare African tonewoods or established timbers that have earned their instrument status over centuries of luthery. Every guitar, unique In the guitar world, the wheel has largely been invented. But even the most time-tested wheels can be refined.
Söderlund Guitars are hand-made, one-off acoustic and electric instruments built by myself, using unusual and toneful woods from Africa and around the world. Many of my instruments are built in close consultation with my clients, allowing you to specify wood choices, scale length, hardware and details that are typically not customisable on factory-built instruments.
Each Söderlund Guitar is designed for a specific musical purpose. Spec guitars are built to fill a gap that I imagine has not been filled, either in ergonomics, aesthetics or tone. These instruments are all one-off combinations of woods, components and playability dimensions. Custom instruments come in whatever fancy you can dream up. Custom instruments are co-designed with the buyer to ensure a perfectly fit-for-purpose instrument. To begin a custom build, get in touch on my contact page and we can begin c