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A maker's voice in every guitar

Andy with part-built guitar

I build guitars by hand

I’ve spent a lifetime shaping wood and sound. Now, in my small workshop in the Yarra Valley in Victoria, I build only the guitars I want to make—no commissions, no rush—just honest instruments crafted with care. Every guitar you see here was made by me, start to finish.

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Close-up of Australian penny in guitar headstock

A SMALL PIECE OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

What’s with the penny?

Every guitar I make carries an old Australian penny set into the headstock. It’s my little stamp of where the guitar came from, but there’s more to it than that.

The coin has already lived a life before it ever reaches my workshop. By setting it into a new instrument, I get to give that small piece of Australian history another life — and another story.

I don't have customers, I have guitar-loving mates!

"I’m no maestro but something happens when I pick one up. Andy’s insane ability to turn dead wood into something thats so sweetly subtle and delicate to raucous and loud is testament of his gift of instrument creativity."
David Fife, Andy Allen Custom Guitars player testimonial
David Fife
Player
"...Andy Allen, who built all my guitars..."
“I knew Andy was the only person I could trust with this precious timber. What he created was more than I could have imagined—a beautiful, extraordinary-sounding guitar and a genuine family heirloom.”

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