Life Guitars - Making Ethical Repurposed Guitars

Aim

Assembling the first 100 of our beautiful repurposed guitars, offering owners an ethical route to owning an awesome and affordable guitar!

Love guitars? Love Planet Earth? Love supporting local/independent businesses? Then this is the Crowdfunder for youuuuuu !!

Our exciting history

Established in July 2020 amidst the start of a global pandemic, award-winning Life Guitars Co burst onto the UK independent retail scene with a vision to breathe new life into old and used guitars, amps and effects pedals. 

Since then, we have quickly established ourselves as a popular and trusted guitar shop and have consistently grown, despite the bleak economic backdrop which we’ve operated in.

With a strong ethical and environmental backbone, our small but beautifully formed guitar store in Devon repairs, restores and upcycles second-hand guitars, amps and pedals. We do everything within our power to use or save every part of every piece of gear that comes into our shop, to reduce wastage and decrease the environmental impact of used equipment being discarded by their previous owners.

And the end result? A store which has become a treasure-trove full of beautiful, high-quality used guitars, amps and pedals which are as close to new as physically possible (sometimes even better than new in the case of our guitars, given that wood ages and improves over time).

Despite the many challenges that have come with starting a business in pandemic conditions, we have built a loyal community of customers and creatives at Life Guitars Co. The business has continued to grow and thrive since day one, and we have expanded our premises and team to keep up with this growth.

It hasn’t all been plain sailing though! As different lockdowns have come and gone, we have had to be agile and responsive to the various trading scenarios we have found ourselves in. Apparently, fortune favours the brave and we are testing that theory to the max!

Our exciting future

However, this is just the start and we are now ready for our next ‘gear-change moment’ as we move forward into our exciting future.

So, we are inviting you to join our community by supporting the next chapter of our story – the launch of our first ever range of LG Repurposed Guitars.

Staying true to our ethics and vision, we are excited to announce that we are starting to assemble re-purposed guitars, made out of the highest quality parts from used donor guitars.

These are painstakingly assembled, painted, tested, setup and quality-assured, resulting in what looks and feels like a brand-new guitar, but without costing the earth (both literally and metaphorically!). 

No factories, assembly lines or added pollution in sight - just great guitars, assembled with love by a team of dedicated and passionate guitar lovers based in the heart of Devon, UK.

Our initial goal is to build our first 50 of these repurposed guitars, with a stretch target to assemble an additional 50 if possible. We need your support to buy some machinery/tools, invest in parts and also to pay for the additional man hours required to make this dream happen.

Anyway... we could talk about this until the proverbial (or actual) cows come home. 

Thanks so much for reading this far. There's only one thing left to do....

Pledge now. *

*Pretty please.

This project successfully funded on 14th March 2023