Giffin 2002 Handmade Custom Guitar w/Gigbag

While not widely known, Giffin Guitars have been played by some of the lendary guitarists of Rock. This is a 2002 custom guitar that he made while still in LA. It has 2 Seymour Duncan pickups. Besides being in great condition, it sounds great!. It includes a gigbag.

There's a couple of minor blemishes on the back near the volume plate, a nick near the jack and a nick on the back of the horn. You can see by the pictures they're all minor.

Giffin Guitars started in England, where it existed in various forms from the late 60's up until the mid 80's.  During those years he was fortunate enough to hook up with a lot of very good musicians.  This gave him 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."

In the late '70s, he was designing a prototype guitar that became the  Steinberger 'M' series.

It was because of this guitar that he was offered the job to run Gibson's West Coast custom shop in Los Angeles.  He needed a change at that point, and jumped at the opportunity.         

In 1988 he moved to California. Once in L.A. and , employed by Gibson, he started building Gibson Custom instruments and fronting the Gibson West Coast repair shop. During this time, he 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.  He 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.

  In early 94', he started R&B instrument Services (on Sunset Blvd.).  For the next three years he were kept very busy mainly on repairs and service.  Then, in the spring of '97,  He started making guitars on his own again.

He worked in Los Angeles up until June of 2004 building small quantities of hand made guitars from his home. 

  In July 2004, he moved once again, and now is operating from Portland, Oregon.