About Trevor Wilkinson

With well over five decades of experience in guitar design, construction and manufacturing, during which Trevor has also developed a highly focussed expertise in guitar hardware, pickups and electronics design, he has firmly established his reputation as one of the industry’s leading experts on the history of the electric guitar and the early originators and innovators, understanding what they knew, how and why they did what they did and how it changes the face of the guitar. As a result, Trevor is a master exponent of the black art of the subtleties and nuances of building truly great guitars, either in a one off custom context, or in serial volume production.

As true innovator, during a lifetime of creativity, labour and inventiveness in the guitar industry, in Australia, the USA and UK, Trevor has collaborated with many other industry legends, including Leo Fender, Seth Lover and Wayne Charvel to name but three, although the list is too long for these few words, with an ethic of mutual respect, learning, and teaching with a free flow of information which led him to conceive some of the industry’s most recognisable advancements in guitars, hardware and electronics.