ET Guitars Australia, and the Taylor-Made Custom Shop, provide quality custom guitar products, parts, and luthier supplies, to guitarists, luthiers and techs around the world. We aim to provide a one-stop solution for guitarists, and offer a rare opportunity for you to make your instrument as unique and personalised as you wish. 6 , 7 , 8 string with a range of standard or baritone scales, or multiscale options.

ET Guitars was founded by Ernie Taylor, from a life-long love of the electric guitar. Inspired by KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, Ernie used to sketch guitar designs at an early age, and later found inspiration from the Ibanez, Jackson, Dean and ESP guitar companies, who in their heyday of the 1980's and 1990's, produced some truly innovative and beautiful instruments. Initially frustrated with the lack of options offerred to the general public by the major international guitar companies, Ernie started out with some power tools, sand paper and elbow grease and began work. The first guitars were the Marble and Lightning, both paying homage and tribute to the awesome Ibanez Jem line of guitars, designed by Steve Vai. Further inspiration came in the form of swirl artwork, first done on electric guitars by Darren Johansen for the Fender and Ibanez companies.

By 2005, the prototypes received positive feedback by international guitar forums, and the Marble in particular appeared on various "Most Beautiful Guitar" forum threads. The interest from the guitar community turned into requests for similar custom work to be done for them... and by 2007 Ernie found the need to set up a company and expand the workshop in order to handle the custom work demand. In 2010, ET introduced inhouse standard models - the Tomahawk baritone 7 string model, and shortly after the innovative Katana baritone 7 string designed in conjunction with Josh Smith of Northlane. The Katana was one of the first guitar models to use as standard the Wenge, Ash and Ebony timber combination that is very distinctive in tone and resonance, and in later years became more common in the custom guitar arena, along with major companies using similar combinations.

In 2015, the WarMachine model was first offered, being a tribute to the UK Blackmachine design, and also the MIG Headless Ergonomic style, both available in Multiscale format. In 2016, ET guitars released a production line of guitar, built by a Chinese manufacturing partner, that included the new Avenger model, the Tomahawk, Katana and MIG Headless designs. The models being more affordable, but still high quality and attractive options alongside the inhouse builds. By mid 2017, ET had surpassed 500 in-house builds.

ET Guitars became a regular exhibitor at the Melbourne Guitar Show, with booths in 2017, 2018 and 2019, showcasing all latest builds and custom guitars for endorsees.

ET Guitars then first exhibited at Winter NAMM in Anaheim, California USA in January 2020, sharing a booth with Frank Falbo of Falbo Designs, and Mighty Mite parts supplier. The main guitars exhibited were the Multiscale Tremolo superstrats, the first production guitars of their kind in the world. These guitars were recognised in the Top 15 NAMM 2020 Editors Picks in Premier Guitar magazine.

Today, the ET Guitars workshop is continuing to expand, and the quality of designs and workmanship improves with every product made.

From the power tool and sandpaper beginnings, ET Guitars now has the following capabilities;

  • Warehouse, for the expanding inventory of parts and supplies.

  • Computer Numerical Control (CNC) carving equipment.

  • Laser cutting/engraving equipment.

  • CAD design software

  • Vinyl decal cutting machine

  • 381mm planing machine, 380mm drum sander, edge sander and spindle sander

  • 14" bandsaw

  • Dust extraction system

  • Pickup winding machine

  • Professional refinishing equipment, spraybooth and buffing spindles.

  • about a thousand specialty hand tools

  • about one million fabrication jigs

  • about one billion clamps and fixtures