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If you have a passion for the Blues as we do, you will love our guitars. We are a new company devoted to designing a range of Blues inspired guitars that are avant-garde in style, yet reflective of the guitars you love. Working closely with professional guitarists, we strive to create, design and develop a range of guitars that appeal to musicians who require that little bit more from their instruments.

In respect to the Blues and the guitars that the old Bluesmen used to play in the 1930s, '40s and beyond we have designed a range of instruments that have their roots not only embedded in the Mississippi Delta, the Blues bars, and clubs of Chicago, but also in the old catalogues of Sears & Roebuck and similar outlets.

On the 21st March 2012 we officially launched The Raw Guitar Co. at Musikmesse 2012. We unveiled two guitars from our Something Old, New, Borrowed & Blue range, namely; "The Prowler" and "The Skinny", a guitar that we have designed especially for British Blues great, Ian Siegal. These two guitars made an instant impact because they offered those that attended the show an opportunity to play an instrument that was totally non-traditional or standard, yet they remained familiar, “The Skinny”, thanks to Jason Lollar’s custom “DeArmond” blade pickup was the genuine star of the show, those that played her could not believe the tone and the power one small single pickup could create. Musikmesse 2012 provided us with the opportunity to show the world our Blues inspired guitar designs and the feedback we received was, to the say the least, unbelievable. Consequently, the guitar designs that you could not stop talking about will be developed and put into production. For those of you who could not make our debut at Musikmesse 2012 here are those designs.

Current News & Updates

We had the pleasure of meeting Mr Jimmie Vaughan after he had played an amazing headlining set at the 24th Burnley International Rock & Blues Festival. After the show Simon and Gary were invited back to his dressing room, where they had a little chat about guitars.

Blues Matters magazine have just published (Edition No. 66) a very informative article on us, explaining how we gelled together our love of the Blues with guitar design.

Simon has spent considerable time agonising how best to finish our Robert Johnson inspired "Hellhound" guitar in preparation for pre-production. Simon takes up the story.

We are very proud to announce that we have teamed up with Rosewell Amps, who design and build beautiful, handmade, retro-looking Blues influenced valve amps. We feel that they compliment our guitars beautifully, recreating those authentic warm Blues tones that was so prevalent in the West side of Chicago and beyond in the late 1950s and '60s.

Gary Grainger from The Blues Show recently invited Simon Raw onto his radio show where he talked about Something Old, New, Borrowed & Blue. You can hear the interview here.