“If you look at the surface you can see pieces of oars, remote controls, scalpel blades, Warhammer models, an old vacuum cleaner, even a Covid test.” Devil & Sons' Daniel Wallis on his sci-fi-inspired Craftcaster guitars

It had to happen. Original customizers Devils & Sons Guitars have revealed their new “classic sci-fi” “inspired” guitars. We’re sure they’ll divide opinions…

The Craftcasters were handcrafted by artist and luthier Daniel Wallis, using the same techniques used by the model makers in the original Star Wars and Alien films.

They come in two models: the Genesis, which is a custom Epiphone SG, which features a pair of original 1979 T-Top humbuckers taken from an SG built that year, and the Solar, which takes its name from the model of Alchemy Pickups humbucker with the same name in bridge position. The Solar also sports an Alchemy Eternity P90 in the neck.

This isn’t the first time he’s done this. In the past, he transformed a Millennium Falcon toy into a bass guitar, called the Rebel bass, and commemorated the 30th anniversary of Aliens with a Xenomorph axe.

During confinement, he spent days watching model makers and accessories on YouTube and, inspired by this, he made the bodies of the two guitars by adding all kinds of everyday junk: “If you look at the surface, you can see pieces of oars, remote controls, scalpel blades, Warhammer models, an old vacuum cleaner, and even a Covid test.

Wallis’ own background is in art, but needless to say, he’s also a guitarist. In 2014, he found a way to combine his two activities and his love of science fiction by installing Devils & Sons guitars.

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The Rebel bass was his first effort, but since then he has built custom Vampire, Viking, and Vigilante guitars for German band Inner Axis, ethereal, steampunk guitars for Doctor Gothic, and special band-logo guitars for Ginger Wildheart and Mickey from Skindred.

He has described his work as “a piece of art that you can play” and earlier this year both Craftcasters were exhibited at the Mumphoria Art Gallery in Soho.

Wallis already has plans for how future models will be built: “I’ve been using these guitars as a proof of concept, to show them to customers and to present them at guitar shows. The person buying them is actually buying a unique piece of art that you can play with. In the future, I expect customers will come to me, as they do, with guitars that they love to play but just don’t like me to customize.

“I will also be working on a design that I can create completely from scratch with my own body shape and from which I can create a Craftcaster edition.”

Apparently the next step is a guitar inspired by the Ghostbusters Proton Pack. Meanwhile, if you fancy one of the Craftcasters, they’re yours for just, er, £3,080. For more information, visit devil-sons-guitars-shop.fourthwall.com

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