Companies that successfully make both acoustic and electric guitars under the same roof are not common. And for acoustic-maker Alister Atkin, who founded his company back in 1995 in Canterbury, adding electric guitars to his catalogue started as, well, an April Fool’s joke back in 2020.
“We made two of our Eighty-Five models, proper Jackson-style with a paint job based on the surfboard in : green, pink and yellow,” Alister tells us. “We just thought, ‘Let’s do something stupid that people would never associate with a brand like ours: two guitars made by hand by some of the lads here who are absolute geeks
