Combat Guitars

Combat Guitars

Also known as: Combat, Combat Custom Guitars

Unclaimed

Combat Guitars is a Tokyo-based custom guitar and bass workshop founded in the late 1980s. The company builds each instrument entirely by hand at its Tokyo facility, forgoing CNC routing in favor of hand-operated lathes, routers, and sanders, and it has also produced OEM work for other high-end brands.

The catalog spans custom electric guitars and basses, including traditional precision- and j...

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Combat Guitars is a Tokyo-based custom guitar and bass workshop founded in the late 1980s. The company builds each instrument entirely by hand at its Tokyo facility, forgoing CNC routing in favor of hand-operated lathes, routers, and sanders, and it has also produced OEM work for other high-end brands.

The catalog spans custom electric guitars and basses, including traditional precision- and jazz-style basses alongside original boutique designs and double-cutaway electrics with features such as bookmatched flamed maple tops, mahogany necks, and rosewood fretboards. Instruments are typically built to order using woods like mahogany, maple, and ash, with options for hand-wound pickups.

Among its signature instruments is a model built for Nasty Suicide (Jan-Markus Stenfors) of the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, a single-pickup double-cutaway with gold hardware and a Seymour Duncan pickup. The brand keeps a relatively low profile outside Japan but is well regarded among collectors of Japanese luthier-built instruments.

Combat Guitars has 8 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Electric Basses, Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars, and Solid Body Electric Guitars. Their gear is featured by 1 artist, with the strongest followings in Rock and Metal. Notable users include Wataru Shindo.

Artists Who Use Combat Guitars

Wataru Shindo uses 1 Combat Guitars product

Wataru Shindo

Bassist

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