oakland axe factory

This blue Telecaster was built for me by Tom Drinkwater (formerly operating under the name Oakland Axe Factory) who has been one of the greatest, most skilled luthiers that we as a community have seen come and go during our time here on Sevenstring. I originally received this guitar back in...

This is a review of my OAF SS8 guitar I got a couple of weeks ago. I didnt do an NGD, But this can count as that as well. I waited a couple weeks to feel the guitar out, I already knew what i was in for because i have previously owned an OAF SC8 and i own an OAF SS8 prototype. Let me start...

Hey Sevenstringers, This thread is now the one stop shop for all info regarding the autumn ss.org headless build and mockup contest. Speaking of which, we are offering participants the chance to win some free stuff during this exciting build. It’s easy to take part, just upload a...

(more pics are in second post lots of words ahead so feel free to skip) I wanted to be the first doing an NGD, but things came up and it’s been delayed until now. Back in November I was in talks with Tom about getting the (then-titled) Lace Aluma-Djent pickups for my Agile 8-string, and...

Hey yall. Not sure where to put this or if its kosher. Wanted to have a single place to post about the goings on of our gear hording and musical adventures on this forum. If its not: My apologies. My band is currently finishing up the mixing of our record and since we do the whole Extended...

Tom Drinkwater from Oakland Axe Factory has been sculpting this little beauty for about four months now (impressively fast build time). It shipped last Wednesday and I waited patiently until today, when it came! Monster box for monster guitar. Inside this big box was, not only...