"They say instrument making is a calling, rather than a career. You're drawn to it. Without a doubt that is true. It is rarely a case of "when I grow up I want to be a guitar maker". But that is how it was. I did grow up dreaming of making fine instruments. Working with the rock stars and musicians. It just took a while to get there... I started my working life as a carpenter. It was ok, but the fine woodworking was what I gravitated towards. I transferred across to a cabinet making apprenticeship, and finished my time, achieving the highest marks recorded in our state's history. An apprentice of the year nomination was offered, but the competition wasn't for me. I just wanted to make 'stuff'. I was lucky to be working with a great team, but I needed more. A period of several years as a designer saw me get bored and uninterested, even if the money was more attractive and the workspace a bit cleaner, compared to being back 'on the bench'. Guitars were my passion. If I wasn't practicing riffs and scales, I'd be sitting there staring at a guitar, trying to work out just how they work. I bored my work colleagues to tears with my constant claims that one day, I'll make a guitar. It would be amazing, I told them. And then one day, I decided I just had to do it; my new years resolution would be to build a guitar. It had to show off my skills as a woodworker, something a bit 'more' than a Les Paul or a Strat. It would have a carved single piece Quilt Maple body, and a carved back. The neck would be laminated, and deep set in. The fretboard would be inlaid with gold and silver Mother of Pearl. I'd bind the ebony fingerboard, and continue the inlay onto the headstock. Making that guitar was the best thing I could have done. It was life changing. I no longer looked at how I could succeed in life financially... I quit my job, and sold my house. Before long, as people began to learn of my first guitar, I had clients signed up for their own instruments. It was easier than they said it would be; "they" being other luthiers I'd chatted to. "You can't make a living doing this, it's impossible" was the general cry. I didn't care. Within 18 months of starting out full time, my waiting list had grown to two years. Within a few years, I'd been offered design roles, and later on, master luthier positions with some well known manufacturers. That lack of freedom didn't interest me, I'm not one for consulting with a board of directors. I look back at my body of work over the last ten years, and feel very proud. The feeling of finishing a guitar and plugging it in for the first time, or better still, watching one of my creations played live, is a feeling that will never wane. This is what I do."

-Perry Ormsby .

Roles: Assistant Luthier, Pickup Winder

Age: 27

Hometown: Perth, Western Australia

When did you join the Ormsby Guitars team: 2013

Favourite instrument we've built: Andy's Eugenics Machine (copper steampunk)

Favourite guitar to play: Buckeye Burl top Hypemachine (2015)

Amp I'd plug into first: Mesa Boogie Single Rec

Preferred music: Death Metal

Hobbies: MMA, Guitar

Roles: Luthier

Age: 32

Hometown: Perth, Western Australia

When did you join the Ormsby Guitars team: 2017

Favourite instrument we've built: Goliath Beach Fade

Favourite guitar to play: TX Eaton

Amp I'd plug into first: Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier

Preferred music: Prog

Hobbies: Playing / Recording guitar, Age Of Empires, drumsoogie Single Rec

Roles: Setups, QC, Shop Hand

Age: 24

Hometown: Perth, Western Australia

When did you join the Ormsby Guitars team: 2023

Favourite instrument we've built: Wasteland Custom Shop Bass

Favourite guitar to play: Max Black Dino

Amp I'd plug into first: Orange OR120

Preferred music: Sludge

Hobbies: Music, Gigs, Climbing

Roles: Web Developer, Assistant Luthier

Age: 28

Homecountry: Sicily, Italy

Current City: Perth, Western Australia

When did you join the Ormsby Guitars team: 2024

Favourite instrument we've built: Hype Custom Shop

Favourite guitar to play: Hype

Amp I'd plug into first: Marshall 1967 Major Lead

Preferred music: Old Blues

Hobbies: Surfing, Music, Gigs, Gym, Nature

Roles: Artist Relations

Age: 25

Hometown: Perth, Western Australia

When did you join the Ormsby Guitars team: 2024

Favourite instrument we've built: Kaseki

Favourite guitar to play: Kaseki

Amp I'd plug into first: Omega Granophyre

Preferred music: Riff

Hobbies: Sometimes writes songs.

Role: Book-keeper

Hometown: Perth, Western Australia

When did you join the Ormsby Guitars team: 2023

Favourite instrument we've built: Black Friday Hype

Amp I'd plug into first: The Boss Chom got me

Preferred music: Alt/Prog/Nu Metal

Hobbies: Xbox, Cooking, Basketball/Gym, Home Improvements, Family