Be a guitar eco-hero with Simon Lee recycled Guitars

Music with a conscience with sustainable and environmentally friendly guitars

Simon Lee Cyclotron recycled guitars are beautiful, top quality instruments that also manage to be eco-friendly. Combining traditional design and with cutting edge environmentally friendly materials, these guitars are truly a thing of beauty. Unlike many traditional instruments, the guitars do not use endangered hardwoods in their production. Instead, they have a maple neck and a body made from recycled plastic, featuring top-quality hand-wound Bare Knuckle picks ups (as used by some of the world’s most famous guitarists). This allows the guitar to be eco-friendly without sacrificing the top level sound you would expect from a high quality guitar. Each guitar is handmade to order and comes in a range of finishes, depending on the material used: ‘marble’, which uses reclaimed plastics from the food industry; snow, which uses factory-reject yoghurt pots (complete with foil fragments, giving a stone-like material that polishes to a hard shine; chilli, which uses off-cuts from industrial pipes and superfresh, a mix of domestic bottles and containers, and espresso, made from recycled coffee cups. Or there is pirate, which uses crushed CDs – which were seized by Trading Standards during a raid on illegal CD production factories – suspended in the blue plastic of office water cooler bottles, if you want a guitar with a history as interesting as the songs you play on it!  The guitars aren’t cheap – you wouldn’t expect instruments of this quality to be – but if you want to invest in an instrument that is beautiful, unique and will last a lifetime but doesn’t cost the earth, then Simon Lee Cyclotron guitars may be playing your tune.

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