Mark Gilbert Electric Guitars
Mark Gilbert Electric Guitars
Mark Gilbert Guitars was established in 2010 and our guitars are highly prized by today's musicians including Wolf Mail and session maestro Peter Northcote.
Each Mark Gilbert Guitar is made from the best, sustainably sourced Tasmanian wood including: Figured Tasmanian Blackwood, Musk, Black Heart Sassafras, Myrtle (Burled, Striped and Tiger) and Huon Pine. The vast majority of these woods are sourced from Chain of Custody certified suppliers. A world first, Fine Timber Tasmania's Chain of Custody is an innovative and credible program that guarantees the exotic Tasmanian timber has been legally sourced from a sustainable managed forest and represents a responsible purchase decision.
These woods off er a distinctly natural looking guitar. No two pieces of wood are the same and each guitar is unique.
To further enhance the uniqueness of a Mark Gilbert Guitar, purchasers can customise the instrument with a choice of high quality components, as well as specifying custom inlays on the body or fret board.
About Mark Gilbert
Mark Gilbert made his first guitar in 1987. A graduate of the University of Tasmania, Mark was a primary school teacher for a decade, before leaving teaching to pursue a career as a self employed graphic artist and mural painter.
Self taught in the fields of graphic design, signwriting, rotary and laser engraving and screen printing, he started his own promotional products business - Gecko Promotions - which he has been running in partnership with his wife Karen for the past ten years.
Mark has had a keen lover of the blues for nearly 30 years. In the eighties Mark made friends with a Tasmanian drummer, the late Robin Andrews and his blues band "National Collection". Through this band he met with many blues greats such as Robert Lockwood Junior, Champion Jack Dupree and Robert Cray, who all signed portraits that Mark had created of them.
In 2011 Mark met Wolf Mail at one of his Tasmanian gigs and showed the bluesman one of his guitars. Wolf was sufficiently impressed by Mark's skills as a luthier to ask him to create a signature Wolf Mail guitar. Five years on Wolf is an enthusiastic endorser of Mark Gilbert guitars (of which he owns four) and plays them exclusively.