Custom Guitars & Pedals

All Things Creative

Damn Strings is a small workshop located in the Jordaan neighborhood, surrounded by canals and tilted three-century buildings in the heart of Amsterdam.

Damn Strings is all about bringing as many creative layers into the guitar and pedal making, crafting and assembling by hand and passion, believing that things made with love make a difference.

Damns Strings guitars and pedals are not usual instruments that one can buy off-the-shelf in a music shop, they are unique devices built from an Arts perspective, where form, sometimes, doesn’t follow function, and where dreams of sounds, shapes, textures, and colors turn into actionable musical objects.

Owners of Damn Strings instruments know that they own one-offs, personal devices, built to their needs and taste with great craftsmanship and passion.

For questions or commissions contact Damn Strings at damn@damnstrings.com.

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Damn Strings Guitars

One-off instruments with unique sound

Each of Damn Strings guitars comes with a story within. A story of craftsmanship that seeks elevating what seems trivial and transform it into art.

Damn Strings MK VI

A four-strings CGB tuned in open E, featuring a full scale-length neck, and a hotrail humbucker pickup.

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Damn Strings MK V

A three-strings CGB tuned in open G, with a three-pole single coil pickup, built around an old cigarbox that belonged to my grandfather.

Damn Strings MK IV

A three-string, full scale-length CGB, tuned in open G, featuring a golden, single-coil, pickup, and a solid and luxurious CGB.

Damn Strings MiniAmps

Small, big, companions, to play anywhere

Damn Strings mini amps are built with the idea of being able to play your guitar anywhere with minimal space needed, and maximum class.

Damn Strings MiniAmp MK IV

Hand painted and decorated with black vinyl, MIniAmp MK IV is a 5watt mini amp powered by a 9V battery.

Damn Strings MiniAmp MK III

Built from a cigar box of 21x21cm, MIniAmp MK III is a 5watt mini amp powered by a 9V battery.

Damn Strings MiniAmp MK II

Built from a cigar box of 17x17cm, MIniAmp MK II is a 5watt mini amp powered by a 9V battery.

Damn Strings Pedals

Journeys of craft and tech

Every pedal encapsulates a journey on itself to new areas of sound design, experimentation and craft techniques, making them unique on their own.

Bass Booster MKI

A Rangemaster Booster modified to boost bass frequencies, built around a soviet-era MP42b germanium transistor

Humble Bee

A rounded and warm Overdrive built around a low-noise BC548b transistor

Double Trouble

Double Trouble is a savage pedal combining an overdrive feeding an electra, resulting in a sound that goes from overdrive to gnarly fuzz

Black Whale Reverb

The Black Whale Reverb is a Box of Hall clone built around the Acutronics BTDR-2 brick, enclosed in a golden metallic paint box with black vinyl labels and graphics.

LKTR

LKTR is an Electra Distortion clone using the classic yet raging 2N3904 transistor with a hand-painted box in metallic green paint and yellow vinyl for the graphics.

Tone Bender mkII clone

A Tone Bender mkII clone built around three soviet-era MP42b PNP transistors, and includes a voltage inverter for easy daisy chain in negative-ground pedal boards.