Blackbird Guitars

Blackbird Guitars
Blackbird Guitars is a San Francisco, California, USA manufacturer founded in 2005 by Joe Luttwak and Kyle Wolfe, that make carbon fibre Guitars.

Two years later in 2007, after a lot of prototyping, they started commercially making four black carbon fibre Guitars and a black carbon fibre Tenor Ukulele, this whole black range has now been discontinued.

In 2013 they started using a sustainable bio-composite made from the natural linen fibres of the flax plant, that Blackbird invented and called ekoa. They claim it has all of the strength and weatherproof qualities of carbon fibre but is lighter, more natural looking and give a better, more wood like tone. With it they started making Guitars and added a Concert Ukulele they called Clara to their catalogue.

Blackbird went on and phased out production of all of their black carbon fibre models and replaced their original Tenor Ukulele with an ekoa Tenor they call Farallon in their Ukulele range.

On a design note the little hole on the headstock is suppose to be a second sound port as the neck is hollow; how effective it is I couldn't say?