The archive
Gallery.
Photos from the years Gelvin Guitars was building: one-off custom instruments, the steampunk builds, the one-piece OPS and OGS designs, and shots from the shop and the road. Click any photo to see it larger.
These photographs span the active build years of the shop, and every instrument pictured here was designed and built by hand, start to finish. Some of these guitars have full write-ups with construction details and photos of the process; those are linked below. The rest are simply part of the record: finished instruments, shop work, and a few relics from along the way. The archive exists so the work does not disappear once a guitar leaves the shop.
All photographs © 2026 William Gelvin. All rights reserved. Please do not reproduce without permission. Licensing inquiries may be submitted through the contact page.