Prisma Guitars is a small San Francisco based company that hand-builds guitars from used skateboard decks. It’s run by Nick Pourfard – a 24 year old self-taught woodworker and industrial design student with a deep love of music, guitars and skateboarding.
Each Prisma guitar is made from used, damaged and snapped skateboard decks, and Prisma machines the guitar knobs in-house on their own lathe. No two skateboard guitars are alike, and although they’re not cheap, they are built to heirloom quality – making them ideal for everyone from professional musicians to part-time plinkers.
Ben Branch has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, the official Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
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