About
Redeemed guitars actually started as a motorcycle. Me (Jed) and my friend Bob Ranew decided to find an old bike that hadn’t seen any love in many years, and bring it back to life. So we bought a 1974 Honda CL450 did exactly that. We stripped it, cut it, welded it, painted it, rebuilt it and eventually, we rode it. We did it in my basement and it took eight guys to carry it out of there. That was the very beginnings of Redeemed Cycles and you should go check them out immediately.
I wanted to build things, but my passion was more around guitars, so I shifted gears and hatched the idea of Redeemed Guitars. Same notion at the beginning which was to find old parted-out modified and generally abused guitars and turn them in to something useful, something cool, and then release them back in to the wild. And that’s what I did starting in 2012.
In 2018 I decided to work on some prototype guitars of my own design. The thinking was to make them original but familiar, to pay respect but not to copy. I like to think of them as your best friend that you haven’t met yet. Over the next few years I came up with three models, the DeVille, the Eldorado, and the Fleetwood. Each has its inspiration, each has its own vibe.