Each guitar is handcrafted by Evangelos, one at a time, with no mass production, no outsourcing and no external manufacturing.
Evangelos' greatest inspiration is Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender, perhaps the most important engineering figure in the history of the electric guitar, the electric bass, and the guitar amplifier.
Although Evangelos' guitar making career started with making guitars after Leo's most iconic designs (the Telecaster and the Stratocaster), Xylon Guitars have never sold and will never sell or profit from copying Leo's design. We believe that ripping off someone's designs and simply calling them "S-Style" and "T-Style" guitars is disrespectful, unethical and hypocritical.
Evangelos' original design, is a tribute to the brilliance of Leo Fender, inspired by his passion for functionality and minimalism, and a critical statement to those that just copy Leo's designs.
We call this design the Xylon Tea, as a playful (or perhaps ironic) response to the myriads of people that copy Telecasters.