Solace Instruments
Solace Instruments is a small, boutique workshop building electric guitars and basses from quality, exotic tone woods and/or NZ/Australian timbers.
Founded and run by Dave Pauling — a 5th-generation Kiwi, (living in Australia), with over 15 years experience — all Solace instruments are crafted made with care, passion and creativity.
Repurposed
New Zealand timbers such as rimu, matai and Australian timbers such as Blackwood and Qld red cedar make great looking guitars that sound amazing.
Due to the forestry act of 1949, milling of NZ Natives is rare, but the timber is there if you know where to look. Select Solace guitars and basses are crafted from repurposed timber both saving our native forests and enabling them to 'live' again.
Dave Pauling
Luthier
I have been building instruments on and off since I was young but consistently from 2009. The craft of working with wood combined with the art of music is a joy. Perhaps it is in the blood, coming down from Vincenzo and his son Louis Panormo through my father's lineage.
Every instrument is unique and crafted with great care.
Home is the beautiful region of Marlborough, New Zealand, and also here, near the Blue Mountains of Sydney, Australia.