About Us

AXL is a musical instrument company specializing in a wide variety of instruments from student to professional levels. Our manufacturing is centered in China with its warehouse facilities conveniently located in Shanghai, China’s largest seaport. Sales, Marketing, and Administration offices are located in Hayward, CA.

Your Single Source

AXL is the single source for musical instruments. Instead of doing business with many companies around the world, AXL makes it easy to do business with just one.

With a network of 18 factories, AXL offers thousands of items, spread over a wide spectrum of musical product categories. Customers can choose any product and any quantity for shipment without quantity price differentiation. The order is placed with one account representative and there is only one set of paperwork and one payment arrangement.

All orders are manufactured in and around China, and shipped with free freight to one very large warehouse for processing. Product is then loaded into containers and shipped to 136 countries worldwide.

Award-Winning Products

AXL brand names include AXL, VHT, Recording King, Loar, Palatino, Savannah, Lucida, Guardian, Aisling, Koloa and Jambone brands.

The AXL line includes electric fretted instruments and amplifiers, cables, stands, gig bags and cases, parts, and accessories.
http://axlguitars.com/

VHT Amplification has a history of quality. First introduced to the world almost 20 years ago, VHT has become synonymous with excellent tone and boutique style.
http://vhtamp.com/products.html

The Recording King line consists of acoustic and resophonic (wood and metal body) guitars and banjos. Careful craftsmanship, historic specifications and the rich sound of instruments designed during the Golden Era makes them some of the most well-respected and sought-after fretted acoustic instruments available.
http://recordingking.com/

The Loar archtop guitars and mandolins, are hand-carved, then finished with a thin coat of nitrocellulose lacquer. The Loar instruments are modeled after traditional designs from the early 20th century.
http://theloar.com/products.html

The Palatino division encompasses vertical and grand pianos and benches, stringed instruments, brass, woodwinds, bags and cases, parts and accessories.
http://www.palatinousa.com/

Our Savannah line of instruments includes acoustic and resophonic guitars, banjos, mandolins and ukuleles.
http://www.savannahacoustic.com/

Lucida makes classical and mariachi guitars.
http://www.lucidaguitars.com/

OEM Services

AXL is also a leading OEM builder and the majority of the aforementioned products are available. AXL also welcomes the opportunity to develop product for OEM.

In addition to manufacturing, AXL also imports and distributes product from other countries into the China market.

For distribution inquiries, OEM requests or other questions, please contact us at [email protected].