Gladesville Guitar Factory is Australia's longest running guitar store under the same ownership. We specialise in acoustic, electric and classical guitars, an eclectic array of folk instruments, such as banjos, mandolins and ukuleles, accessories, effects pedals and repairs. Our retail premises also hosts a music tuition facility, Guitar Factory School, training the young musicians of tomorrow and many mature age players, picking up an instrument later in life.
Over the years, our store has been the destination store for musicians of all levels, from beginner to some of the most famous guitarists in the world, who have all come to love our laid-back style combined with a level of product knowledge and experience in our team that is unmatched.
Guitar Factory Gladesville originally started in the early sixties as a guitar repair business known as DeKroo Bros Music. It was one of the few guitar repair shops in Sydney and did work for major retailers such as Nicholsons, Palings and Landis Music as well as wholesalers such as Yamaha Australia and CBS who were the Fender distributors at the time. Up to a dozen Fenders would go through the workshop each week as resprays for CBS.
The business changed hands in early 1972 and the name was changed to Guitar Factory.