"Multicoloured swirl painted guitars are the new Black"

Below are 2 examples of my new swirls, I believe that they are the first of their kind, they will not be the last. The one on the left is a neo swirl the PGM on the right is a 3D swirl, I hope you like them. Cheers Alan.

Hello and welcome to O.O.T Swirled or Out Of This Swirled. We are a new UK based company offering multicolored swirls of top quality to anyone who’s after them. On Guitars or Anything you can think of.

I have now been swirling objects of all kinds for over four and a half years. Last year I posted some pictures of my swirls in various places on the internet and they received a great response. A lot of people were asking me if I would swirl items for them. At the time the swirls were very good but I still wasn’t a hundred percent happy with them.

Over the last nine months I have been busy trying to perfect my swirls and at the same time putting things into position to create this company and be able to supply a service that I’m one hundred percent happy with.

During that time I have made several contacts, so that I can offer a wide variety of options to as wide a variety of people as possible and the list is still growing.

Right now I'm in the middle of moving to a bigger unit which will allow me to work faster and do everything inhouse. The end goal is to be able to offer a much better and quicker service, something like: Pick a body, pick its configs then pick your swirl paint colours and your away.

Swirl painting in my opinion is an Art. It's very organic, Shifting and changing constantly like the picture in the view finder of a camera before you press the button and then its captured forever, never changing and as unique as any none mass produced work of art. Two seconds later and its would have been different two seconds before and again different and no two swirls will ever and have ever been the same.
That’s why I love doing them, I have control and yet I have no control.

Here is a little about myself, bye the way my names Al.

First off I think it needs to be said that I'm serious when it comes to doing business but I'm on this earth to enjoy myself and have a laugh, even if its at my expense, hence some of the stupid things you may read on here or have already read on here.

I have most definitely not started this business to do millions of guitars or produce something that I don’t love myself unless specifically asked for by a customer. I'd rather do 1 great swirl than 50 pieces of ****.

I strive to make every swirl my best swirl yet with real bright colors, great paint coverage and a great smooth swirley pattern that you can follow round the guitar for hours, trust me this happens they're hypnotic!

I'm following in the footsteps of other swirlers who have come before me like
Darren Johansen of A.T.D (About Time Design) the company responsible for the original Ibanez swirls and as far as i am aware the first guy to ever swirl a guitar (the bowling ball finish Fender strats) so hats off to Darren where ever he is. Credit where credit is due. Another great swirler to hang up his boots this year (July 1 2008) was Herc Fede. Herc in my opinion did some great work, he seemed to be constantly churning out quality work and I spent many hours over the past couple of years looking at his swirl gallery.

I might also add that I am not doing this just to do what has been done before, I'm also here to innovate, I have a lot of ideas that are in prototype stages. I worked really hard to find out how to swirl paint correctly. So rest assured if it takes me another 4 years, you will see them. I have had a great reception from the people that I trust to show them to, so watch this space! (2 have been done now. The PGM and the hortrod neo swirled ibanez 7 string.
8 or 9 to go)

I was first introduced to swirl painting back in 91' by a good friend of mine named Jeff Clarke who owned an original Ibanez Universe with a PAW (Passion and Warfare) swirl on it. I was amazed and remember asking him how they did the paint job. He also introduced me to Steve Vai and Satch and Andy Timmons.... (Not personally) top Bloke. He also lent me my first guitar, and then another and another, talk about trust

Well there you have it, you’re up to speed. Please take a look around the site it will be updated regularly.

Alan.