Renowned local blues artist and West Australian Music (WAM) 2025 Blues Artist of the Year started playing his DBG Weissenborn a few years ago. The guitar was the first all Blackwood weissenborn built at DBG and was initially known as the “Black Dog”. A video of Jack playing may be found at https://www.facebook.com/reel/1928938708039165 . Jack also features on the Dog Box Guitars Youtube page.
West Australian Male Country Artist of the Year for 2023 and 2024, Ray Jones, first heard a DBG Weissenborn at the Strings Attached festival down in Margaret River back in 2019. As Ray told me it was then that such a guitar became part of his bucket list. It took until 2025 before Ray finally pulled the trigger on that dream and now his own personalised guitar features at every gig. Check out Ray’s Facebook page for videos, including this rendition of Graceland.
Renowned festival artist Ben Catley has recently joined the Dog Box Guitars artist line up with a new handbuilt Blackwood Weissenborn style guitar. Ben is known for his highly energetic playing style and has toured internationally taking his own brand of roots music to stages in Europe and Australasia. You can find Ben on his Facebook page here. Can’t wait to hear the sound of the new guitar added to Ben’s repertoire.
Matt Leftwich is a guitarist and composer from the Perth hills, blending slide, open tunings, and ambient textural elements into a sound expressive and richly layered. His playing features in the award-winning documentary Frackman, and he’s currently working on a solo project featuring a custom Weissenborn-style Dog Box Guitar. Outside the studio, Matt runs Foothill Frets, offering lessons and support for beginner to intermediate players in his local community. A video of Matt playing his DBG can be found here. More of Matt’s music may be found on Soundcloud.