The Detroit Fire Department line of guitars is made from the pine wood floors of the department's former headquarters. Source: Wallace Detroit Guitars
Mark Wallace founded Wallace Detroit Guitars to “literally build guitars from Detroit history,” according to his site. Founded in 2014, the company’s guitars have so far been made from wood salvaged from an abandoned recreation center and a former auto parts plant; one line is made out of the pine wood floors of the former 1920s Detroit Fire Department Headquarters.
“People started loving the story and wanted to own a guitar that was tied to Detroit, looked beautiful and sounded great,” Wallace said in a WTKR report.
The guitars range from $2,200 to $3,800, and each is stamped with Detroit’s area code, 313, and a number indicating what building the wood came from in the city.
