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{{Infobox Company
|company_name=Halo Guitars
|company_logo=[[Image:Halologo.jpg|200px]]
|company_slogan=''"Built By Musicians, Priced For Musicians"''
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|company_type=[[Private company|Private]]
|foundation=[[2000]]
|founder=Belinda Lee & Waylon Ford
|location=[[Cupertino, California|Cupertino]], [[California]], [[United States of America]]
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|area_served=Global
|industry=[[Musical Instruments]]
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|owner=Halo Custom Guitars, Inc.
|homepage=[http://www.haloguitars.com/ www.haloguitars.com] 
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'''HALO GUITARS''' is a manufacturer of musical instruments.  Primarily known for the outrageous guitar body designs. Formed by musicians to build guitars for musicians and sell them at a price that musicians can afford.

==History==

[[Image:Brandywhirtzad.jpg‎ ‎|thumb|170px|left|Halo Guitars Ad 2007<br>Photo by: Allan Amato]]
[[Image:Halocover.jpg‎ ‎|thumb|170px|left|Halo cover of Rock City News 2006]]

Halo Guitars was created in [[2000]] by Belinda Lee and [[luthier]] Waylon Ford who began building guitars at an early age.  They thought that most of the guitar companies out there had stagnated in designs and also believed that most of them had become greedy and charged high prices to the public. They decided to do what he could to change things by starting up his own company and manufacturing hand made quality instruments that where affordable. The first Halo guitars were released at the [[2000]] Winter [[NAMM]] show and featured designs that were edgier and popular with the metal genre' of musicians.  These designs quickly gained in popularity because of the outrageous designs, performance, and fast-playing neck. 

Halo's marketing strategy, which featured gorgeous fetish models (known as the Halo Gals) holding the guitars in unique poses, made people compare them to a young [[Dean Guitars]]. Halo uses a gorilla warfare marketing strategies (Club Showcases, Conventions, Billboards, Radio, and Television) that were not common in the MI industry. On top of that Halo uses the Halo Gals & the Halo street team play a huge roll in the marketing as well. The Halo street team has grown drasticly in the last two years to over 35,000 and continues to grow each day. 

In 2007 at the winter [[NAMM]] show, Halo Guitars revealed the 8 string guitars that were made possible by the joint action of Halo owner Waylon Ford & [[Kahler Tremolo System]] owner Gary Kahler. Since then they have been know to cross the bar in many ways and are considered one of the up and coming guitar companies of this generation.

==Halo Gals==

The Halo Gals are an organization of models, burlesque performers, fetish performers, sideshow performers, roller durby skaters, and more. 

They do promotions for Halo Guitars in many ways. You will see them in Ads, Billboards, Shirts, Calendars, Concerts, Conventions, Charity Events '''(Crue Fest's, Thrash Against Cancer, & Horns for Halo's)''', Side Shows '''(Cirque de Lecti)''', Burlesque Revue's '''(Thee Vaude Villains & Jezaell & the Spook Show Babies)''', in your local Pubs & Clubs pumpming the Halo name everywhere they can. They also head the street teams in each ones designated area.

As of 2007 HALO GALS have gone "GLOBAL", now we can be spotted from the United States to Europe.

==Guitar Designs==

===Halo Guitars Designs===
[[Image:Halohellfireguitar1.jpg‎ ‎|thumb|216px|right| Halo Hellfire Guitar<br>Released July 2006]]

*'''Hellfire''' 
*'''Satyr''' 
*'''D-Spawn''' 
*'''Octavia''' 
*'''Bettie Page''': This model was designed and styled with [[Bettie Page]]. Only 100 were made and signed by Bettie Page. 
*'''Inverted''' 
*'''GVK''' (This guitar is hand-carved)
*'''BH Series''' 
*'''Fallen Angel''' 
*'''Violon'''

===Discontinued Halo Guitars Designs===

*'''JLP-VI'''
*'''PT-VI'''
*'''BLH-VI'''
*'''SNINE'''
*'''TFG''' ([[Tracii Guns]] Signature Model)
*'''DA-VI'''

==Famous Halo Guitar Users==
[[Image:Ccwf.jpg‎ ‎|thumb|192px|left|[[C.C. Deville]] of [[Poison (band)|Poison]] with Halo Guitars Co-Owner Waylon Ford]]


*[[Tracii Guns]] ([[LA Guns]]), ([[Brides Of Destruction]])
*[[London LeGrand]] ([[Brides Of Destruction]])
*Scott Sorry ([[Brides Of Destruction]])
*Glen Telford ([[Skinlab]])
*[[David Shankle]] ([[Manowar]])
*[[C.C. Deville]] ([[Poison (band)|Poison]])
*E-Rock Z. ([[TLC (band)|TLC]], Fetisch)
*W4D (Black Tongue, Down Factor)
*Joe Fraulob (Danzig)
*Tony Smotherman
*[[Mark Boals]] ([[Yngwie J. Malmsteen]], [[Ring of Fire (Mark Boals album)|Ring of Fire]])
*[[Taime Downe]] ([[Faster Pussycat]])
*[[Danny Nordahl]] ([[Faster Pussycat]])
*Angel (Ky Deity, Fetisch)

[[Image:W4dhalo.jpg‎ ‎|thumb|216px|right| W4D of Black Tongue &  Down Factor with the Halo Fallen Angel Bass]]

==External links==
*[http://www.haloguitars.com/ Official Halo Website]
*[http://www.myspace.com/halogals Official Halo Gal MySpace]
*[http://www.myspace.com/haloguitars Official Halo MySpace]

[[Category:Electric bass guitars by manufacturer]]
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