CARS, GUITARS AND PRECISION MANUFACTURING

Benjamin Coffman is the owner and operator of Speed Machine LLC and Swarf Guitars. He is a USMC Veteran with over 20 years of experience in precision machining and manufacturing. He holds an AA in CNC machining, AA in drafting and modeling and a BS in Engineering from Mississippi State University. Ben has been working in a wide range of industries such as automotive, construction, hydraulic, oil field, prototype development and custom fabrication. When Ben isn’t working on his guitars, he is working on his vintage and race car projects.

Ben has been a lifelong guitar player with a passion for building custom guitars. With some creativity and hours of trial and error, he started to rethink the approach to guitar manufacturing, creating the fully aluminum guitar neck that you see today.