ONE

As rockers, rockets, kings & bad habits use fancy names I do the same. My name is C. J. Himmelstrutz. Why? To honour the Swedish author, Captain Sture Dahlström who in one of his novels told us the amazing story about the man, the myth, Caotico Q Himmelstrutz…

TWO

A saturday in April 1976 I was as usual hanging around any radio available and suddenly the intro of Jailbreak was heard. What a riff! What a sound! I was trapped immediately and this made me start playing guitar the same day, at least in the head…

THREE

At this point it happened I also started to play with electronics, because of what's explained above—the sound was, and still is, at least as important as the actual playing! This might have happened in 1978, while the fantastic record on where we could find Up Against The Wall was played, and again & again…

FOUR

The first guitar amplifier was completed in 1982 and here we are now, 35 years later (2017) with all the way original designed guitar tools, 100% handmade in Sweden…

Welcome to Himmelstrutz Elektro Art!