ZZ Ryder guitars were made in China from around 2004 to 2008 for Stenzler Musical Instruments. The ZZ Ryder 2004 catalog describes the range as follows:
"You've entered the Eclectic Electric Guitar World of ZZ Ryder, the world's newest, most innovative guitars. These sexy guitars and basses are built to play, with hot rod electronics that let you emulate your favorite guitars at a price that you'll want to keep to yourself.
ZZ Ryder's unique guitars come in a variety of shapes and sizes from the short scale Rip your face off travel-sized (22 1/2 scale) Model 2 series to the artist acclaimed Model 3 series (24 3 4 scale).All ZZ Ryders have coil taps to let you go from a phatt,powerful humbucking to a single coil on steroids at the flip of a switch or via the push/pull potentiometers.