Gene Baker Guitars

What can you say about Gene Baker? He's a mad man first and foremost, having dedicated his life towards the evolution and improvement of the electric guitar as we know it. Gene Baker guitars are known for their smooth, comfortable lines that are very appealing to the eye.

Victor Baker Guitars

The main attribute that separates a Victor Baker instrument from others is the fact that they are made by a professional player with a musician's sensibility. He builds on a very limited basis and relies on his experience as a professional musician in shaping the way the instrument plays and sounds.

Mario Beauregard Guitars

DestroyAllGuitars is honored to announce that we are now representing world class luthier Mario Beauregard who's recent works have been breaking down boundaries and pushing the envelope of guitar design across most all genres especially that of the Archtop, Hollow-Body, Flat-Top, Thinline and Jazz-Nylon.

Tom Bills Guitars

Tom Bills Loves his craft. He passionately strives to push the envelope, challenging and testing tradition. Every guitar is an original, a harmonious collaboration of player and maker. The designs are fueled by faith, hope and a knowing that all things are possible.

Bombshell Guitars

John Mayes started his lutherie career in 1996 when he built his first instrument, a walnut/cedar parlor guitar. He continued to build guitars, pouring himself into each one as they continually improved. He accepted a position, working under the guidance of luthier Dana Bourgeois at Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston, Maine. While in Maine, John had a hand in building hundreds of guitars, refining his skills along the way. Some time later, John moved back to his home state of Oklahoma to start his own lutherie, Mayes Guitars...

Briggs Guitars

Briggs guitars are hand built in very limited quantities with the best tone woods available. Every Briggs guitar receives the same loving attention to detail in construction, finish and setup as the next. The amount of skilled handwork required to produce a Briggs guitar is staggering. Work of this quality is hardly found in any production instrument today at any price.

Chapin Guitars

For over twenty years Bill Chapin has not only been building fine quality instruments but also exploring, in-depth, the interactions of design, materials and methods that make an instrument great, and each instrument unique.

Comins Guitars

Highlighting a twenty year career span in luthiery is Bill Comins' international reputation for building some of the most exquisite archtop jazz guitars ever produced. Comins' archtops are coveted for their rich, warm, highly articulate voice, and are often described as having a "broken in" or "old wood" sound.

Fibenare Guitars

Fibenare Co. has it’s roots in Hungary in the 1980s. The Benedek Family was a family of musicians. All family members studied classical music for several years in their hometown Kecskemét. Kecskemét is a well-known town all over the world thanks to its tradition of musical education involving Zoltán KODÁLY.

Giffin Guitars

Roger Giffin started Giffin Guitars in England, where it existed in various forms from the late 60's up until the mid 80's. During those years he was fortunate enough to hook up with a lot of very good musicians. This gave him the opportunity and encouragement to design and build guitars that became widely accepted in England at that time...

Gustavsson Guitars

Johan Gustavsson has been a professional touring and session guitarist for well over 2 decades. His experiences as both a luthier and a seasoned player made it abundantly clear that he had to supply his clients with instruments that at least rivaled the finest vintage and boutique guitars available, both in terms of playability and beauty.

Hahl Guitars

The name Hahl is synonymous with superbly handcrafted, beautiful instruments. Stefan Hahl personally hand-builds every guitar that bears his name. Each Hahl guitar is endowed with its own distinct tonal qualities, unique aesthetic personality and superb playability, all of which inspire the musician to new creative heights.

Hahn Guitars

Chihoe Hahn has been a musician since 1978 and has played guitar from New York City to Athens, GA, to LA, and back. He has been fixing, tweaking and modifying guitars for over 20 years. Hahn began building guitars in 2003 -- basically out of a desire to find an ultra-responsive, clear, articulate guitar that sounds like the old country, soul and rock records that he loves.

Henman-Bevilacqua Guitars

In 2005, three diverse, sometimes difficult, and opinionated minds came together to form HENMAN-BEVILACQUA GUITARS. Each aware of the other’s strengths and weaknesses, they held one common vision. The dream was to fuse minimalism, craftsmanship, art, and old school quality to create the ultimate masterpieces… perfect for the master guitarist, yet with a sly nod to the image conscious connoisseur everywhere.

Hopkins Guitars

A Hopkins archtop guitar embodies the essence of the early hand-carved, hollow body design. With the focus on structure, acoustic quality and impeccable finish rather than adornments and ornamentation, Peter Hopkins' instruments are compelling in their visual beauty, and commanding in their performance.

Nik Huber Guitars

"...what we do, is to turn beautiful pieces of wood into excellent guitars. As easy as it sounds, this process requires not only a reasonable amount of experience, it is also a never ending story of mishaps, dead-end-streets and tiny little pieces of metal that won't fit into their tiny little holes. Building fine instruments can be a very bumpy ride. On the other hand: this is the fun part, too."

-Nik Huber

William Jeffrey Jones Guitars

Since roughly 1988, William Jeffrey Jones has been a full-time commercial sculptor - a hired gun sculpting prototypes for various manufacturers, primarily the toy industry during the last decade. His toy/figure client list has included McFarlane (www.spawn.com), NECA (www.necaonline), The Four Horsemen, Master Replicas (www.masterreplicas.com), and Jean St. Jean Studios to name a few. He has also worked extensively in the giftware, display, and architectural ornamentation industries...

Klepper Guitars

Howard Klepper began working on guitars in 1968, by buying old guitars in pawnshops and fixing them up. In 1970, he moved to Berkeley, and had the good fortune to meet and work with Larry Jameson and Mike Stevens at the original Guitar Resurrection shop. He learned much of what he knows about guitar repair from them.

Koll Guitars

There are guitar makers and there are GUITAR MAKERS. Among the finest luthiers working today, Saul Koll constructs Innovative, bold new designs that are evocative, reminiscent, and familiar. These are the modern comfort food for the vintage guitar aficionado.

Lacey Guitars

Mark Lacey's career in building musical instruments began in 1974 when he attended The London College of Furniture & Interior Design. The college offered a three year full time course in Musical Instrument Technology. Lacey spent the first two years building mostly early fretted instruments from the renaissance and baroque periods. These included lutes, guitars, citerns and viols. During his final year at college he concentrated on building modern fretted guitars.

MANNdolins

Jonathan Mann developed his signature neck-thru acoustic mandolin design in 2002 and from then on focused on building mandolins. His unique neck-thru design allows for the cellular continuity of neck wood into the body while still leaving the body cavity hollow.

McInturff Guitars

Terry McInturff has been awarded two Guitar Player Magazine "Editor's Pick Awards" for the McInturff Royal and the McInturff Taurus Standard (both of which are still in the current model lineup) and he has appeared on the cover of Guitar Player and Guitarist magazines...

Myka Guitars

David Myka builds each and every guitar entirely by hand. Every tool he uses is directly controlled by him without the use of automated machinery. In this way he can produce a much more integrated guitar in terms of overall tone and workmanship. When designing and building these guitars Myka takes every opportunity to fine tune the design to fit the particular tonal requirements and the results are well worth the effort..

Shelley Park Guitars

Shelley D. Park has been building guitars in Vancouver, British Columbia since 1991. Her love of the music of Django Reinhardt has led her to focus her skills on constructing guitars based on the designs of Mario Maccaferri and the Selmer Company of France. Shelley's gypsy jazz guitars embody the classic sound and design of the original instruments while reflecting a contemporary approach to lutherie.

Pheo Guitars

No, you didn't forget to put on your glasses! These fractured, yet crafted, random yet profoundly organized instruments are the creations of Phil Sylvester of Pheo Guitars. They are the very epitome of functional art - they play, beautifully, even startlingly well. They are consummate instruments that press hard at the boundaries of what we normally think an instrument "should" be.

Ribbecke Guitar Corporation

Tom Ribbecke has been building guitars for over thirty years. He is one of the premier archtop builders in the world, with a considerable waiting list and many different models of guitars and basses employing carved top and back technology. He also makes conventional steel string and classical guitars to order.

Ruokangas Guitars

Ever since Juha Ruokangas first picked up an electric guitar as a kid, he saw it as an "interesting object constructed in a certain way of certain materials" - and he wanted to see inside it. So he tore his first cheap (brand new) strat copy to pieces just to know more. He's still on that journey.

Mike Sabre

For the last 30 years, Sabre has been a ten-hours-a-day professional Luthier, creating some thoroughly personal models of Guitars and Basses, in addition to repairing and setting up thousands of instruments.

Schaefer Guitars

Ed Schaefer's guitars have been featured in "Just Jazz Guitar", " Twentieth Century Guitar", "Vintage Guitar", on the cover of the "Guitar Encyclomedia" (Mike Overly), on the cover of "Melodic Studies and Composition for the Serious Musician" (a Mel Bay publication by Fred Hamilton), Many covers of CD's and are played by such notable musicians as Rich Severson, Fred Hamilton, Mike Nase, Mike Wheeler, Frank D'Rone, Danny Gioioso, Sam Miltich, Mark Kreitzer...

Scharpach Guitars

Theo Scharpach was born near Vienna, Austria. He has been making guitars for almost 25 years. Currently, the Scharpach workshop is in Bergeyk, in the Netherlands. Theo was trained in the fine art of wood handcrafting. In addition, he also graduated as an antique furniture restorer. The Scharpach guitar-shop opened in 1976.

Soloway Guitars

Based on a unique extended 27-inch scale length, the Soloway Long Neck guitars produce a tonal clarity, presence and articulation that is truly revolutionary. When playing a Soloway, the notes just seem to jump off the instrument. And the added scale length and rigidity provide the Soloway with great sustain to match its signature clarity.

Thorell Guitars

Thorell guitars are a commitment to the idealistic vision of what a guitar can be. Each guitar is crafted with an individual intent, that the whole process of building this particular guitar will be a unique experience. This plays across directly to the guitarist; their experience of this instrument is as personal as their own expression.

Vinetto Guitars

Authentic body shapes, contours, woods, hardware styles and other appointments as inspired by the classic Fullerton, California styles of the 1950's and 60's. All bodies and necks are made from our own stock of woods to our exact specs. Body tonewoods are specially selected and graded for weight and tonality...

Verrilli Guitars

Frank Verrilli is originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has been a full time artist for over 20 years. Initially in his career he worked exclusively in wood, carving both relief and three dimensionally. He later began doing pieces in stone and bronze as well. About mid career he also began painting. So his background is a bit different than some other guitar makers.

Scott Walker Guitars

Music is the language of the soul and knows no boundaries. It weaves its thread though time and cultures. On this plane you will find an instrument maker tapping into your imagination. Scott Walker is a luthier who specializes in the custom guitar experience of today. Throwing stones at the glass house of the norm, Scott builds instruments one at a time and collaborates with some of the finest, specialty professionals who assist in taking the instruments to the next level.

Wendler ElectroCoustic

The Wendler Electrocoustic is inspired by the tonal subtlety and beauty of the acoustic steel stringed guitar, and the practical application of simple engineering in a fully electric solid body instrument. You will find a dynamic impact just not available in other acoustic/electric designs, with a touch of nuance that needs to be experienced first hand.