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.

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.

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.

Bruton String Works

Ben Bruton is an extremely talented and gifted builder who is driven by a passion and dedication that is inspiring to see. His skill set and experience place him on a level along side many of today's top solid, semi and full hollowbody builders.

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.

Dagmar Custom Guitars

Dagmar Custom Guitars is one of the newest, exclusively unique and most innovative companies since the inception of the guitar itself. The creator, Pete Swanson, is an incredibly gifted artisan who is self taught in the art of luthery. Pete’s woodworking chops were first cut in the high-end boat building industry and have seamlessly transferred into the world of boutique guitars. . .

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.

Chris George Guitars

Armed only with an A5 paper bound copy of, "How to Build a Folk Guitar" by John Bailey, purchased at the first ever Keele Folk Festival, Chris built his first guitar in 1966. It was a 12 string acoustic inspired by seeing John Lennon playing one in a Beatles film..

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...

Goldbug Guitars

GoldBug Products was founded by Sam “Sandy” Winters after several decades as a professional musician and instrument maker with the purpose of designing and manufacturing the finest metal parts for fretted instruments. Goldbug replacement tuner knobs and bridge pins went into production in the spring of 1997 through a collaboration with foundry artist and musician Daniel Baughman. Their products were first introduced at the 1997 Healdsburg Guitar Festival and were an immediate success, selling out their first production run in three days....

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.

GVCG

Jonathan Wilson and GVCG create a new type of timeless classic, the "Organic Vintage Replica," which defies all odds and scientific norms to produce an instrument that absolutely feels, sounds, and looks old. His work is both uncanny, and unmatched. The GVCG models that have been released to the public have created quite a stir among players and astute collectors alike. Each model is completely hand hewn, rubbed, and crafted to produce an instrument that is truly unique...

Hartung Guitars

Frank Hartung is a guitar maker out of passion. His professional carpenter training created the connection to the natural material of wood and provided him with the basic skills for what he does today. For half of his life he has been working with wood and since 2001 he has been building guitars. Wood is a material that fascinates and inspires Frank continuously...

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...

BC Kingston Guitars

Brian Kingston bought his first stereo using all his summer job savings in 1969. He was only 14 years old but because of a competitive swimming background he was traveling with a group of 18-20 year-olds to different towns to teach swimming. A couple of the kids played guitar and listened to guitar music constantly. It was there for the first time during the Woodstock summer that Kingston experienced the magic of guitars. In short order he became obsessed with guitar music and tone. As his ears received their education and became more sophisticated he realized the subtle nuances in tone improvement as one climbs the stereo cost ladder...

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.

Malinoski Art Guitars

Peter Malinoski never expected to become an artist, but this is what he is, and he's been making art objects for almost 30 years. He made his first guitar in 1986 because he was not satisfied with the store bought standard he then owned and there weren't many other options back then. From that first instrument he was hooked on the idea of making wildly different electric guitars than are typical, the potential for their creation as a beautiful functioning object seems endless...

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..

Monty Guitars

Brian Monty started out as a guitar player and has continued as a guitar player who makes guitars. After forty-five years of playing and holding guitars, Monty knows what one should feel like in the hands of the player. What has always fascinated him has been the sound generated by the fashioning of the wood itself, those first notes as the guitar is strung up to tension. To Brian Monty, a guitar is a musical instrument that is meant to be played, not to be purchased and then confined to a vault. With this in mind, he fashions guitars that feel, sound and play like you have had it for thirty years. . .

John Page Guitars

John Page started building guitars out of necessity. He was a kid in his early teens with a lot of desire to play guitar and virtually no money to buy one. Figuring "it can't be that hard," he proceeded to attempt building his first guitar. After weeks of work, filled with anticipation and excitement, he threw it in the trash... it totally sucked. That was over thirty years ago, but John continued building guitars, until he got it right...

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.

Potvin Guitars

Since the age of 8, Mike Potvin has been fascinated with guitars. Ironically, it would not be until much later in life before he picked up the instrument with a serious intent to play. Fortunately, in the years leading up to that point he pursued another passion - working with wood. When he was inspired to bring the two passions together, Potvin Guitars was born...

Rahbek Guitars

Rahbek Guitars is a company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founder Peter Rahbek has 11 years experience building and designing guitars and his guitars can be seen onstage with danish bands and on tv-shows in the hands of experienced session players demanding only the best. Rahbek Guitars produces 3 basic guitar models - Standard, Classic and Cos-T - with a wide range of options but if you desire something outside the standard options everything can be suited to your tastes...

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.

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.

Teuffel

Ulrich Teuffel's great-grandfather was an engineer, his grandfather was an engineer, his father is an engineer, his second grandfather was a cabinetmaker, his uncle is a cabinetmaker, his granduncle was a painter: as you can imagine, becoming an accountant has never been Teuffel's ambition. An inventor is a bit more his style...

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.

Michael Tuttle Guitars

Michael Tuttle's background includes lengthy stints with Valley Arts and Don Grosh Guitars, where, among other things, he gained a reputation for his fretwork. As a guitar player for the last 30 years, the transition from a professional musician to guitar builder has been a valuable asset to his company. He built his first guitar in the early 80's and in 1993 started building guitars commercially. After 10 years of honing the art of guitar building working for other organizations it was time to start out on his own. Michael Tuttle Guitars began in 2003. His unique craftsmanship and quality are unparalleled. Once you've played a Tuttle you'll know!..

TV Jones Guitars

TV Jones is well known throughout the world as the premier manufacturer of high-end Filter’tron style pickups. TV Jones pickups are played by many top artists such as Brian Setzer, Billy Gibbons, the Reverend Horton Heat, Chris Cheney of the Living End, Noel Gallagher of Oasis and The Edge from U2. Securing his spot as one of the top vintage pickup makers, Tom “TV” Jones is now committed to producing high quality, hand crafted guitars...

Chad Underwood Guitars

Chad started playing guitar at age 14. He was always fascinated by the blues; old blues, old country and the Fullerton wielding heroes that brought that music to life. Early on he noticed how the guitarists he admired the most tended to have one guitar which they played to death. It was that worn-out thing, the rolled fingerboard edges and between the fret pockets, the checking in the finish, and the dings and dents that turned a new guitar into a GREAT INSTRUMENT full of personality, individuality and vibe. Accordingly, Chad developed the habit of beating the crap out of guitars and this, of course, was the seed that grew into today's master of relicing...

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.