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Orn
Gunnar Örn Sigurdsson has been making guitars since 2000. Based in Reykjavik, Iceland Gunnar makes custom electric guitars drawing on inspiration from Icelandic nature and heritage. Some of his models...
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Barlow
Barlow electric guitars are handmade by Ricky Barlow in Long Island, New York. Made using rare and exotic tonewoods. Barlow attended the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in 2009 and then worked for Paul...
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Oroborus
Oroborus Customs is a one man business run by Tobias Traub in Berlin. Truab makes custom acoustic and electric guitars.Source: Oroborus Customs website (23 May 2019)
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Padalka
Padalka guitars and basses are made by Simon Padalka in his one-man workshop in Krasnodar, Russia. The basic Padalka styles are: Superstrats, Headless Guitars, Ennea Bass, Headless Basses, Sun and Sun...
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Poljakoff
Poljakoff acoustic guitars are handmade in Berlin by Jakob Poljakoff. Poljakoff trained at the International School of Guitarmaking at Newark Sherwood College in England under James Lister, Adrian...
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Red Layer
Red Layer Guitars are made in Amsterdam by Jort Heijen. He founded his own guitar making workshop in 2015 after studying woodworking for 4 years while also attending internships at Adamovic Basses in...
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Ruokangas
Juha Ruokangas opened his first guitar making workshop in 1995 in Finland. In 1997 he launched the first Ruokangas standard model - the Duke. He has since been joined by a small team of luthiers and...
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ROLAND G-808
ROLAND manufactured the G-808 between 1980 and 1984. It was designed as a controller for the Roland GR-300 guitar synthesizer and was the top of the guitar synth controller range offered by Roland.
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Hamstead
Hamstead Soundworks was founded by Peter Hamstead an electronics engineer with a design and development background in avionics and radar. Peter Hamstead got started in music electronics when Jim Bird...
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Bird
Bird Amplifiers were made from the late 1950s until the mid 1960s by Sydney S. Bird and Sons of Poole, Dorset. Sydney Bird's company started out in the 1930s in Enfield making toys and electronics....
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Scott Walker
Scott Walker studied at the Roberto Venn school of lutherie before working at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company alongside luthier Richard Hoover, where he hand carved necks. Custom neck carving became his...
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Sankey
Luthier Michael Sankey of Sankey Guitars has been making and repairing guitars since the mid 1990s. He initially specialised in archtops but now also makes outstanding and original custom electric...
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Shabat
Avishay (Avi) Shabat graduated from the Algranati Guitar Making School in Israel before moving to Los Angeles to apprentice for guitar repair shops and work for a boutique guitar company. Avi spent the...
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Skytop
Skytop guitars and ukuleles are hand made in New Paltz, New York by Eric Weigeshoff. Skytop guitars do not have a traditional sound hole, instead they have a soundport in the side which directs the...
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Soultool
Egon Rauscher has been hand-building electric guitars since the late 1990s under the brand name Soultool. Soultool is based in Buttikon, Switzerland. Initially Rauscher offered two models based on the...
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Stradi (Symphony Guitar Design)
Stradi is the brand name of Marek & Agnieszka DÄ…bek. Marek is Polish luthier, photographer and designer who founded the Stradi brand in 2002 to develop a range of electric upright basses, electric...
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Turnstone
Turnstone Guitar Company was founded by luthier Rosie Heydenrych in Surrey, UK. Heydenrych makes customised fine steel string acoustic guitars by hand. Her Turnstone E-Series uses only English native...
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Overload
Overload Guitars & Basses is an Italian custom instrument maker based in Rome.Source: Overload Custom Guitars & Basses website (8 June 2019)
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Rees (Clive)
Rees Electric Guitars was founded by Clive Rees. Clive produces a range of electric guitars, basses and effects pedals in Cambridgeshire, England.Source: Clive Rees Electric Guitars Website (17 June 2019)
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