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Electrophonic
Joe Floyd founded ElectroPhonic Innovations, and together with Jan Lucas developed several prototypes. In 2016 they launched their first guitar ElectroPhonicâ„¢ Model One as a Kickstarter project....
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Sonora
Sonora acoustic guitars were made in Europe in the early/mid 20th century - possibly related to Busato. These early ones have "Sonora" stamped on the soundboard Circa 2020 the brand was still in use on...
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Otwin
Otwin was established in 1886 in Shilbach, Germany by Franz Otto Windisch (born in 1866). Franz Otto Windisch had previously apprenticed as a violin maker and worked in Markneukirchen for Gläsel &...
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Southwell
Gary Southwell studied Guitar Making at The London College of Furniture after which in 1983 he set up his first workshop in Nottingham. At first he specialised in making historical guitars of the early...
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Sozo
Sozo Guitars was founded in 2004 by Brian Robinson since 2004. Early on he designed and patented the Sozo body style. The guitars & basses are made in Korea and feature Sozo's signature unfinished...
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Malone Guitars
Malone Guitars is a boutique guitar maker and repair workshop, based in Billericay, Essex, UK. Owned and operated by luthier Ian Malone, Malone Guitars hand-build a small number of high quality...
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Geza Burghardt
Geza Burghardt received his Maestro Certificate in 1981 for Fretted and Stringed Instrument Making in Budapest, Hungary before opening his own business. In 1988 he moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1988...
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Michael Lazar began making classical guitars in 1980 using Irving Sloane's book "Classic Guitar Construction". Leo Brouwer tried on of his early instruments, gave some constructive criticism and...
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WASHBURN KC44
The Washburn KC44 was a Chicago Series superstrat electric guitar, similar to the KC40 but with HSH pickup configuration and 22 frets. The KC44 had an alder body with an arched top and back (a little...
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Bensonite
Bensonite Products make custom guitar parts in the USA. Their range includes extra thick neck plates, bridge plates and saddles.Source: Bensonite Products on reverb.com
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Bludotone
BLUDOTONE is a small guitar amplifier company based in Littleton, Colorado. Each amplifier is built by hand by one person start to finish. Bludotone will telephone each customer before building the...
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S.S. Maxwell
The S.S. Maxwell brand was owned by the Targ & Dinner Music Company of Chicago and lasted from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. In the 1930s the S.S. Maxwell instruments were made by Regal and...
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Kawai
Established in 1927 the Japanese Kawai company was best known for its pianos and keyboards. Kawai began making guitars in the 1950s and around 1967 aquired Teisco.
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Jack Spira
Jack Spira is a guitar maker who trained in England in the late 1980s and has been working in Australia since 1991. He makes steel string acoustic guitars and related instruments, such as Irish...
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Splendor
Splendor guitars and amplifiers were made in the 1960s and 1970s by Hitachi Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company - according to details stamped on the neck plates & on the back of the amplifiers.
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Spruce Hill
Spruce Hill Guitars were made in the USA and had aluminum parts. Marty Schulte established the company in 1987 and it lasted at least 20 years.Source: Spruce Hill Guitars website (archived 2006)
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STARFIELD
The Starfield brand was created by Hoshino Industries, the parent company of Ibanez guitars. The brand was first used for Gibson Les Paul copies in the 1970s to early 1980s.Then in the late 1980s the...
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Stansell
Les Stansell makes classical and flamenco guitars and ukuleles in Pistol River, Oregon. Stansell studied under Anthony Huvard at the Northwest School of Instrument Design in, Seattle, from 1978-79, and...
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Stehr
Joel Stehr makes acoustic guitars in Spokane, Washington. Stehr has been making guitars since 2000 and is largely self taught - although he has trained with master luthier Charles Fox.Source: Stehr...
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