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IBANEZ SR885
Production of the Ibanez SR885 began in 1987 and ended in 2003. It was the 5-string version of the SR800. This bass had two jazz bass style active pickups: Ibanez LO-J5 or Ibanez ADX. The bridge was a...
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Anygig
Anygig was established in 2015 as a travel guitar brand. Anygig instruments use full size hardware and have a full size scale length. The body of each Anygig is made with solid maple and they have the...
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DW Stevens
Dennis “Denny” Wayne Stevens was born in Walla Walla, Washington in 1943. After he graduated from high school, he was employed at Sundstrand Aviation and became a manager in Production Control. He...
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Stiles
Gilbert Lee Stiles (1914 - 1994) was born in Independence, West Virginia. Stiles worked in trades associated with timber, ranging from logging to turning millwork. By the late 1950s he’d relocated to...
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Strand
Strand acousitc guitars are made in Jørpeland, Norway by Odd Blikra Egeland and Ørjan Bråtveit Berge. They both enrolled in Norwegian Academy of Instrument Making in Østfold in 2001. The teaching...
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Stratosphere
The Stratosphere Guitar Manufacturing Company was founded by Russell Deaver and his brother Claude, in Springfield, Missouri, They manufactured nearly 200 instruments — marketed primarily to country...
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Striebel
Johannes "Joe" Striebel is a German luthier who apprenticed as a guitar maker at the Munich guitar workshop of Steven's Custom Guitars. Striebel received a national award from the Chamber of Crafts for...
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KAPA
Koob Veneman (1923 - 2010) founded the Kapa brand in 1962 - the Kapa name was derived from the intials of his family. Kapa owned music shops (Veneman Music in Silver Spring, Maryland and later in...
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Sho-Bud
Sho-Bud was founded as a pedal steel guitar company in 1955 by steel players Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons. In 1963 Shot Jackson’s sons, David and Harry, joined the company. In 1963 Buddy Emmons left...
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Kirn
Ron Kirn began making guitars in the late 1970s. He started Ron Kirn Signature Guitars in 1998 and specialises in Fender style electric guitars which he makes by hand in Jackson, Florida.Ron Kirn has...
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Rick Kelly
Kelly Custom Guitars are made by Rick Kelly in New York. Kelly majored in sculpture in college and started making Appalachian dulcimers in the late sixties before switching to electric guitar building...
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Rob Williams
Rob Williams started making guitars as a teenager in 1984 and two years later, at the age of 21, he went to work with John Diggins at Jay Dee Guitars in Birmingham. He worked there for about 18 months...
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Sundberg
David Sundberg makes acoustic guitars in Sweden, under the brand name of Sundberg Guitars. Sundberg's clients include Ryan Adams, Keith Richards, Mark Olson, Ulf Wakenius, Ane Brun, Lars Winnerbäck,...
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SUNN
Oregon-based Sunn Musical Equipment Company was formed in 1965 to provide rock and roll musicians with loud, roadworthy amplification. Sunn amps were used by such '60s bands as Mountain, The Who and...
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Sunrise guitars
The Sunrise Guitar story starts with Patrick Murphy, who received training as a luthier while stationed in Germany and also worked with classical guitar maker Rainer Krempel. In 1971, he opened the...
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Togaman
Togaman GuitarViols is the creation of Jonathan Wilson of San Fernando, California. During the 1990s Wilson experiemented with several designs for a hybrd electric guitar / viola with a fretted neck...
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Sweetwood
The Sweetwood Guitar Company was founded by Glenn Sweetwood in 2002 in San Francisco, CA. It is now based in Soquel, CA. Sweetwood provide design and prototyping services to other companies (Supro,...
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Suprema
Suprema was a house brand of Eaton Department Stores in Canada from the 1930s onwards. The instruments themselves were made by the big American suppliers like Harmony and Kay.Source: Jake Wildwood:...
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Tagima
Tagima Guitars was founded in Brazil the early 1980s by Seizi Tagima. In 1996 Marutec (an electronics and musical instrument distributor) aquired the rights to the Tagima brand name and began to build...
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Grez Guitars
Grez Guitars are made by Barry Grzebik in Petaluma, California. Since the 1990s Grzebik has worked as a Product Designer, Acoustician and Sound Designer: he was the Director of Engineering for Apogee...
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