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Echo d'Artistes
Echo D'Artistes Lutherie is a group of 3 French luthiers: Childéric Aubert, Alexandre Azzola and Benjamin De Oliveira. Based in Fronton. Their guitar range includes archtops, steel string acoustics,...
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Sound Smith
Shannon Smith, founded Sound Smith as a music gear brand. He started out selling guitar capos and gradually added more products to the lineup. Sound Smith now has a range of guitars, ukuleles,...
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Lorden
Lorden is a budget acoustic and classical guitar brand: made in China for distribution in Australia.
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Halcyon
Ed Bond is a luthier based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who makes two lines of high quality acoustic guitars. Halcyon Guitars feature elegant and minimalist construction, honouring the natural...
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Tomas Leal
Tomas Leal Mejias makes classical guitars, bandurrias and mandolins in Casasimarro, Spain. Both Tomas Leal Mejías and his brother José Leal Mejías were trained by Vícente Carrillo Cantos, before his...
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Saburo Nogami
Saburo Nogami was an early apprentice of Masaru Kohno - he joined in 1959, finally leaving the workshop in early 1970s. Nogami is best known for his classical guitars but also made some other types of...
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Miguel Molero
Miguel Ángel Molero makes classical guitars in Getafe, Madrid. He has made guitars in collaboration with Arturo Sanzano who trained at the Ramírez workshop from 1963 to 1984.Source: Guitarras Molero...
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Arturo Sanzano
Arturo Sanzano Moreno makes classical and flamenco guitars in Madrid, Spain. He started in 1963 as an apprentice with José Ramirez III and worked there until 1984, when he opened a workshop in...
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IMPERIAL
The Imperial Musical Instrument Company of Chicago was a 1960s - 1970s US importer and distributor of Crucianelli guitars. These were often branded Imperial Tonemaster.
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Luis Fernandes de Cordoba
Luis Fernandes de Cordoba makes classical and flamenco guitars in the tradition of the European master luthiers, such as Torres, Santos, Esteso, Hauser, Fleta and Bouchet. He got started in luthiery in...
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Manuel Cáceres
Manuel Cáceres Pizarro started work for Ramirez in the 1960's. For over 10 years he worked closely with Arcangel Fernandez. He makes high quality classical and flamenco guitars .
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Fructuoso Zalapa
Fructuoso Zalapa Luna is a maker of fine classical guitars in Morelia, Mexico. He was born in 1961 in Paracho, Mexico, into a family of guitar makers where he began his apprenticeship at age 10. In his...
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Mattingly
R.L. "Bob" Mattingly, was a renowned classical guitar maker in Long Beach, California. Mattingly was in the US navy during the 1960s but still managed to make guitars in his spare time. He also worked...
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Tortorici
Ben Tortorici classical and flamenco guitars in Long Beach, California. Ben Tortorici was already an accomplished woodworker when he was introduced to guitar making in 1978. His skills were refined...
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Tosch
Tosch was a distributor of musical instruments in the 1930s - including those imported from Markneukirchen.Source: Tosch catalog 1934
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John McGuire
John McGuire was raised in a guitar manufacturing enviroment - his father is luthier Mike McGuire of Valley Arts Guitars fame. In 1993 Mike McGuire decided to move John and the rest of his family to...
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Trainwreck
Ken Fischer (1945 - 2006) started Trainwreck Cicuits in 1981 as amplifier repair and modification service in Colonia, New Jersey. By 1982 he had a request by an Atlantic recording artist to build him a...
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Torque
Torque Amps has its origins in a buisness started by Jim Edgeworth in the early seventies in Darlington, UK. Edgeworth built the forerunners of the current TORQUE range of amplification in small...
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Travis Bean TB1000S
The Travis Bean TB1000 came in standard (TB1000S) and artist (TB1000A) versions. The key feature of this guitar is the aluminum neck - which came in 2 width options. The later catalogs refer to this as...
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Travis Bean TB1000A
The Travis Bean TB1000A (Artist) was a fancier version of the TB1000S (Standard). It had a carved book-matched Koa body, block position markers and an optional ebony fingerboard. The Artist model had...
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