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Amazing Poverty- Luthier Fine Custom Guitars
We’re committed to helping you with all your guitar needs with Custom Built Guitars or any Guitar Repairs!! If you’re looking for high quality and personal service involving guitar repairs or a guitar built to your specs, you’ve come to the right place. At Amazing Poverty Custom Guitars and Repairs we’ll give you the attention [...]
Anca Guitars Handmade design-guitars Stettenhofen, Germany
Anca Guitars handmade design-guitars CONTACT: anca guitars (Sorin ANCA) WEBSITE: http://www.facebook.com/anca.guitars ADRESS: http://www.facebook.com/anca.guitars EMAIL: info@anca-guitars.com danke, sorin Anca Guitars
Andy Brauer Luthier/Tech North Hollywood CA
Andy Brauer 5527 Cahuenga Blvd North Hollywood, CA 91607
Balkun Guitars
West Hartford, CT Luthier offering professional set ups and repairs on all makes and types of guitars, basses and other stringed instruments by a certified, well trained Luthier. All set ups/repairs done in a timely manner at reasonable prices for high quality work on your most prized instruments. Repairs offered include, but not limited to: [...]
Bill Duncan Custom Guitars
Bill Duncan Custom Guitars are made by hand in South Florida by Bill himself. The designs are unique spins on legendary guitars. Features that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also designed around the sound and feel necessary for the style of playing and genre of music. Many of the instruments feature exotic tone woods [...]
Burly Guitars- Maker of Custom Guitars w/ The Patented Internal Resonance System
I’m Jeff Ayers, owner of Burly Guitars. Our motto is innovation not imitation. My patented Internal Resonance System is the most dynamic change in guitar body construction in 200 years. My innovation is not modern technology. It’s bronze age technology because it is only wood. Tuning forks or “hammers” within the body absorb and [...]
Carl Metzler Luthier & Guitar Builder.
About Metzler Guitars Metzler Guitars can build a custom guitar to your playing specs or make your existing guitar look and play even better! He specializes in theme guitars, custom paint, graphics, veneer, and more…Metzler Guitars are created to be played. Custom guitars built to match you, your style, and your personality. They are [...]
DJ Parsons Guitar Luthier/Repairs
I am DJ Parsons. I have been repairing guitars for 25+ years and am a Journeyman graduate of the Galloup School of Lutherie. The Boston area is home to me. I was in the 5th graduating class at Xaverian Brothers HS and took a BA in English at the University of Massachusetts. My shop is [...]
Duck’s Custom Guitars
Duck’s Custom Guitars You cannot find a better made store bought guitar than one made by Duck’s Custom Guitars!
Finn Meyer- Violins- St. Paul Minn.
Art is the physical manifestation of the human spirit,” says Finn Meyer in his baritone voice as he lightly chisels away at what is to be the slightly curved top plate of a violin. Originally from Denmark, Meyer belongs to a breed of Old World violin makers (there are only 200 or so in the [...]
Fleck Guitars- AK
Mike Fleck is the authorized Martin repair service center for the south-central Alaska region. He has built a reputation for providing quality repair work and custom built guitars. He has been playing guitar since elementary school, and has also built a reputation as a well respected musician. Mike provides a unique and friendly environment for [...]
Fox Hollow Guitars Don Greenough and Joseph Schneiderhan. – Luthier (Custom Builder) & Repair
Professional Guitar Repair and Luthier – Eugene Oregon Individually Hand Crafted Acoustic & Electric Guitars Fox Hollow Guitars 84737 S. Hideaway Hills Rd. Eugene, OR 97405 Phone #: (541) 345-3267
GUITAR WORX Henry Howard Orangevale, CA – USA
Dedicated to making your instrument the best it can be. Set-Ups, Repairs and Modifications on all brands of electric, acoustic guitars and basses. As well as mandolins, ukuleles and banjos. Gibson, Fender, Paul Reed Smith, Rickenbacker, Martin, Ibanez, etc. (all makes & models) Offering quality and personalized service to the musicians of the greater Sacramento and [...]
Hudge Guitars- Ohio USA
JOHN HUDGEL IS THE OWNER/ OPERATOR/ ARTIST BEHIND HUDGE GUITARS. HE STUDIED SCULPTURE AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY UNDER BRINSLEY TYRELL, FOCUSING ON FIGURATIVE AND ABSTRACT SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. AFTER COLLEGE, JOHN WORKED AT BRONZE SCULPTURE FOUNDRIES FOR 9 YEARS CASTING OTHER ARTISTS WORK INTO BRONZE. JOHN HAS BEEN MAKING HIS OWN SCULPTURES FOR THE [...]
Inventing Shed
We are located at 38 Larcridge Lane, Ashland, MA. The Inventing shed provides musicians from beginners to touring professionals with comprehensive service on guitars, basses, amplifiers, and pedals. From fretwork to custom wiring, modifications, upgrades, repairs, tuning issues, even custom building guitars and basses to your specs. 774.217.1338 http://www.inventingshed.com/ We are a factory [...]
J Heinz Arts – Joliet IL.
Contact John Heinz > If you have a project in mind or need for adjustment or repair, you > can respond to this by email or contact me at 847 722 5067. > luthiery work, custom guitar work, full instruments and > modifications/repairs. I primarily work on electric guitars and bass > guitars now, [...]
J. Backlund Design
If you have a question or comment, need a price quote, want to share your “wish list” of dream-guitar features, or have a rant or rave about the instruments or the website, we want to hear from you. Contact us via postal mail, phone or e-mail at: J. Backlund Design 100 Cherokee Boulevard, Suite 123 [...]
JC’s Guitar Shop
Jim Colangelo (JC) is a luthier and amplification technician. His shop is located north of Boston, in Beverly, Massachusetts. Jim works by appointment with musicians from all over the world. In addition to my work as a builder and technician, Jim is also an avid player, and has been for most of his life.
JET Guitars Jeffrey Earl -Luthier
Each electric guitar made here is completely handcrafted by a single Luthier, resulting in quality you must see, feel and hear to believe. I strive for true style integrated with, not merely sacrificed to, incredible playability, balance, and tone.
Judge Guitars
Got a few spare guitar parts or old banged up guitar and don’t know what to do with it? I can take your old beat-up guitar and turn it into something new for you. Let Judge Guitars bring that old junker sitting in the closet to life again, and even make it your “go-to” ax…. [...]
Lichty Guitars Custom Instrument Shop
Lichty Guitars is a one-man custom instrument shop. North Carolina luthier Jay Lichty builds custom handmade acoustic guitars and ukuleles that are played and praised by musicians from Australia to Nashville. He works with a wide variety of premium domestic and exotic woods and because there is no “standard off-the-shelf” Lichty design, no two are [...]
Livoti Custom Guitars / The Guitar E.R. Wantagh, Long Island NY
Livoti Custom Guitars / The Guitar E.R. Wantagh, Long Island NY Guitar Set ups, repairs, pickup installation, custom work. Acoustic & Electric guitars & basses. Fast turnaround. Guitar assembly. Custom guitars also. Now that you have purchased that beautiful PRS, that killer Martin, that wild Parker, your precious Fender … Gibson … Taylor … what [...]
Luthiers & Techs. We Want Your Skills Posted Here!
Just send info@axvault.com a list of your skills and post your guitars if you make them. 1) What do you service & sell 2) Are you manufacture certified? For what Brands? 3.) Contact information with a picture, web links etc. That’s it. Oh we will make sure your legit. We do not endorse or rate [...]
Mouradian Guitar
Mouradian Guitar Co has been in the business of building and servicing electric and acoustic guitars and basses since 1983. We specialize in repairing, restoring, “hot-rodding, and custom building. Mouradian Guitar has recently expanded to selling guitars, basses and amplifiers as well as supplies for the guitar or bass player.
Occhineri Guitars- Connecticut USA
Welcome to Occhineri Guitars. High quality, handmade, collectable electric guitars that play and sound as good as they look. You will find gorgeous and exotic guitars on this site all hand-crafted by skilled guitar maker Peter A. Occhineri at our shop in Connecticut. Each guitar is created individually (about three a month) with great attention [...]
Raymond Kraut Guitars
I build my guitars in an atypical fashion. Never reproducing the same inlay design twice, I customize each instrument (even on my most basic model) to give every guitar it’s own aesthetic individuality. I use only the finest tone woods available allowing me to create striking and vocal instruments. Utilizing my luthiery education, I have [...]
Sommatone Custom Hand-wired Amps and Luthiery
At Sommatone Amplification we focus on tone with an unrelenting passion for detail. We’ve created our line of custom hand-wired boutique amplifiers for the player who wants the ultimate sound experience – our tone and build quality are unparalleled. sommatone.com myspace.com/sommatone facebook.com/sommatone twitter.com/sommatone youtube.com/sommatone wiser-time.com 908.955.7299
Spirit Guitar USA- Ada Michigan
Spirit Guitar USA was founded in 2011 by Chris Nunez. Chris is a veteran recording artist, songwriter and musician. As a successful entrepreneur and business executive, computer programmer and mechanical engineer with nine US patents, he is well suited to oversee Spirit Guitar USA. Chris has been playing guitar for over 25 years and started [...]
Thorell Guitars Custom Luthier
! Thorell guitars are hand built by Ryan Thorell in a one man shop in Cache Valley, Utah. Each guitar is as individual as the customers we work with. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
Tim Reede Custom Guitars
Tim Reede Custom Guitars Maker of flattop acoustic, archtop, electric guitars and basses, and a new acoustic/electric guitar called the Librada. I am a graduate of the Red Wing program for guitar repair and construction and I have been a professional craftsman for over sixteen years. Only top quality materials and time honored methods [...]
Twisted Fiddles Custom Guitars and Repair Leander Texas USA
Professional Services 16302 Kicking Bird Drive, Leander, TX. 1 512.789.8866Always open
Whitsett Guitar Works
My name is Bill Whitsett, and I’ve owned and operated the Whitsett Guitar Works in the Boston area since 1999. My objective is to provide customers in New England with complete and quality guitar repair service. I know how difficult it can be to find a Guitar Repair Technician that you trust with your favorite [...]







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