Patrick Morrissey has been building guitars for nearly 20 years and woodworking his whole life. His father was a craftsman and working along side him as a young boy he learned the skills necessary for fine woodworking. Of course, at the time he was unaware how these skills would serve him so well. In 2001…
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Elegant designs and master craftsmanship delivering richness of tone. Joel Michaud is a Canadian luthier striving to build the finest steel string acoustics available today. Michaud Made guitars are known for their signature powerful clarity and balance across all registers. Aesthetically they combine organic and unique textures with clean and modern lines. The incorporation of…
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Paul Belgrado started professionally in 1989 and works from his home workshop near Brussels. Still in school at the age of 16 inspired by a book, he experimented roughly by building some basic instruments. He started to play in bands and bought a few major brand guitars and basses. Never really satisfied with them, he…
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Philosopher, luthier, songwriter, jeweler. Since 2012 Sergiusz has been building acoustic guitars in his workshop in Warsaw, Poland. He has learned to build instruments (classical guitars and violins) for 13 years in Poznań, under the guidance of his master and friend – Marek Gordziej. To build his guitars, in addition to traditional materials, he uses…
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Vuorensaku Guitars is a one man guitar company from Jyväskylä, Finland, established in 2008. The custom collection he builds is called The T.Family. The passion for reliced and aged designs has been inspired by Finnish nature, furniture, cars from the 1950s and other idioms of that era. The basic idea of the collections is to…
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Dontcho Ivanov is a guitar builder based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He learned to build classical and flamenco guitars in the Spanish tradition with Hugues Lefort and steel-string guitars in the Californian style with Mario Beauregard. From his background as a classical guitarist, Dontcho inherited the obsession of sound. Tone, playability, aesthetics and longevity are…
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Max Spohn began to design and build things in childhood. He soon went on to combine his love for art and wood to build custom guitars. This passion, shaped by focused study at Westsächsische Hochschule Markneukirchen, an internship with Raymond Kraut and many years of personal study and experimentation has made him a professional luthier.…
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The artisian Josep Melo comes from Barcelona, the centre of modern design and the classical guitar. Every year he produces a limited run of handcrafted guitars including archtop, flattop, classical and electric guitars which are specially designed by Josep to suit the needs of the individual player. Each guitar is made with meticulous care and…
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Stevens Custom Guitars was founded in 1993. Werner Kozlik and Stefan Zirnbauer specialise in developing and building acoustic instruments, such as steel string guitars, Irish bouzoukis, ukuleles and customised instruments. Every guitar player has an individual image of ideal sound, playability and visual features in an instrument. Stefan and Werner’s ambition is to transpose all…
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JJ Guitars is an established UK electric guitar manufacturer with an industry reputation for sonic quality. Jeff Guilford comes from a family background of precision engineering; working in his father’s workshop from a very young age. Having received his first guitar at the age of six, by the age of eleven, music and guitar had taken…
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