Jersey Girl homemade guitars is a guitar brand located in Hokkaido, Japan. It was established in 1991 and combines two luthiers and a guitar strap creator who build 12 to 15 Compositions per year. JGHG guitars and basses are considered to be part of music itself, so they are called “Compositions”. Every instrument has to…
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David Jünger sees himself as a representative of modern guitar making. In 2019 he won the German prize for guitar making with his steelstring model MID-standard. His demand is to blend high quality craftsmanship with excellent materials and design in order to reach the perfect tone. He has specialised in steel string and archtop guitars,…
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Mike Payne has been hand-building electric guitars under the brand “Stone Wolf Guitars” since 2009. Mike has developed a love for building guitars and is always looking for new ways to improve his designs and techniques. Mike’s goal with Stone Wolf Guitars is to design and produce guitars that provide a balance between innovative, interesting…
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For over 20 years Mike Sankey has been building instruments that challenge traditional notions of guitar design and construction. Innovative and iconoclastic, they highlight the contrast between hand building techniques as old as time against cutting-edge manufacturing technologies like 3D printing. With a minimalist design ethos of reducing the guitar to its essentials, the result…
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Matt Proctor was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and makes M-tone Guitars in Portland, Oregon. He designs one-of-a-kind innovative electric instruments that are visually influenced by his many years as a metal and wood sculptor. M-tone Guitars feel good – they’re warm, solid, curved, textured and strong. Matt’s background as a musician is reflected…
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Music is doubtless one of the highest cultural achievements of mankind. Born in 1968, Rainer Tausch grew up in a time when electric guitars were playing a central role in contemporary music. Due to its fantastic versatility, easy handling and the possibility of producing enormous loudness, the electric guitar was an ideally suited tool for…
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The Pagellis, Claudia and Claudio, celebrated their 40 year anniversary in 2019. So not many words to lose here… you should know them by now. The mothers (and fathers…) of invention and style! At the HGGS they will present their new and spectacular 40 year anniversary acoustic guitar along with the mind-blowing «SM» semi-electric guitar.…
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Christian Jablonski has been a master-luthier for 20 years now, living in Bad Goisern, Austria and teaching guitar building at the nearby HTBLA Hallstatt. Outside of his busy, teaching schedule, he constructs wonderful guitars in his workshop. As time is somewhat, limited, the output is small and most instruments are made-to-order. As a journeyman, he…
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Davide Serracini was born in 1978 in Rome, Italy. He graduated from the Civica Scuola di Liuteria di Milano. His philosophy of guitar building takes inspiration from classics and develops a personal line of technology, functionality, simplicity and elegance. His current plans for the steel string guitars are aimed at creating instruments with a high…
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Jacky Walraet acquired his skills at the renowned “Cmb” lutherie school in Belgium, where he subsequently amassed over 25 years of experience as a teacher of steel-string and archtop guitar building. Early on, he had the honour of working for several big names in the jazz world and quickly established a firm reputation. As researcher…
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