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Guitars
- 660 Guitars, aluminum
- Abasi Guitars, by Tosin Abasi
- AC Guitars, UK
- AcaciaGuitars, Carlsbad, CA
- Aeolus Instruments, Dale E. Foye is a world famous luthier
- Albert-Mueller Guitars, German, doubleneck acoustics
- Alembic, handcrafted basses & guitars
- Alexander James Guitars, Canada
- Alhambra, Spain
- Alika Ukeleles, by Alexander Johnson, 596 Auwaiolimu St, Honolulu, HI 96813, (808)526-2812
- Richard C. Allen
- R.C. "Dick" Allen, 2801 New Deal Road, El Monte, CA 91733, (626)442-8806
- hollowbody guitar luthier, acoustic/jazz/jazz electric, banjo, mandolin, bass. Serious $$$ and only. A few Atlantic/WB artists use his guitars.
- Richard C. Allen, RIP 3-2-2014
- Rob Allen Guitars, Gardena, CA
- Allen Eden Guitars, El Monte, CA
- Alleva Coppolo, NY, by Jimmy Coppolo
- Alloy Guitars, kits, made in Portland, OR
- Alvarez Guitars
- Alumisonic Guitars, Aluminum Guitars
- American Archtop by Dale Unger, 6 + 7 string archtops
- AMI Guitars
- Andrew White Guitars
- Antonio Sanchez Guitars, Spain, classical
- Amp Shop & Bass Exchange, Gary, the owner of Amp Shop makes great custom guitars
- Steve Andersen Archtop Guitars
- check out his oval soundhole archtops
- Tom Anderson Guitarworks
- makes great custom Fender-style guitars. Serious $$$ and only. They are outrageously expensive, but they represent what the real cost a 50's and 60's Fender would be if they were made exactly the same way today. They are some of the best next to John Suhr Guitars.
Contact him at Tom Anderson
- Andy Manson Guitars, Portugal
- Antoria Guitars, UK, Korea
- Aria Guitars,
- once considered to be imported junk from Japan, this company has improved their guitars and raised their prices - but are still less overpriced than USA made Gibsons. They now make boutique models such as the Sinsonido; their jazz guitars have been used by famous jazz guitarists Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, Ike Isaacs, Jim Mullen, Larry Coryell
- Aristides Instruments, Netherlands
- Armas Guitars, Italy
- Artinger Guitar by Matt Artinger
- Ashbory Bass
- Asher Guitars Venice, CA, Bill Asher sells his custom made guitars
- Asken Guitars, Los Angeles, CA
- Atelierz, UK, Martin clones
- Atlansia, Japan, weird designs by Nobuaki Hayashi
- Atelierz, Japan
- Audio Asylum Guitars
- Austin Guitars
- Avalon Guitars
- Anuenue Guitars, Taiwan
- Avian Guitars
- AxCentTuning Self-Tuning Guitars
- guitars that tune themselves, formerly TransPerformance Self-Tuning Guitars
- AXL Amps, AXL
- Ayers Guitar, Taiwan, handmade
- Ayers Guitar, Salt Lake City, UT
- Ayers Guitar, Scottsdale, AZ
- Jeff Babicz Guitars, string anchors, vertically adjustable neck, torque reducing split bridge
- Bad Cat Instruments
- Gene Baker "b3" guitars, Tehachapi, CA, Gene Baker is a former custom shop bulder for Gibson and Fender
- Baker Guitars, former Fender and Gibson Custom Shop builder, after he started Baker Guitars, former Fender endorcee Robben Ford started to endorce Baker guitars instead, Baker Guitars
- Ballurio Guitars
- Bartlett Guitars
- Bear Creek Guitars
- Bear Creek Guitars
- Beauregard Guitars, Canada
- Benavente Guitars by Chris Benavente
- Berrick Guitars
- Beyond the Trees Guitars, Fred Carlson, Sympitar
- Victor Baker
- Barnes and Mullins, Admira, Brunswick, Faith, Gould, Jose Ferrer
- Bassculture, Germany
- Basslab, German
- B.C. Rich Guitars
- BC Kingston, Canada
- Ken Bebensee, North San Juan, CA
- Bee Basses
- Bell Custom Guitars
- BellTone Guitars
- Belman Guitars
- Beltona Guitars, metal resonator guitars
- Benavente Guitars, Robert Benedetto himself is a famous jazz guitarist, March of 1999, Benedetto signed a Design & Consulting Agreement with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation to redesign Guild Guitar's popular Artist Award & Stuart models and to have Benedetto models made at the Fender Custom Shop. He makes guitars for John Pizzarelli
- Roger Benedict Guitars
- Bennett Music Labs, Bruce Bennett Music Labs, build custom guitars with the brand name of "Bennett" on them, also Ghost builds for "Judah Customs", "J.Backlund Design" guitars, and "Armstrong" guitars
- Bennett Guitars, Greg Bennett Guitars, made by Samick
- Bergeron Guitars by Barry Bergeron
- Paulino Bernabe Guitars, Fred Carlson, played by Alex De Grassi and Todd Green including the amazing "Guitarangi da Gamba", "Sympitar", and "Nylon-String Double-Neck Guitar", must see and hear masterpeice guitars
- Bigsby Guitars
- Big Lou Wide Nut Guitar
- Bilt Guitars
- BirdSong Guitars, short scale, lightweight bass and guitar
- Blade Guitars, Australia, clear pickguards, by Gary Levinson
- Mark Blanchard Guitars, Los Gatos, CA
- Blue Berry Guitars, acoustics, carved tops
- Blueridge Guitars, Malaysia, UK dist
- Bluesman Vintage
- Bone Guitars
- Born Guitars, custom designer
- Bourgeois Guitars, Dana Bourgeois, archtops, flatops, acoustics
- Pantheon Guitars
- John Bolin Guitars, makes guitars for ZZ Top
- BootLegger Guitars, Los Angeles, CA
- BootLegger Guitars on Gbase
- Roger Borys Guitars
- expensive high-end professional jazz guitars are custom made by this guy who keeps getting a new website and address every few years
- Roger Borys Guitars
- Borys Guitars, 420 Pine St, Burlington, VT 05401
- Roger Borys, 16 Falls Rd #B8, Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-1461
- Roger Borys, 58 Shelburne Shopping Park, Shelburne, VT 05482, (802) 985-1461
- Bozo Podunavac Guitars
- BP Rose Guitars, Japan
- Keith Brawley Guitars
- Breedlove Guitar
- Brian May Guitars, Red Special copies by Guild, Burns, Guyton, and others
- Brian Monty Guitars, Canada, Gibson clones
- Brook Guitars
- Browns Guitar Factory
- Brubaker Guitars, handmade guitars used by Britney Spears' touring musicians Skip Dorsey and Freddie Mollings
- Bunker Guitars, by Dave Bunker
- AW Shadows Design Guitars
- curved, carved wood bodies
- Boulder Creek Guitars, Morgan Hill, CA, acoustics withou soundholes
- Brunner Guitars, Switzerland, foldable guitars
- Burrell Guitars
- BurreTone Guitars, Greece, aluminum guitars
- Burns Guitars
- high quality, custom Brian May (of the rock group Queen) Red Special pickups
- Burny Guitars, Japanese Gibson clones
- Buscarino Guitars by John Buscarino, used by jazz guitarist Corey Christiansen
- Byers Guitars by Gregory Byers, played by David Russell and David Tanenbaum
- CA Guitars by Bob Minner, fiberglass acoustic guitars like Rainsong
- California Guitars, Belmont, CA
- Callaham Guitars, handmade vintage reproduction guitars
- Callow Hill Bass
- Campbell American Guitars, Westwood, MA
- Mark Campellone Archtop Guitars
- Candelas
- 2724 Cesar Chavez Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033, (323)261-2011
- Tomas and Manuel Candelas, these makers of classical, mariachi, and flamenco guitars have been featured in many magazines and tv programs. Audition them at Candelas
- Cardinal Instruments
- Carlson Guitars, finished in the USA
- John Carruthers Guitars
- 4700 Calle Carga, Camarillo, CA 93012, (805)482-9696
- formely worked with Leo Fender at Fender Guitars and at MusicMan Guitars and helped design the Saber and Stingray.
- He also teaches guitar building at The Guitar Craft Academy
- Case Guitars, by Jon Case, UK
- C.B. Hill Guitars, Huntington Beach, CA, C.B. Hill is a world famous archtop jazz guitar luthier
- Chris Celinder Basses, Denmark
- Chafin Custom Guitars
- Bill Chapin Guitars, also sells boutique amps at his store
- Chapman Guitars, UK
- Charvel Guitars, owned by Fender
- Eric Christman Guitars
- Chrysalis Guitar, inflatable acoustic/electric
- Chubtone Guitars, CA
- Citron Enterprises, NY
- Ed Clark Guitars
- Clevinger electric upright bass
- Codella Guitars, San Francisco, CA
- Cole Clark Guitars, Australia, Canada, nice wood look
- Collings Guitars
- CMGuitars
- Bill Comins Guitars
- Composite Acoustics Guitars
- clones of Rainsong Guitars
- Cook Guitars, Darrell Cook Guitars
- Conklin Guitars and Basses, Groove Tools
- Conti Guitars
- Copley Guitars
- Coppolo Guitars, Alleva-Coppolo Guitars by Jimmy Coppolo
- Cordoba Music Group, Santa Monica, CA
- Crafter Guitars
- Crimson Guitars, UK, by Ben Crowe
- Crystal Guitars, clear plastic
- Kevin Cronin Archtop Guitars
- Crook Custom Guitars
- Joseph Curtin Studios, violins
- Daisy Rock Guitars aka Schecter Guitar
- Matthias Dammann, German, classical guitars used by David Russell, Manuel Barrueco and Scott Tennant
- Dammann Instruments
- Dana B. Goods is the exclusive USA distributor for Warwick basses, Framus guitars, Humfrees
- D'Angelico Guitars, Japan, Indonesia, China, by Mr. Shino; the ones made by John D'Angelico were actually more popular for their looks than their sound; customers didn't actually play them because they were so expensive, nobody wanted to scratch and dent them thereby ruining their outrageously overinflated value; these were collected by wealthy collectors, not actual musicians, for investment purposes just like Faberge eggs; who knows what they actually sounded like, you'll never hear one recorded or on any stage because everyone is too afraid to hold $50,000+ guitars; all the original John D'Angelico guitars are safely locked away in private collections behind glass cases - these "instruments" will never be played and handled by actual people, much less by musicians who might actually want to play them; the only authorized D'Angelico replicas made in the USA are by Michael Lewis of Grass Valley, CA
- DBZ Guitars
- Dantzig Guitars by Jol Dantzig
- Dean Guitars, good quality Korean made guitars, just replace the pickups with USA boutique pickups and you'll have a great players' guitar. They sell a few USA made guitars that are great.
- Dean Zelinskys
- Deering Banjos
- 6-string banjos for guitar players
- de Erro Guitars by W. Martin Miranda, formerly of Valley Arts USA
- DeGennaro Guitars
- DeJonge Guitars, Canada, classical, Double Cutaway acoustics
- Dell'Arte Instruments, Santee, CA
- makes the kind of guitars Django used to play, Maccaferri Guitars and Selmer Guitars, see also Michael Dunn Guitars, David J. Hodson guitars, and Maurice Dupont guitars
- DeMars Guitars
- Detemple Guitars, exceptional hand made guitars from Sherman Oaks, CA
- DeVillain Guitars, Sweden, foldable guitars
- Devon Guitars, actually basses, not guitars, that use the optical Lightwave Systems pickups
- Dewey Decibel Guitars, Dewey Decibel Flipout guitars
- Dillion, Korean, good clones of other guitars, makers of clear bodied guitars, Brian May guitars, Moserite clones
- Dingwall Guitars, Canada, fanned frets, played by Lee Sklar
- Dion Guitars, Canada, by Dion James, acoustic guitars
- DiPinto Guitars
- DNA Guitar Company, Auburn, CA
- Dodge Guitars, convertable guitars with swappable pickups
- DeVoe Guitars by Lester DeVoe, Nipomo, CA
- Michael Dolan Custom Guitars
- Doolin Guitars, exotic acoustic designs, harp guitars played by Muriel Anderson
- D'Pergo Custom Guitars, nice Fender clones
- Dragonfly Guitars, Dan Richter
- Joe Dragony Guitars, Carmichael, CA
- Thomas Dramm Guitars, guitars played with a bow
- Driskill Guitars
- Dunable Guitars, Los Angeles, CA
- Duesenberg, German, Duesenberg
- Guitares Maurice Dupont
- makes the kind of guitars Django used to play, Maccaferri Guitars and Selmer Guitars, see also Dell'Arte Instruments and Michael Dunn Guitars, David J. Hodson guitars, luthier Paul Hostetter sells them
- Eastman Guitars, China, these are high quality handmade guitars that look and sound great. in the future, President Qian Ni is going to known as the Chinese Fender/Gibson/Martin
- Eastwood Guitars
- Brian Eastwood Guitars, his Distortocaster is the weirdest guitar
- EchoPark Guitars, Los Angeles, CA, former G&L employee, make Leo Fender prototypes
- EER Custom Guitars
- Eichelbaum Guitars by David Eichelbaum
- William Eaton, current director of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix, Arizona
- Patrick James Eggle Guitars, UK
- EKO Guitars, Italy
- Eleca
- Electra Guitar
- Electric Babes, Austria
- ElectroPhonic Innovations, Inglewood, CA
- Elliott Guitars by Jeffrey R. Elliott, 8-string classical guitars
- Elliott Guitars by Andy Elliott
- Elrick Bass Guitars
- Ellsberry Guitars, Huntington Beach, CA
- Emerald Guitars
- Enke Designs Guitars, David Enke

ErnieBall MusicMan Guitars, ErnieBall
- They have a cool website that lets you design guitars on screen. MusicMan was the company Leo Fender designed guitars for 10 years after he sold Fender Guitars to CBS. Leo Fender and John Carruthers designed evolved guitars, basses, and amps, most notably the Saber and Stingray. After Leo Fender sold MusicMan to Ernie Ball, Ernie Ball dropped all of Leo Fender's guitar designs; only the Stinray bass guitar remains the way Leo Fender designed it. John Carruthers started his own guitar shop in Venice, CA (see links above for info). Leo Fender went onto found G&L guitars. MusicMan guitar amps made while Leo Fender worked there were actually designed by ex-employees of the first Fender guitar company. EarnieBall sells licensed Music Man-style guitar and basses as OLP Guitars
- Ergon Guitars, Portugal
- Erlewine Guitars
- ESP Guitars, ESP Guitars Japan,also make LTD Guitars, are great clones
- Eugen Guitars, from Norway
- Faith Guitars, UK
- Fano Guitars, Dennis Fano, played by the band XTC, now relic versions available
- F Bass
- Farnell Guitars, Pomona, CA
- Falbo Guitars
- Buzz Feiten
- 901 S Hudson Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90019-1814 (213)937-0820
- you've got to see these for yourself.
- Fender Guitars
- Fender on Youtube
- Fender Digital, 1575 North Gower Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90028
- Fender Custom Shop
- Fender Custom Shop Australia
- Squier Guitars, China, Indonesia
- Fender Japan
- Fender Japan - Youtube
- Fender Japan - Dates,
Fender Japan dealer Ishibashi,
Fuji Gen-Gakki, Fuji Gen-Gakki, the same company builds Ibanez guitars
- A Brief History of Leo Fender
- A History of Fender's Fabulous Telecaster
- Fender's Stole Bigsby's Design
- How Fender Worked - truth about Fender
- CNC Magazine - Fender Custom Shop, Fender Custom Shop guitars are made by CNC machines just like their regular guitars, there is no justification for their outrageous "Custom Shop" prices; their "waiting period" is a crock considering how their machines can make a made to order guitar in hours
- John English
- Fender Factory Tour USA
- Fender Mexico Factory
- Stratocaster Mexican compared to American Stratocaster
- Fender's Radio Service-Ellingson, Inc.
- Site of Leo Fender's Original Factory
- Site of Leo Fender's Radio Service Shop
- Overview of collecting vintage Fender guitars, basses and amps
- Inside a 1954 Fender Stratocaster
- Fender Vintage Guitar Detail Pictures
- Vince Cunetto Guitars, made the first Relic
- Strat-Central
- Strat-Central Other Fenders
- Pamelina Hovnatanian, artist for Fender Custom Shop "art guitars" who has never actually been to the Fender factory
- Fender Guitar Comparisons & Woods
- EMG Pickups, Santa Rosa, CA, Rob Turner designs pickups for Fender, PRS, and Steinberger too. Bill Turner (who also is behind the LSR name and nut design on the Clapton guitar and the brother of EMG's Rob Turner) designed the Vintage Noiseless pickups
- Y Music School, formerly the The Fender Museum which closed
- Fernandes Guitars, Japan
- Fidelity Guitars, UK
- Fibenare Guitars, Spain
- First Act Guitars, Wal Mart guitars
- Paul Fischer Guitars, UK, classical guitars
- Flaxwood Guitars, Finland
- Fleishman Instruments, Harry Fleishman
- Flipout Guitar, backwards
- Fodera Guitars, beautiful guitars and basses, exotic woods
- Allan Fontanilla Guitar Maker, San Francisco, CA
- Fool-Audio Guitars
- Joe Forest Guitars, Japan
- Peter Forrester, UK luthier of Citterns used by Paul O'Dette
- Chris Forshage Guitars
- Charles Fox Guitars
- Frame Works Guitars, look like Traveler Guitars and SoloEtte Guitars
- Framus Guitars
- Francisco Navarro, classical and flamenco
- Frankinstein Guitar Works, Canada
- Frank Brothers Guitars, Canada
- Frank Stallone Guitars
- Fraser Guitars, UK, relics
- Fret-King Guitars
- Fretlight Guitars, formerly OptekMusic Guitars
- guitars that teach you how to play the guitar, actually imported Samick guitars with their unique lighted fretboard, also called Fretlight Guitars, OptekMusic Guitars
- Fritz Brothers Guitars
- George Furlanetto Guitars, Hammertone Electric Mandolin/ Guitar
- Fylde Guitars, UK
- Gadow Guitars

G&L Guitars
- Sites to check out for info
G&L Guitars on Facebook
G&L Guitars Custom Shop on Facebook
GuitarsByLeo.com a G&L fan site with pictures, GuitarsByLeo.com FAQ
FreeNote - MicroTones Guitars, Microtonal G&L Guitars
G&L Guitars Generator, design your guitar
Sweetwater G&L Guitars Webpage
G&L Skyhawk, my dream guitar, I wish BBE still made G&L guitars like this
Fender Musicmaster/Duo-Sonic Gallery
Greg Gagliano's G&L website another G&L fan site with pictures by Greg Gagliano, writer for 20TH CENTURY GUITAR magazine, he has info on the post-BBE changes and pickup origins
Schaller, pre-BBE maker of G&L pickups and tuners
Merlin 5 Products, 2572 E Fender #B, Fullerton, CA 92831, (714)879-7508,
has provided the music industry's leading guitar builders with the finest hardware made. Fender, Jackson, Rickenbacker, G&L, Yamaha, and countless other small builders have benefited from his vast experience in the machining world. He has worked with the best, Grover Jackson, Gary Kahler, and Wayne Charvel just to name a few. Bill Gerien's company makes hardware and CNC products and tooling for G&L guitars.
Chandler Guitar Pickguards, Paul and Adrian Chandler Guitar Pickguards, G&L pickguards
SwitchCraft, G&L jacks
Kent Armstrong Pickups
Rio Grande Pickups makes replacements for G&L guitars, made in USA
Lollar Guitars Pickups makes replacements for G&L guitars, made in USA
Bryan Galloup's Guitar Repair and Construction School
Bryan Galloup is an extraordinarily skillful guitar restoration luthier and custom guitar builder and has been featured in many guitar magazines.
Spalt Instruments, by Michael S. Spalt, Austria
Gary Kramer Guitars, El Segundo, CA, fretless guitars
GB Guitars, UK, Goodfellow Basses, LEDs on fretboard
Geiger Guitars, by Mark Geiger, Carmel, CA
Giannini Guitars, Brazil
Gibson Guitars
the real Gibson guitars made by the same people who made the early ones in the same factory with the same equipment are now sold as "Heritage Guitars" (see link below for "Heritage Guitars").
Former Gibson custom shop builder Gene Baker is selling guitars under his own name (see link above for "Gene Baker").
Former Gibson custom shop builder Roger Giffin is selling guitars under his own name (see link below for "Giffin Guitars").
Everybody complains about how overpriced Gibson guitars are and how they've declined in quality.
Some people consider Tokai Love Rock guitars to be superior to Gibson USA guitars.
Get a "Heritage Guitar" or "Gene Baker" or "Giffin Guitar" for the real thing.
Gibson TV on Youtube
Garrison Guitars, new bracing for acoustics
Roger Giffin Guitars
former head of Gibson West Coast Custom Shop in Los Angeles for 5 years, co-owner of R&B Instrument Services at Guitar Center in Hollywood, owner of Giffin Guitars London in England for 25 years. He has lots of big-name clients.
Gigliotti Guitars
Gilbert Guitars, Mark Gilbert Guitars, exotic woods
Gil Yaron Guitars, Israel
Gittler Instruments
Givson Guitars, India
Glendale Guitars, Fender clones and parts
GJ2 Guitars, Laguna Hills, CA, Grover Jackson
Glaser Instruments, 434 E Iris Dr, Nashville, TN 37204, (615) 298-1139
Godin Guitars, Canada, owned by Lasido, assembled in America
Gold Caster, Beverly Hills, CA
GoldFish Guitars
Gold Tone, banjos and 6 string Banjitars
James Goodall Guitars
Gordon-Smith Guitars, UK, handcrafted guitars made in England
Fabrice Gougi Guitars, France, electrodynamic guitars
GMW Guitarworks, GM Precision Products Inc., Lee Garver's Empire Guitars, custom refinishing, Glendora, CA
Grainger Guitars, UK
Greci Guitars
Gretsch, Korea, China
Greenfield Guitars, Canada, fanned fret
Greenwich Village Custom Guitars, by Jonathan Wilson, vintage guitar reproductions
Greven Guitars, John Greven
Grez Guitars, Barry Grzebik, Petaluma, CA
Alan Gittler Guitars, Alan Gittler
Don Grosh Guitars
one of the best custom guitar builders in the world, unfortunately he uses "bathtub" routs in his guitars with pickguards
Grubisa Guitars by Frank Grubisa, Australia
Gruen Acoustic Guitars
Gus Guitars
GVox Guitars
guitars that teach you how to play the guitar, actually Fender guitars with "GVox" pickups installed, please email me if you have any GVox software!
Guild Guitars, now owned by Cordoba Music Group
Guilford Guitars
Gustavsson Guitars, Sweden, Johan Gustavsson's Handmade Electric Guitars
Guyton Guitars
Hahl Guitars, Germany, Bireli Lagrene signature model
Halo Custom Guitars, Cupertino, CA, custom guitar generator website
Hammond Guitars
Henner Hagenlocher Guitars
Henner Hagenlocher Guitars, Granada Guitars
Hagstrom Guitars, sell also Albin Hagstrom Guitars
Albin Hagstrom Guitars, sell also Hagstrom UK Guitars
Hagstrom Guitars, Agoura Hills, CA
Hamer Guitars, good USA guitars, they sell Korean guitars under their "Slammer" brand. They make a 12-sting bass
Handlebar Guitars, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, relic clones
Hargreaves Guitars, Jay T. Hargreaves, worked with Richard Schneider and Dr. Michael Kasha
Harmony Guitars
Hartung Guitars, Germany
Hauser Guitars, Germany, famous classical guitars used by Andres Segovia
Haze Guitars, Gerry Hayes
HenmanBevilacqua Guitars, Hollywood, CA
Herron Guitars, Santa Barbara, CA
Hoffman Guitars
Homer T Guitars, Redondo Beach, CA, relics by Scott "Homer T" Gerber
Hopf Gitarren, Germany, classical
Nik Huber Guitars
Italia Guitars, guitars that look like those old (cheap when they were made) guitars complete with metalflake finishes. The advantage here is that they are modern guitars without the maintenance problems that you often see in their ancestors.
Ibanez Guitars, Japanese guitar company that makes expensive signature models for Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Pat Metheney, George Benson, John Scofield
Jerry Jones Guitars
US made quality vintage reproductions, sitar, Danelectro
Hahl Guitars, Germany
Hallmark Guitars, played by Deke Dickerson
Hamiltone Guitars, Hamiltone Guitars, Jim Hamilton made Stevie Ray Vaughn's "main" guitar
Hanika, Germany
Harley Benton, guitars and kits, very low prices
Harley Benton on Reverb
Sandi Harris & Stephen Barber, UK luthier of Lutes and Orpharions used by Paul O'Dette
Harry's Co. Dragonfly Guitars, Japanese guitars with baritone necks, by Harry
Haywire Custom Guitars
Heritage Guitar, former Gibson guitar factory workers
Conde Hermanos Guitars
Hess Guitars by Carson Hess, relic
Kenny Hill Guitars, classical guitars, guitar building class
Hill Custom Guitars
Hoeg Guitars, Rich Hoeg, San Francisco, CA
Hofner, Germany
Hohner, played by Prince
Holst, archtops
Hopkins Guitars, Canada
M. Horabe Guitars
Howell And Forsyth, San Jose, CA
Hosco Guitars, Japan
Human Base, German
Thomas Humphrey Guitars, Thomas Humphrey died in 4/08
Hutchins Guitars, UK
Hybrid-Guitars
Imperial Guitars, Oxnard, CA, lap steel, resonator
IVY Guitars, Stephen Cohen, custom guitars
Jacaranda Guitars, Italy
Jackson Guitars
Paul Jacobson, classical guitars
Jaen Guitarras, Spain
James Einolf Guitars, makes Gibson 1926 L-0 and L-1 guitars, played by Robert Johnson
Jammy Guitars, compact, traverly, MIDI guitars
Jaros Guitars
Jasper Guitars Square Neck Resonator Guitars
JayDee Guitars, UK, played by Jaco Pastorius
J Backlund Guitars
Jeffrey Yong Guitars, Malaysia
Jennings Guitars, Camarillo, CA, by Chad Jennings
Peter Jay Huiras, Violin & Guitar Maker
William Paul Jarowsky Timeless Timber Guitars
Jericho Guitars
JJ Guitars, UK
Thomas Vincent Jones, TV Jones, Gretsch pickups, Ray Butts pickups
John Hornby Skewes, UK, makes and distributes imported instruments including the brands: Encore, Vintage, Vintage Metal Axxe, Falcon, Manuel Rodriguez UK, Palma, Santos Martinez. These Asian imported guitars are perfect for modifying with upgraded aftermarket pickups and parts. Vintage Guitars are clones of Gibsons, PRS, Peavey, Jacksons, Fender, MusicMan guitars and basses.
Johnson's Extremely Strange Musical Instrument Co., Burbank, CA 91755
John Jordan Guitars, Concord, CA
John Cruz Custom Guitars, former head of Fender Custom Shop
Kala Brand, Petaluma, CA
Jon Kammerer Guitars, rounded acoustic guitars
J.S. Bogdanovich Guitars
Kasha Guitar, bracing designed by Dr. Michael Kasha
Kay Guitars
Kauer Guitars, Elk Grove, CA
Kaufman Electric Guitars, San Diego, CA, KxK guitars, former Carvin employees
Michael Keller Guitars
Michael Kelly Guitars
Rick Kelly Guitars, pine wood guitars, reclaimed lumber
Ken Parker Archtops
Kiesel Guitars, formerly Carvin
Escondido, CA, the best custom guitars at mass production guitar prices
Kiesel Guitars and Basses in stock
Carvin Museum
Carvin Factory Tour
Kiesel Guitars Gallery
Kiesel Guitars Archive
Frank Gambale - Carvin Guitars signature FG1 Guitar - How it's Made on Youtube
Killer Guitars, Japan
Alma Guitar by Kim Hee Hong, Korea
Koll Guitars, by Saul Koll
Kozm Guitars
Kubicki, Philip Kubicki, played by Duran Duran's John Taylor
Kinal Guitars, Canada, handmade guitars and basses
JB Guitars by Joe Bochar
Kiso Guitars, Japan
Steve Klein Guitars
he sells other luthiers' guitars too, his acoustics and electrics are very good, his Transperformance-Klein Guitar is the first self-tuning acoustic guitar
K'z Guitar Works - Japan, Brian May replicas
Jersey Girl Guitars by Kazu Goto and Akiko Oda, Japan
Johnson, China
K-Line Guitars by Chris Kroenlein, relic guitars
Ken'z Guitarz
Ron Kirn Guitars
Klepper Guitars
Knut-Koupee Enterprises, by David Rusan and Barry Haugen
John Knutson Luthiery, Forestville, CA
Kohno and Sakurai Guitars, Japan, Masaru Kohno, Masaki Sakurai, classical
Koll Guitars, Saul Koll Guitars
Kopecky Guitars, San Diego, CA, importers of Caro & Topete Guitars
Caro & Topet Guitars
Kremona Guitars, Bulgaria, outstanding classical guitars
Kritz Guitars, check out their Stradovarius Archtop
Kumano Guitars, Japan
Mark Lacey Guitars
J. K. Lado Guitars
Legator Guitars, Sun Valley, CA
LAG Guitars, French made, LAG Guitars
LA Guitar Factory, luthiers Ari Lehtela and Luke Lukuer
Lakland Bass
Yuri Landman Guitars, custom art guitars
Landola Guitars
Langcaster Guitars, Joh Lang, Kauri wood body, the Kauri tree is the oldest and tallest tree in New Zealand
Langejans Guitars, Delwyn J. Langejans Guitars
endorced by guitar legends Phil Keaggy and Earl Klugh, his custom double developed with Thom Bresh is a weird guitar that has a steel stringed guitar one one side and a nylon classical guitar on the other with custom case, also makes harp guitar
Languedoc Guitars, Phish guitars
LapDancer Guitars by Loni Specter
La Patrie Guitars, Canada, acoustic guitars
Chris Larkin Custom Guitars
LaRose Guitars
Larrivee Guitars, Oxnard, CA
John Larsen Guitars
Richard Larsen Guitars
William Laskin Guitars, Canada
Launhardt Guitars, Germany
Lava Guitars, Lithuania
H. G. Leach Guitars, played by Roy Clark
Legendary Gear
Legend Guitars, Canada
Lehmann Strings, Bernie Lehmann, Selmer/Maccaferri guitars, archtops
Lentz Guitar, Scott Lentz
Michael Lewis Instruments, creates exacting replicas of the legendary works of John D'Angelico
Lichty Guitars by Jay Lichty
Thomas Lieber Guitars, check out his H.R. Giger "alien" guitar and other odd shaped instruments
Leimana Ukeleles, by Ray Wegrzyn, 15142 Jenell St, Poway, CA 92064, (858)486-2284
LightWave Optical Basses
Lincoln Guitar
Lindert Guitars
Line 6, their new "Variax modeling guitar" models an entire guitar collection in a single instrument, models others guitars!!
Kurt Linhof Guitars, former Fender Custom shop Master builder
Michael Lipe Guitars, Tujunga, CA, (818)352-6212, Michael Lipe is the former head of Ibanez and then later Yamaha's custom guitar shop
Little Guitar Works, ergonomic guitars and basses
Loewenherz Bass, Germany
Lollar Guitars
Loog Guitars
John Longbow Guitars
LsL Instruments, Granada Hills, CA
Lucca MusicS hoppe, by Ron Lucca
Lucida Guitars, classical guitars
Mike Lull, used by Randy Jackson
Luna Guitars, designed for females
Lyman Guitars, rustic finishes
LynnEllsworth Guitars, rustic, knotted woods, by creator of Boogie Body Guitars
S.B. MacDonald Custom Instruments
Jon P. Maghini Bass Guitars
Dan MacPherson Guitars
Magneto Guitars, France
Maingard Guitars by Marc Maingard, played by Earl Klugh, Maingard Guitars
Peter Malinoski Art Guitars
Manne, Italian basses & guitars, great website
Hugh Manson Guitars, UK
Linda Manzer Guitars, Canada, sitar guitar
James L. Mapson Handcrafted Archtop Guitars, played by Mundell Lowe, James L. Mapson Handcrafted Archtop Guitars, Santa Ana, CA
Marchione Guitars
Mariner Custom Guitars
MarkGilbert Guitars, Australia, makes Richard Smith guitars
Morgan Monroe Guitars
Marleaux Bass, German
Martin Guitars
Martin-Sigma Guitars
the best acoustic steel string guitars, the standard by which all other acoustic guitars are judged. Martin invented the "Dreadnought" guitar and all other guitar makers are imitators. Nobody at Martin can give me a straight answer as to whether or not their Martin-Sigma Korean made guitars are made exactly like their American guitars
Master Guitars, by George Gorodnitski, he makes some guitars that are played with a bow, MasterGuitars @ usa. com
Matt Raines Guitars, 7 string jazz guitars
Maton Guitars, from Australia
Liutaio Mottola Guitars
Maverick Guitars, UK, by Trevor Wilkinson
Mauel Guitars, Hank Mauel, Auburn, CA
Max Guitars, Hollywood, CA, by Peter "Max" Baranet, replica Les Pauls
Mayones Guitars, Poland
Roy McAlsiter makes clones of Gibson Roy Smeck guitars
McCurdy Guitars, Ric McCurdy, used by John Abercrombie
Glenn McDougall's Deakon Roads Guitars
very good Canadian guitars, they look like Pre-BBE G&L guitars.
McGill Guitars, Paul McGill Guitars
played by Muriel Anderson.
McIlroy Guitars, UK
McInturff Guitars, Terry C. McInturff Guitars are better than Paul Reed Smith guitars, are still handmade unlike PRS, and cost around the same prices as the top-of-the-line PRS
David Thomas McNaught Guitars
better than today's Paul Reed Smith guitars
McPherson Guitars, odd soundholes
McSwain Guitars, Portland, Oregon
these are weird looking guitars
Ted Megas Guitars
is another fine luthier crafting expensive, fine acoustic and electric arch top guitars
Melancon Guitars
one of the best custom guitar builders in the world, check out his website
Merida Guitars
Melo Guitars, Josep Melo
Metropolitan Guitars
Micheletti Guitars
Minarek Guitars, shaped like flames, used by Dick Dale
Bil Mitchell Guitars
MJ Guitar Engineering, Mark Johnson Guitars
Mobius Megatar Specialty Tapping Basses, Traktor Topaz
Mirabella Guitars
Miranda Guitars, like Traveler, SoloEtte, Frameworks
Modular Electric Guitars
Modulus Guitars, Novato, CA
Mody Guitars, Thai, Thai electric guitars
Mody Guitars on Youtube
Mollenhauer Guitars, Dana Point, CA
Moniker Guitars
Jimmy Moon Guitars, Scotland, UK
John Monteleone Guitars, used to make Pat Martino's guitars until Gibson stole Pat away
Moonstone Guitars, Steve Helgeson
Mooretone Guitars, Michael Moore, reproductions of the classic guitars of the late 1950s to mid 1960s
Brian Moore Guitars, designed by Michael Tobias, made in China, sold for very high prices
Morris Guitars
C.F. Morrison
Moser Custom Shop, pointy guitars
Mosrite Guitars, Bakersfield, CA
MotorAve Guitars, Mark Fuqua
Mortoro Guitars Gary Mortoro
Miura Guitars, Van Nuys, CA
Mouradian Guitar
MTB, Michael Tobias Design, he left his first company Tobias Guitars in 1992 after Gibson buyout, this is his new company, builds 10 instruments per month, he's a designer for Grendel Basses, Brian Moore Guitars, Modulus, and Alvarez
Murray Kuun Guitars, South Africa
Muse R&D Guitars, Korea
Music Link, Johnson Guitars, Recording King Guitars, Loar Guitars
Myka Guitars, David Myka
Najarian Music, ouds
Nash Guitars, Bill Nash, Timewarp guitars, reliced guitars, Olympia, WA,
National Reso-Phonic Guitars, San Luis Obispo, CA
Moll Custom Instruments
archtop guitars and archtop bass
Neely Guitars
Negrini Guitars, Switzerland, fanned frets and tempered frets
Nelson Instruments, Rickenbacker clones
Neubauer Guitars, Germany
New England Custom Guitars
Newman Guitars
New Orleans Guitar
Nice Guitars
Nicholas Scott Guitars, UK, made like Smallman guitars
Nielsen Guitars
Toru Nittono Guitars, Japanese builder, Van Nuys, CA 91406, (818)901-8675
Roy Noble Custom Guitars,
Roy Noble Custom Guitars
some of the most famous fingerstyle guitarist play his acoustic guitars
Nordstrand Audio, Redlands, CA
Normandy Guitars, Aluminum guitars and basses
Novax Fanned Fret Guitars
you've got to see these for yourself.
J. Nunis Custom Guitars
ODonnell Guitars, Australia
Orange WoodGuitars, Los Angeles, CA, acoustic
Jose Oribe Guitars, Vista, CA
Original Senn Guitars, by Jeff Senn, former Gibson builder
Organic Guitars, UK
Ormsby Guitars, Australia
Ortega Guitars, Spain, Germany, acoustic guitars and acoustic basses, many are designed by Los Angeles based Flamenco guitarist, Ben Woods
Othon Guitars
Ovation Guitars
Ozztosh Luma Guitars
John Page Guitars, Corona, CA, aka John Page Classic, former Fender Custom Shop builder
Pagelli Guitars, Switzerland
Palen Guitars by Nelson Palen
Palir Guitars
Palm Guitars
Paoletti Guitars, Italy
Ken Parker Guitars, Parker Fly Guitars
endorced by guitar legend Phil Keaggy
Patrick Eggle Guitars
Pavan Guitars, Spain, great classical guitars
Pawar Guitars
Peavey Guitars, their USA-made custom shop guitars are great, but insanely overpriced for solid body guitars
Pederson Custom Guitars, formerly Abyss Guitars, look like Phish guitar
Peekamoose Guitars, custom instruments, restorations, repairs
Peerless Guitars, China
Pellerin Guitars, Canada
Perri Ink Guitars, Los Angeles, CA
Peters Guitars, Michael Peters Guitars, played by Scott Tennant, Andy Summers, Ryan Ayers
Petillo Guitars, also famous for his Petillo Refretting
Petros Guitars by Bruce Petros
Phantom Guitarworks, like VOX guitars
Phillips Guitars by Kraig Phillips
Pick-up the World
Pignose Guitars
Pimentel Guitars, acoustic guitars by Lorenzo Pimentel, great website
PJD Guitars, UK
Player By Keith Urban
Polynesian Guitars, handmade traditional Polynesian guitars made by a Polynesian, call for info, 13071 Euclid St, Garden Grove, CA 92843, (714)539-4552
Portland Guitar, Portland, MA
Prestige Guitars, Canada
Richard Prenkert Guitars
Pre-WarGuitars
Prisma Guitars, San Francisco, CA, handmade from recycled skateboards
PT Berger Guitars
Rainsong Graphite Guitars
great sounding guitars immune to humidity or temperature changes, ultimate touring guitar
Rebel Relic, Netherlands
RBGuitars
Ralph And Sandys Custom Shop, mods Fender guitars, great photos
Red Rocket Guitars
Red Rooster Guitars, Van Nuys, CA
Recording King, Brisbane, CA
Redgate Guitars, Australia, Jim Redgate classical guitars
Jim Reed Guitars, Italy, makes Brain May Guitars
Rees Electric Guitars, UK
Rees Guitars, UK, classical
Reith Guitars, USA made Steinberger clones
Reiver Guitars, UK
Relic Guitar Store
Relish Guitars, Sweden
Rick Turner Guitars, Santa Cruz, CA
Renaissance Guitars by Rick Turner
Raven West Guitar
Rebel Guitars, by Chris Larsen, formerly named Girl Brand Guitars
Revelator Guitar Works, relic refinishes
Reverend Musical Instruments, now selling instruments direct like Carvin
Rhinehart Guitars
Richmond Guitars, Canada
Rickenbacker Guitars
great guitars made from the same factory by the same people for many decades. President John Hall is keeping the brand's standards high, and prices high too.
Nick Page Guitars, Austria
Bernie Rico Jr. Guitars, after spending over 20 years with B.C. Rich (BC Rich Guitars), Bernie Jr. has independantly started a fresh new line of guitars,
Tom Ribbecke Guitars, Healdsburg, CA
expensive thinlines, archtops, drednaughts, custom guitars
Risa Guitars, Germany
Ritter Basses, Germany
Riversong Guitars, Canada, thin acoustics
Rizsanyi Guitars, played by Peter Gabriel
RJ Guitars, Philippines
Rock N Roll Relics by Billy Rowe, San Francisco, CA
RockRabbit Guitars
Mark Roberts Guitars & Ukuleles
Carlo Robelli, Sam Ash's brand, Korean and China made, pretty good guitars, just swap out the pickups with USA pickups and you'll have a good "player" guitar you can take to live shows
Robinson Guitars
RockBeach Guitars
Rockbridge Guitar by Brian Calhoun, husband of violinist Ann Marie Calhoun
Terry Rogers Guitars
Tommy Rodriguez Guitars
Ed Roman Guitars
Jose and Liam Romanillos
Pepe Romero Gutiars, classical
Romero Creations
Pepe Romero Gutiar Strings
Rondo Music, SX Guitars, Agile Guitars, Valencia Guitars, Brice Basses, CNB Cases, Drummer's Design and Century Drums, Hoffman Violins. Very good prices.
Ronin Guitars Humboldt, CA, by John Reed
Roscoe Guitars
Doug Rowell Carved Guitars
Rowan Guitars, Michael Rowan Custom Guitars
RS Guitars
high quality, custom Brian May (of the rock group Queen) Red Special style guitars, made to order,
Brian May equipment
RS Guitarworks, reliced guitars
German Vazquez Rubio (sometimes referred to as G.V. Rubio or German V. Rubio)
(323) 934-0647 5117 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, (323)934-0647, (323)931-6349
Robert Ruck Guitars, classical guitars with cutaways
Ruokangas Guitars, Finland, look like old CA Valley Arts Guitars
Rutters Guitars, by Marc Rutters, Bonsall, CA
Kevin Ryan Guitars
Westminster, CA 92683, (714)894-0590, (800)311-1527
fine acoustic guitars used by many famous musicians including Laurence Juber
Seagull Guitars, Canada
Saga Musical Instruments, distributor
Saint Blues
Salwender
distributor for Bassline, Bogart, Human, Christian Stoll, Teuffel, Tommy's special guitars, Vektor Electric Upright Bass, and boutique amps
Samick Guitars
these are not boutique guitars, these are mass produced guitars. Many other brands worldwide buy Samick guitars and re-badge them with their own names and raise the prices. Gibson-Epiphone guitars are actually Samick guitars. These guitars depreciate quickly and steeply. Many musicians buy these as "thowaway" guitars; they swap out the pickups with Seymour Duncans or some other aftermarket brand, and use these guitars for touring. Now they can have a Les Paul-looking guitar with better pickups. They can bang, drop, scratch and dent the guitar, and it won't bother the musicians because their price trophy vintage boutique guitars are safely stored at their homes. I've seen famous jazz musicians with Samick hollow body guitars; there's no way they're going to take their 1950's prize priceless one-of-a-kind guitar to a smokey jazz club. Also consider that if you're in a rock band playing rhythm guitar, you really can't differentiate between one brand's guitar with another when playing in a band, so you might as well use a Samick instead of some expensive boutique guitar. Samick's PRS-clone guitars are actually better than the Korean-PRS guitars because they have real tremolos, not stoptails. Swap out the pickups on these guitars and you'll have pretty good playing/touring guitars. Samick Guitars
Jack Sanders Guitar, luthier, instructor at Pomona College, CA at California Institute of the Arts, exceptional quality instruments, virtuoso musician
Kirk Sand Guitars, Laguna Beach, CA
Sandberg Guitars
Sandoval Engineering, Victorville, CA
Santa Cruz Guitar, Santa Cruz, CA
Sawtooth Guitars, Newbury Park, CA, sold at GoDps Music
Scala Guitars, Los Angeles, CA
Theo Scharpach
makes the famous SKD guitars played by Steve Howe, guitarist for band YES
Schaefer Guitars, Ed Schaefer
Schecter Guitar Research, Burbank, CA
Schenk Guitars
Kim Schwartz Guitars
675 Vancouver Rd, S.E., Rio Rancho, NM 87124, (505)896-3441
Kim Leland Schwartz, acoustic sitar-guitar has a standard six-string neck with an additional 13 sympathetic strings and a sitar bridge to help her achieve the kind of nontempered phrasing associated with the north Indian instrument
David Schneider Guitars & Lutes & Electric Sitars
Jason Z. Schroeder Custom Guitars
Schwartz Guitars, Canada
Scorpion Guitars
Scott Walker Guitars, Santa Cruz, CA
Trevor Semple Guitars
Sejung Musical Instruments, Korea, Ontario, CA, S101 Guitars, Canvas Guitars
Seraph Harp Guitars
Sire Bass, Torrance, CA, Marcus Miller signature
Takahiro Shimo Guitars, Japan
Nathan Sheppard Guitars, UK
Shabat Guitars, West Hills, CA
Shergold Guitars, UK, famous for being used by UK bands New Order, Joy Division, Genesis and Julian Cope, and Australian band The Church
Singletouch Guitars, Glendora, CA, by Mark Singleton
Pete Skermetta
Skjold Design Guitars
Slick Guitars, by Earl Slick
Greg Smallman Guitars
Gordon Smith Guitars, UK
UK guitars that became famous in the 1970's when used by UK punk rock bands, still based in a suburb of Manchester, affordable handmade instruments, endorsed by the likes of The Buzzcocks and Iggy Pop,
review
Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Stevensville, MD
Which PRS Won't Tune?
PRS History
Soller & Sivcak Guitars, very thin guitars
SoloEtte Guitars, look like Traveler Guitars
Soloway Guitars, Jim Soloway
Ervin Somogyi, Oakland, CA
5l6 52nd. St, Oakland, CA, 94609, (510)652-5123
1080 23rd Ave #101, Oakland, CA 94606, (510)534-4445
acoustic versions of the Novax Fanned Fret Guitars, guitar-lute, carved soundholes
Specimen Guitars
Spalt Basses, Michael S. Spalt, Austria
Sparrow Guitars, Canada
Spector Basses, Stuart Spector Design
Stark Guitars, Bakersfield, CA
Harvey Starr Labs, MIDI controllers built like guitars
Status-Graphite Guitars
Stewart Guitar Company, full size traveling guitars, removable necks
Stuart Custom Guitars, Alan Hamel and Fred Stuart make "Fender Custom Shop" guitars and their own "Alan Hamel & Fred Stuart"/"A&F Guitar Services" branded guitars out of their garages miles away from the official Fender factory. As you may know, when Fred Stuart and Alan Hamel left the Fender Custom Shop, (in 2001) they formed A&F Custom Guitar Services. Along with their line of guitars, they also offered pickups. In 2003, A&F Custom Guitar Services ceased doing business. That same year, Fred Stuart began Stuart Custom Guitars. Stuart Custom Guitars Black Guard pickups have the same specs as the "old A&F 's". The only thing that is different from the A&F's, is that Fred's have more consistent output and tone.
Fred Stuart, 2033 Blenheim St, Riverside, CA 92507, (909)788-7841
Alan Hamel, 1860 Chicago Ave, Suite G-1, Riverside, CA 92501, (909)222-2282
Steinberger Guitars, Steinberger World, now owned by Gibson
Michael Stevens Guitars, former head of Fender Custom Shop, Alpine, TX
Stevenson Guitars, Canada
Sthac Guitars, design a custom guitar online
Stick, Emmet Chapman claims to have invented the touch stick guitar and has sued Traktor Topaz
Christian Stoll Guitars
Stonefield, New Zealand
Strandberg Guitars, Sweden
Stromberg Guitars, Korea
StoneToneMusic Guitars
Status Graphite Guitars
SugarTone Guitars, UK
Sugi Guitars, Japan, by Nick Sugimoto
John Suhr Guitars
(formerly of Fender) is skilled world famous electric guitar luthier. Call John Suhr at (909)471-2334. Him and Bob Bradshaw have designed their own amps. Call Bob at (818)763-8898, FX:(818)763-8890 for info, or email Martin Golub
Surine Basses
Suzuki, Japan
Sweetwood Guitars, Soquel, CA
Swing Guitars, Korean
SX Guitar Spain, Spain
Tacoma Guitars, owned by Fender but shuttered
Tagima Guitars, Huntington Beach, CA, made in Brazil
TaikiMusic Guitars, Chinese made wooden roundback guitars, like Ovation Guitars
Takamine, Japan
Truong Huu Chau Guitars, Tan Chau guitars, world famous acoustic guitar builder in Vietnam
TangleWood Guitars, UK
Tausch Guitars, Germany
Taylor Guitars, El Cajon, CA
Taylor Mcgrath Guitars, relic Fender clones
TDL Guitar Works, De Lacugo Guitars
Terraplane Guitars, steel resonator guitars
Ulrich Teuffel Guitars, weird shapes
Teye Guitars
Thames Classical Guitars
Thanh Cam Musical Instrument Workshop, by Van Thuoc and Do Viet Dung, world famous guitar builders, Vietnam, Thanh Cam Musical Instruments
Thomas Corbishley Guitars
Paul Thomson, UK luthier of Lutes used by Paul O'Dette
Thorn Guitars, Glendale, CA
Carl Thompson, Carl Thompson Bass, used by Stanley Clark and Les Claypool
ThreeGuitars, Italy
Till Guitars, Westlake Village, CA, by Joe Till
Timberline Guitars, harp guitars
Timeless Instruments by David Freeman
Timtone Guitars, weird guitars
TMG Guitar by Taylor McGrath, there are bad stories about him selling overpriced parts guitars as handmade customs, search the internet
Tnm Guitars by Terry McArthur
Tokai Guitar, from Japan, Tokai Guitar, some people consider Tokai Love Rock guitars to be superior to Gibson USA guitars
Tom Bills Guitars
ToneArts Guitars by Yasuhiko Iwanade, Japan
ToneDevil Harp Guitars
ToneLounge Guitars, El Toro, CA, G&L clones
Tone Revival Guitars
The Top Guitars, Carson, CA, Prince guitars
Totem Guitars, by Michael S. Spalt, Austria
TTR Nexus Guitars, Michael Spalt, True Tone Research Design, Totem Guitars, Garage Guitars, Spalt Basses
some of the weirdest, artsy looking guitars ever made, made from wood and resin, you've got to see and play them for yourself. He also makes regular solid body guitars from mahogany, cedar, rosewood, alder, and ash, he's from the "Silverlake" area of Los Angeles, famous for quirky thrift-shop aesthetics and high-concept artists
Township Guitars, African oil-can guitars
Traben Bass, played by Bootsy Collins
Tradition Guitars
Jeff Traugott Guitars
is another fine luthier crafting expensive, fine acoustic and electric arch top guitars.
Traveler Guitars, Redlands, CA
subsidiary of Fender, these guitars are great
TreeTone Guitars
Tregan Guitars
James Trussart Guitars, rusted beat up metal look, Los Angeles, CA
Tucker Guitars
TunaTone Guitars by Leila Sidi, Canada
Tune Guitars, Korea
Turley Guitars, Canada, by Adam Turley, acoustic
Tuttle Guitars by Michael Tuttle, Santa Clarita, CA
Unique Guitars, Joey Rico, the son of Bernard Chavez Rico (founder of BC Rich Guitars),
Un Sung Musical Instrument Co., Korean
UNO Guitars, Korea
Valenti Basses
Mike Vanden Archtop Guitars
these are played by famous British guitarist Martin Taylor
VanZandt Guitar, Japan, some people say these are better than Fender American Custom Shop guitars, very expensive
VeeLah Guitars, Taiwan
Joe Veillette Guitars, look like Rick Turner
Velano Instrument Company
Verrilli Guitars, Frank Verrilli
Versoul Guitars, Helsinki, Finland
Viktorian Guitars by Boaz Elkayam
Vigier Guitars, Patrice Vigier in Paris, France
Vines Guitars, Tony Vines
Vinetto Guitars, Vince Cunetto made the first Fender Relic
Visesnut Guitar, by Narongsak Visesnut, Thailand
VOX Guitars, VOX Guitars
Walsh Guitars
Warwick Bass
Washburn, most are imported OEM'd Korean made guitars, their jazz guitars are great and are actually used by famous professionals; their USA made "signature series" are great; their Nuno Bettencourt guitar with Bill Lawrence pickups is one of the best guitars ever desgined and made
WaterSlide Guitars, Los Angeles, CA, pawn shop looking relic guitars, Coodercasters
Waterstone Guitars, hollowbody p-bass & j-bass
Wayne Charvel Guitars, Paradise, CA
Wechter Guitars, China
Wendler Electrocoustic
Webber Guitars, Canada
Abe Wechter Guitars
double cutaway drednaughts, used by many famous jazz artists
Weifang Huihao Musical Instrument, China
Wells Guitars
Wendler Electrocoustic
WestField Guitars, UK
Westone Prestige Electric Guitars
Whitfill Custom Guitars by Charles Whitfill Whitfill Custom Guitars
Jonathan Wilson Designs, Sylmar, CA, bowed guitars
Wing Instruments, Wing Bass, very short scale bass
Kathy Wingert Guitars
28364 South Western Ave #451, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275, (310)522-9596
great acoustic guitars, characteristic playability, clarity, focus, sustain, beauty, and tone, one at a time, one of a kind
Wire Instruments by Earnie Bailey
Wishbass
Witkowski Guitars, Poland
Wittman-Spins
Wes Lambe Guitars
Worland Guitars, Pasadena, CA
Xaviere Guitars, clones of Zemaitis guitars at lower prices
Xotic Guitars, Prosound Communications, Los Angeles, CA
Yajima String Works, New York, Brett Faust, former Fender Custom Shop builder
Jeffrey Yong Guitars, by CH Jeffrey Yong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Yuichi Imai, Japan
Zachary Guitars
Zager Guitar, "EZ-Play" Guitars are modified by Master Guitar Luthier Denny Zager to play easier than any other guitar made
Zemaitis Guitars by Tony Zemaitis
Zerberus Guitars, German
Zion Guitars
endorced by guitar legends Phil Keaggy, Kerry Livgren, Ty Tabor, Neil Zaza
Zon Guitars
Zucali Guitars, nylon jazz
Zuni Guitars
Various Boutique Luthiers (I'll add links as I find them): ACHIM PETER Gropius, Antonio De Torres, Antonio Marin Montero, ANTONIO Raya Pardo, ARCANGEL Fernandez, Barone, BERNHARD Kresse, BRIAN Cohen, CERVANTES, Colin Morison, DANIEL Friederich, DAVID Daily, David Rubio, David Whiteman, DOMINGO Esteso, Douglas Pringle, EDGAR Monch, Eric Sahlin, Ervin Somogyi, Fischer, Francisco Simplicio Hernandis, Frederich Holtier, Frederick Mueller, Fritz Ober, GERHARD SCHNABL, German Vazquez Rubio, Gilet, Gioachino Giussani, GIOACHINO GIUSSIANI, Gregory Byers, HEIDI PULFER, HERMANN Hauser I, HERMANN Hauser II, HERMANN Hauser III, Hernandez y Aguado, Horabe, IGNACIO Fleta, Jacobson, James North, Jean Rompre, JEFF Kemp, JEFFREY Elliott, Jeremy Locke, Jeronimo Pena Fernandez, Jim Redgate, JOHN Gilbert, John Peter Barthell, Jose Marin Plazuelo, JOSE Ramirez, Jose Romanillos, Kevin Aram, La Mancha, Les Stansell Myrtlewood, Louis Panormo, M. Tezanos Perez, MANUEL Contreras, MANUEL Contreras II, MANUEL Reyes, Manuel Velazquez, Marcelino Lopez, Mathias Dammann, Matthew Bolliger, MICHAEL BOGGEMAN, MICHAEL GEE, Michael Menkevich, Middleton, MIGUEL Rodriguez, MIKHAIL Robert, OBER BLOCHINGER, Otto Vowinkel, Paul Sheridan, PETER Barton, Rafael de Cordoba, RANDY Reynolds, Rene Baarslag, RICARDO SANCHIS, Richard Brune, RICHARD Howell, Robert Ruck, Ron Bushman, Sebastian Stenzel, Simon Ambridge, Stephen J. Hill, Stephen Kakos, Thames, Thomas Budke, THOMAS Humphrey, Thomas Prisloe, Tom Blackshear,
Augistino LoPrinzi, FABIO Ragghianti, DAKE Traphagen, Alastair McNeill, Kolya Panhuyzen
Directory Archtop Guitar Luthiers
Guitars Amplifiers
- Power Attenuator: Altair PW-5 Power Attenuator
- Power Attenuator: Aracom Amps
- Power Attenuator: Kendrick Power Glide Attenuator, Gerald Weber said he "upgraded the Trainwreck Airbrake Mark II Power Attenuator to the Kendrick Power Glide Attenuator
- Power Attenuator: Koch LB120 Load Box
- Power Attenuator: Komet Airbrake, uses the exact same circuit and parts as the original Trainwreck Airbrake designed by Ken Fischer
- Power Attenuator: Mako Amplification Load Box Deluxe
- Power Attenuator: Marshall
- Power Attenuator: Palmer
- Power Attenuator: Radial Engineering
- Power Attenuator: SPL
- Power Attenuator: THD Hot Plate
- Power Attenuator: Tom Scholz Power Soak, brains behind the supergroup Boston
- Power Attenuator: Two-Notes cabinet simulator
- Power Attenuator: Weber Mass by Ted Weber
- Power Attenuator: Ultimate Attenuator
- 3 Monkeys Amps
- 3rd Power Amps, triangle shaped cabinets
- 45 rpm Amps, Dumble clones
- 633 Engineering, UK
- 65 Amps, Valley Village, CA
- Ace Pepper Custom Amps
- Ace Pepper Custom Amps
- Acme Sound Bass Cabinets
- AccuGroove Bass Cabinets, Redding, CA
- Accutronics Reverb, Korea
- Acoustic Image Amps, solid state
- Adam's Amplifiers
- Advance Tube Technology
- AF Custom Cabinets, UK
- Aftershock Designs, lighted cabinets
- Aguilar Amplification
- Aiken Amplification
- AirTightGarage Amps
- Albion Amps, China or Denmark
- Aclam Guitars, Spain
- George Alessandro
- Allen Amplification, amps and parts
- AllTone Speakers by Mark Shumaker and Joe Naylor
- Amonito Amps, Slovenia
- Ampete, Germany, Ampete Engineering, amps and switchers
- Amplified Nation, Dumble clones
- AmpTone boutique fansite
- Amp U Plug N Play
- Analog Outfitters, Hammond reissues
- Anderson Amps
- Andrews Amps
- Angela Instruments
- Antique Electronic Supply, Tempe, AZ, speakers and amp parts
- Apache Amps, Los Angeles, CA
- Arachnid Cabs, Sacramento, CA, lighted cabinets
- Aracom Amps, Morgan Hill, CA
- Area 51 Tube Audio Designs
- Arafel Electronics
- Ark Amps, fine wood cabinets
- Ashen Amps, North Hollywood, CA, amps, custom cabinets for other brands
- Ashdown Music, Ashdown Amps UK
- Aspen and Associates by Aspen Pittman
- Aspen Pittman Designs, San Fernando, CA, by the late Aspen Pittman
- Aston Electronics, Volt Amplifiers, UK
- At Mars Amps
- Atomic Amps by Harry Kolbe for Line 6 PODs, Fractal Audio
- Auble Systems
- Audio Cage Amps by Pete Cage
- Austin Speaker Works, high end speakers
- AER Amps, Audio Electric Research, acoustic amps, Germany
- Avatar Speakers
- AX84TM - The Cooperative Tube Guitar Amp Project
- AXL Amps, AXL
- B Custom Cabs
- B-52 Stealth Series
- Bad Cat Amps, Costa Mesa, CA, new amps by Mark Sampson, founder of Matchless, restarted by Joe Allrich, sales and marketing. Mark Sampson also runs a second amp company, see "Sonic Machine Factory", Norco, CA
- Bacino Amp, Marshall clones
- BackLine Engineering
- Bag End
- Balz Amplification, San Gabriel, CA, (626)286-4353, also makes Rex Bogue Guitars
- Balthazar Audio Systems, Selmer clones, by Balthazar de Ley, for Smashing Pumpkins
- Baroni-Lab, Italy
- Bartel Amps
- Bedrock Amps
- Behringer Guitar Workstations
- BC Audio, San Francisco, CA
- Bennett Music Labs, Bruce Bennett Music Labs, also ghost build for Krayon Amplification
- Benson Amps, Portland, OR
- Bergantino by Jim Bergantino, bass
- BGW Amps
- Bill Fitzmaurice, plans, giant bass cabinets with horn speakers
- BlackStar Amps, UK
- BlackVolt Amplification, Los Angeles, CA
- BlackWing Amps, Corona, CA, founded by the late James Heidrich
- Blankenship Amplification, North Hollywood, CA, (904)349-0827, Fender tweed clones
- BludoTone, Dumble clones
- Blue Tone Amps, Finland
- Bob Burt Cabinets, V-Front Series Cabinets, he makes cabinets for other amp companies
- Bogner Amps, North Hollywood, CA
- Boombass Cabinets
- Boondoggle Amplifiers, James Cole makes combos with Leslie power amps, bypassable equalizer, JBL speakers, annd clear-grain pine cabinets that sound like Fender blackface amps without reverb
- Booya Amplifier Services
- BOUTIQUE AMPS DISTRIBUTION, Commerce, CA
- Brunetti Amps, Italian tube amps
- Bruno Amps
- Budda Amps, now a Peavey brand, Jeff Bober now has his own East Amps brand
- Bugera Amps, China, British Virgin Islands
- Burnham Amplification, cabinets, Burnham Amplification
- Burriss Amps
- Bob Burt Cabinets
- Bull Head Amplification
- Cab Guy, amp and speaker cabinets
- Callaham Amps
- Canopus Amps, used by The Ventures
- Carl Martin, Denmark
- Carlos Amps, German
- Carls Custom Amps, Tumblin' Dice amps
- Carlsbro Amps, UK
- Carlson Amps
- Carol-Ann Custom Amplifiers
- Carp Amps, Norco, CA
- Carr Amps
- Carstens Amplification, Billy Corgan amps
- Carvin Audio
- Carvin store on Reverb
- Caswell Amps
- Category 5 Amps, Frisco, Texas
- Cauble Custom Amps
- Cec Amps, makes Johnny Hiland signature model
- Centrance, USB computer connections
- Ceriatone, kits, parts
- Chandler Custom Amps
- Chara Amplification
- ChickenHead Amps, China
- Chute Amplifiers, Canada
- Cicognani Amps, Italy
- Clark Amplification, Fender clones
- Clark Synthesis Tactile Sound Monitors
- Classic Amplification
- Classic Tone Transformers by Magnetic Components
- Club Amps, Scotts Valley, CA
- Colby Amplification, Park Amps, Jimi Page Amps
- Cornell Amps, UK
- Cornford Amplification, UK
- Colorsound, Greece
- Cosmic Terror Cabs, Germany, 1x18 cabs
- Creation Music Company
- Cusack Music
- Custom Audio Electronics, Los Angeles, CA, Robert C. Bradshaw and John Suhr, used by the group U2
- Custom Audio Mutation
- Custom By Cougar, by Tommy Cougar, official Mystique amps service shop
- CYR Amps
- Daedalus Music, cabinets
- Dabeck Custom Amps
- Dagnall Transformers, UK
- David Bray Amps, Yucca Valley, CA
- Dark Glass, Finland
- Deacy Amplifier, UK, designed by Queen bassist John Deacon, replicas made by Knight Audio Technologies
- Decware Zen Guitar Amplifier, by Doc Lancaster
- Deering Amps by Tom Deering
- Deluxe Amplification, clones
- Demeter Amps, Templeton, CA
- Denver Amp Works
- DevilCat Amps
- Diamond Amplification
- Diezel Guitar Amps
- Diffusion-Audio
- Digital Phase Loudspeakers
- Dime Amplification
- Dirty Dog Amps
- Divided By 13 Amps, Fred Taccone, Los Angeles, CA
- DNA Amps, David Nordschow Amplification
- Dover Amps, UK
- Dr. Z Amplification
- D-Tar, the union of Seymour Duncan Pickups with noted luthier and acoustic amplification expert, Rick Turner
- Duesenberg Amplification, Germany
- Howard Dumble Amps, RIP Jan 2022, Dumble Amplifiers, Email Howard Dumble. Howard Alexander Dumble charges the highest prices for guitar amps, he has made only 170-220 amps in total, these are hideously expensive, unforunately most seem to be hoarded by two very wealthy individuals in Japan and England, a rumor I've heard about his "secret blob" is that it is actually a dissected Ibanez Tube Screamer, but I can't confirm that. For speakers he doesn't use overpriced reissue brands - he uses PA speakers from EV so if you want those kinds of speakers get an EV PA speaker and save yourself thousands,
review,
Alexander "Howard" Dumble,
The Dumble Phenomenon
- Duncan Amps
- Dusky Amp
- Dynamic Amps
- Dynamo Amplification
- DVK Tech amps for modelling preamps
- DV Mark Amps, Italy
- Euphonic Audio
- EarCandy Cabs
- East Amplification by Jeff Bober, formerly of Budda Amps
- EBS Bass, Sweden
- Edcor Transformers
- Eddie Wang Instruments
- Eden Electronics, Nemesis Amps
- Edward Amplification, Canada
- Eich Amps, Germany
- Eisel Amplification, Moorpark, CA
- Egnater Amps, Huntington Park, CA, Bruce Egnater designed Chinese-made
- Eko Amps, Italy
- Eleca Amps
- Electric Amp, custom cabinets
- Electric Wood Amps
- Electro-Harmonix
- Electroplex Amps, Fullerton, CA, Brea, CA, by founder and designer Don Morris, Electroplex Amplifiers by Don Morris
- ElectroVoice Speakers
- Elliott Guitars
- Elmwood Amps, Sweden, exceptional amps, head units are in see-thru cage
- Emery Sound Amps
- Eminence Speakers
- Emperor Cabs
- Engl Amps, Germany
- Ernie Ball Music Man Amps, Pre-Ernie Ball Music Man Amps
- Esstee Amps by Stefan Johansson
- Euphonic Audio
- Evans Amplifiers, very quiet
- Excalibur Amps, Germany
- Fane International Speakers, Fane-Acoustics Speakers, UK
- Fargen Amps by Ben Fargen, aka Exclusive Amps, he also modifies other amps
- Fat Jimmy Amps, Petaluma, CA
- Fender Amps, worlds most popular amps by the world biggest amp company. Fender invented their Bassman amp which is the model that most other guitar amp manufacturers derived their designs from. They make dozens of similar models so that their many dealers in close proximity don't have to compete against each other on price, this is known as "confusion marketing". Fender tube amps sound great but have cheap flimsy plastic buttons, most of their imported solid state amps sound like junk except for their great sounding Mexican-Acoustasonic amps. Fender's discontinued Acoustasonic Pro was a great amp. Fender's USA made amps, especially their Custom Shop and Master Built amps, seem to be instantly collectable while their imported amps are not collectable. Fender bought competing brands Sunn Amps and SWR Amps and seems to be shelving them; Fender can't stand competition. I'm not sure what to make of their Mexican tube amps which look good, but may depreciate steeply.
- Fende Custom Shop Amps
- Fender Amp Field Guide
- Fender-Amp.com
- Firebelly Amps, Santa Monica, CA
- FireBelly Amps on Reverb
- Florance Amplifiers, Peter Florance and Todd Vukmanic
- Fluxtone Speakers
- Flynn Amps, UK
- Foppstar
- Forney Custom Amps, Santee, CA, Dumble and Marshall clones
- Fortin Amps, Canada
- Framus Amps
- Franklyn Amps
- Frank N Tone Amps, Germany
- Frenzel Tube Amps, great rackmount cases
- Friedman Amplification, North Hollywood, CA
- Fromel Electronics
- Frugal Amps
- Andy Fuchs Audio Technology Designs, Dumble derived clones, he also modifies other amps to become Dumble clones, he "allows you to obtain high performance amplifiers at a fraction of the price of a so-called 'botique amplifier'. Whether it's audiophile or musical applications, if you own the chassis and transformers, your amplifier can be rebuilt to your needs."
- Fryette Amps by Steven Fryette, formerly of VHT amps, Burbank, CA, Steve Friette used to play guitar for punk band The Dickies
- Fullertone Amps, "plow front" tweed, V-front
- Furman Sound, power line conditioners
- Fusco Cabinets, builds cabinets for other boutique builders
- GabTone Gabriel Sound Garage
- Gallien-Krueger, Stockton, CA
- Garnet Amps
- GDS Amplification
- General Vintage Tone Amplification, Spain
- Genz Benz
- Genzler Amplification
- Gerhart Amps
- George Dennis Amps, from Czech Republic
- Gehring Amps by Jeff Gehring
- Gibson Amps
- Ginelle Amps
- Gjika Amplification, San Diego, CA
- Grindrod Amps, UK
- Glaswerks Amps, Dumble clones
- Glockenklang Amps
- Goodsell Amplifiers by Richard Goodsell, Super 17, Goodsell Amps
- Grammatico Amps, Fender clones
- Granger Amps
- GrayTechSound
- Greg Germino Amps, Marshall clones
- Gregs Pro Audio, Riverside, CA, custom cabinets
- Green Company Amps, Matamp
- Greer Amplifcation, Nick Greer
- Gries Amplification
- GrooveTubes Amps, by Aspen Pittman who wrote the book "The Tube Amp Book" and sells tubes to other builders including Fender
- Guitar Cabinets Direct
- Gurus Amps, Italy
- Guytronix Amps, kits, 1/2, 2 and 8 Watt
- Hamiltone Amps
- Hammertone Amps
- Hammond Transformers, Canada
- Hamstead Soundworks Amps, UK
- Hard Truckers speaker cabinets, designed and built the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound
- Harper Amplifier
- HarpGear Amplifiers
- Harry-Joyce Amps, USA, Harry-Joyce UK tribute pageAmps
- Hartke Amps, China
- Hatcher Amps
- Hatt Amps
- Hayden Amps, UK
- Hayes Amplification by David L. Hayes, custom built tweed, blackface and the early British style amps at reasonable prices
- Headstrong Amps, Santa Cruz, CA or Asheville, NC
- Hearth Amplifiers
- Hendy Amps
- Hempopotamus Loudspeakers
- Heritage Amplifiers, formerly known as Holland Amps; Previously, Lane Zastrow was a partner in the L&M Corporation with Mike Holland, which built Holland Amplifiers
- Hermida Audio
- Hermit Cab, isolation cabinets
- Hevos Amps
- Heyboer Transformers
- High Cliff SoundBoard, by Bruce Petros, guitar with an acoustic board instead of a speaker
- High Desert Sonic Institute Amps, Yucca Valley, CA
- Hinsdale Custom Cabinets by John Hinsdale
- Hime Amplification
- HipKitty Products
- HI-TONE Amplification, Hiwatt clones and restorations
- Hiwatt Amplification, UK
- Hoffman Amplifiers, he "ghostbuilt" amps for Randall, Pisgah Forest, NC
- Hoffmann Amps by Kim David Hoffmann, Los Angeles, CA
- Homestead Amps
- Hook Amps, Netherlands
- Hovercraft Amps, Hovercraft Amps
- Hughes & Kettner Amps
- Humphrey Amplifiers
- Hylight, UK
- Ibanez, great tube amps, Japan
- Iceberg Amps, UK, metal combo
- Indigo Amps
- Industrial Amps, great looking
- Invaders Amplification, Belgium
- Iron Sounds
- ISP Technologies, Waller, Theta
- Jackson Amps
- Jaguar Amplification, Escondido, CA
- Palmer Recording Studio & Guitar Gear, amps, Palmer speaker simulator
- JazzAmp, Henriksen Amps
- Jdubz Amplification
- Jeff Rowland Power Storage Unit takes the "clean power" concept
- Jensen Vintage Speakers
- Jessup Amps, Los Angeles, CA
- Jester Products Oahu Amps
- Jim Kelley Amplifiers, Silverado, CA
- JJ-Electronic, Slovak Republic
- JMI Amplification, UK, Jennings Musical Industries (JMI), Vox clones better than the China-made Vox ones now
- Jms Elektronic, Swedish clones of Fender amps
- Jones Amplifiers
- Johnson Musical Instruments
- Phil Jones Bass, China, designed by Phil Jones
- JoYo China Amps, JoYo China Amps, China
- Juke Musical Instrument Amplifiers, clones of Magnatone amps
- Jule Amps, Santa Cruz, CA
- Jupiter Speakers, speakers and capacitors
- Kalamazoo Guitar Amps
- Kaliphoria Music
- Karma Guitar Amps, Healdsburg, CA
- Kasha Amplifiers, Simi Valley, CA
- Kelemen Amplifiers by Joe Kelemen, JoMama - Kelemen Amplifiers
- Kemper Amps, modelling
- Kendrick Amplifiers
- Kikusui America, power line conditioners, used by Joe Bonamassa
- Kinder Instruments, Moreno Valley, CA, 6x10 combo
- Kingsley Amplifiers, Canada
- Harry Kolbe Soundsmith
- Komet Amps, built by Holger Notzel, designed by Ken Fischer of Trainwreck, call Hogy at (225)926-1976
- Tony Krank Amplifiers, modified Sovtek amps
- Krank Amplification
- Krunch Kabinets, Norwalk, CA
- KSR Amplification
- Kustom Amplifiers
- KW Cab
- LAA Custom, Italy
- Laboga Amps, Poland
- Lab Systems Amplifiers
- John Landgraff Amplifiers, sold at Blues Angel Music, uses Bob Burt Guitar Cabinets
- Landry Amps
- Laney Amplifiers, UK
- Lang Amps
- Larry Amplification, Germany
- LazyJ Amps, UK
- Lee Jackson Amplification, formerly of Pignose, Rivera, Fender, Metaltronix, Ampeg, Crate
- Lerxst Amps by Mojotone, makes Alex Lifeson amps
- Leyland SoundDesign, Canada
- Leyland SoundDesign, Argentina
- Little Dawg Amps, Lincoln, CA
- Little Walter Tube Amps
- London Power, Canada
- Longhorn Amps
- Lopo Line Cabinets, very good prices
- LopHat Cabinets, Canoga Park, CA, aka Demeter
- Louis Electric Amplifiers, wood, v-panels
- Little Lanilei Amps, Songworks Systems
- Luker Amps
- LuxeTone Amps, Palm Springs, CA
- Mad Professor, Finland
- Madison Amps
- Magnatone Amplifiers, these are archives - Magnatone Amplifiers
- Magnetic Components, amp transformers
- Mahalo Amps
- Malin Amplification
- Mako Amplification
- Marble Amps, Netherlands, stereo surround amps
- Margasa Amps by Daniel Margasa
- Mark Bass Amps, Italy, orange speakers
- MarkPercy 4 X 15 Bass Guitar Cabinets, UK
- Marsh Amps, amps and kits
- Marshall Amplification, UK, their tube amps sound great but have cheap flimsy plastic buttons, their solid state amps sound like junk, only get their handwired UK made gear, not their OEM'ed junk from China
- Marshau Amps, China
- Marstran Transformers
- MA SoundWorks, Michael Arnopol Soundworks, bass speakers
- MatAmp
- Mather Amp Cabinet
- Matchless Amps, Los Angeles, CA, founder Phil Jamison now runs the company, the other founders are building amps on their own, their employees now work for other companies: Mark Sampson (Bad Cat Amps), Rick Seccombe (Overbuilt-now Fender), Rick Perotta (Royer Labs)
- Mather Amp Cabinet, cabinets, maker for other brands
- Matrix Amplification
- Maughan Amps, UK
- Maven Peal Instruments, Zeeta Amplifiers
- MaxWatt, UK
- Mega Amps, China, they OEM build for other brands
- Megatone Amps by DJL Vintage Audio
- Mercury Magnetics amp Transformers, Chatsworth, CA
- Merren Audio Transformers, San Diego, CA
- MesaBoogie Amps, Petaluma, CA,
- sold at their showroom in Hollywood at MesaBoogie Hollywood
- Metasonix, makes the the world's smallest tube amp, crude names
- Meteor Amps
- Meteoro, Brazil
- Metropoulos Amplification, Marshall clones
- Mezzabarba Amps, Italy
- MGL Amp Works, Marshall stack clones
- MI Audio, Australia
- Michael Dolsey Designs
- Mikes Music Amps, Fender tweed clones
- Milbert Amplifiers
- Milkman Sound, San Francisco, CA
- MillHill Audio
- Mission Amps
- MLC Amps, Poland
- Mojo Musical Supply, amp parts, cabinets, chassis, speakers
- Mojo Musical Supply, amp parts, cabinets, chassis, speakers
- Monkeymatic Amps, Chico, CA
- Moon Amps, rotor speakers
- MooreSound, Oceanside, CA
- Morgan Amps by Joe Morgan, Huntington Beach, CA
- Morris Amps, Canada
- Moss Amps, by Maurice "Moss" Gelinas, formerly Brown Note Amps
- Motion-Sound Amps, rotary speakers like Fender Vibratone and Leslie
- Motherload Amps, UK
- Moxie Amps
- Munder Amps
- Musical Power Supplies, amp parts
- MusicLord Amps, Glen Huttenlocker
- Music Man Amps
- Nady
- Nau by John Nau
- National Guitar Amps
- Naylor Engineering
- Newell Amps, tweed cabinets TV style
- NFA Technology
- New Sensor Corporation: Sovtek, Electro-Harmonix
- New Vintage Amps
- Nobels Electronics
- Nolatone
- Old Brown Amps
- OldsCool Amps, Fender tweed clones
- Old Dog Products, X-cabinets
- Oldfield Tube Amps, Fender and Marshall clones
- Omega Amp Works
- Onkel Amps
- Onyx Amplification, by Harvey Gerlitz and Erick Cook
- Orange Amps, UK, Orange Amps
- Orion Amps, Burbank, CA
- Overton Amps
- Park Amplifiers, Colby Amps
- P3 Amps
- Parson Amplification, El Monte, CA
- Peavey Amplifiers, their USA-made Classic Series tube amps are good, their new boutique Wiggy amplifier is amazing; they make good guitar amps and great bass amps, I don't understand why they aren't doing more to promote their products and why their advertisements look so cheezy. They also distribute Trace Elliot Amps, UK
- Paul Ruby Amps, Paul Ruby Amplifiers
- Penn Instrument Company Amps
- Peters Amplification, Canada, good design
- Phaez Amplifiers
- Phil Jones PureSound
- Pierson Amplifiers, Fender clones
- Pitcher Amplifiers
- Plush Amplifiers, out of business
- Polytone Amps, 6885 Vineyard Ave, N. Hollywood, CA 91605, (818)760-2300, soild state, Polytone Amps
- Port City Amps
- PriceLess Amp Restoration, specializing in restoring vintage Fender amps. Also sells parts, DIY restoration kits, and offers free plans on building your own tube matcher and preamp tube tester
- Pritchard Amps by Eric Pritchard
- ProAmp, Italy, bass, mesh cabinets
- Pure Sixty Four Amps
- PureTone Amps
- PWE Amplification, Canada
- Quilter Labs, Costa Mesa, CA
- Raezers-Edge Cabinets
- Rack Systems Ltd, Dave Friedman makes custom amps and is a friend of Howard Dumble and Budda Amps, North Hollywood, CA
- Rainbow Electronics, Sacramento, CA
- Randall Amplifiers
- RC Davis Amps, San Francisco, CA
- Retrodyne Amplification
- Reason Amplifier
- RedPlate Amps
- Red Iron Amps by Paul Sanchez, burned wooden cabinets, make Sarah Jane amp
- RJS Amps
- Reeves Amps, Laney clones
- Rkock Amps, Germany
- Rendition Audio
- Resonant Electronic
- Retro-Channel
- RetroKing Amps
- Reussenzehn, Germany
- Revenge Amps, Revenge Amps
- Revival Amps, Escondido, CA
- Revolt Amps
- ReVv Amplification, Canada
- Reynolds Valveart Amps, Australia
- Rift Amps, UK
- Risson Amplifiers, Brea, CA, by Bob Rissi, ex-Fender amp designer, ex-Rickenbacker Transonic amp designer
- Rivera Amplifiers, Burbank, CA, Rivera Research & Development
- Roach Amplification
- Roadhouse Amps
- Roccaforte Amps, Brea, CA
- Rocket Amplifiers by ADA, went out of business, but many amps and kits are still available, review
- Rocktron Amps
- Rodenberg Amplification, Germany
- Rokdog Amps, Canada
- Roland Amps, their famous JC120 is a great amp, but the rest of their modeling amps have crappy speakers and sound the same regardless of the settings - as if you really could get a Marshall Stack sound from a crappy 8" speaker. Their Cube and "Tube Logic" amps sound like crap.
- Rude Mood Amp
- SamAmp
- Satellite Amps, San Diego, CA
- Savage Audio
- Schertler
- Schreyer Audio, Carlsbad, CA
- Schroeder Amplification, Schroeder Audio
- Schroeder Cabinets, Hacienda Heights, CA, by Jorg Schroeder
- Schroeder Guitar Repair
- Scott Dixon Inc, aluminium cases
- Scumback Speakers, by Jim Seavall
- SDG Vintage Amps
- Sebago Sound, San Jose, CA, Dumble clones
- Seismic Audio Speakers
- Selmer Amps, discontinued
- Shaw Audio by Kevin Shaw
- Sheldon Amps, UK
- Sherlock Amplifiers, Australia
- Shinos Amplifiers, Japan
- Silk Tone, Alamo, CA
- Simple Amps, Laguna Niguel, CA
- SineWave Amps, Santa Rosa, CA
- Skip Simmons Amps
- Skrydstrup Amps, Denmark
- Sligo Amps by Steve Sligo, custom built tweed, blackface and the early British style amps at reasonable prices
- SLS Loudspeakers, ribbon louspeakers, great sound for PA systems
- SmartBelle Amplification
- Smith Custom Amps
- Sound Enhancer, Enhancer cabinet stands
- Smokey Amps, I included this here to show you it was possible to drive a speaker stack with a tiny amplifier and to bring to your attention how afforable solid state electronics can be; the world's smallest and least expensive guitar amplifier, made in the USA. The box is a real recycled cigarette pack that has been reinforced from the inside or a translucent polycarbonate box
- Strictly Hook Ups folded horn speaker cabinets
- Snider Amplification by Jeff Snider and Gregg Levy, Snider Amplification
- Soldano
- SommaTone Amps
- Songworks Systems Little Lanilei Amps
- Sonochorde Amplifiers
- Sonic Machine Factory, a second company run by Mark Sampson of "Bad Cat Amps" and "Star Amps" and formerly of "Matchless Amps"
- Sonny Jr. Amps
- Soultone Amps
- SoulTramp Amps
- Sound Enhancer
- Specimen Tube Amps
- Splawn Guitars
- Square Amps, old radios made into guitar amps
- Stage Right Amps
- Stamis Customs Amps
- Standel, Los Angeles, CA, These great guitar amplifiers are back! their combo amps have 15" speakers, made famous by Chet Atkins, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Garcia, and many others, the "standard" for slide guitars, call Frank Garlock at (800)748-5555 for info on where you can try one out for yourself.
- Steavens Amps, Germany
- Stephenson Amps, Canada
- Star Amplifiers, Mark Sampson starts another amp company in Los Angeles, CA, Mark Sampson
- Stark Amps, Germany
- Steamboat Ampworks
- Stone Deaf, UK
- Stoneham Amps, UK
- Straub Amps, Straub Amps
- StromTank, Germany battery power supply, takes the "clean power" concept
- StubbyFex
- Studious Amplifiers
- Suhr Guitars, see also Custom Audio Electronics, Lake Elsinore, CA
- Supro Amps
- Sunn Amps, owned by Fender who shelved the brand in the USA, but still sells it oversees Sunn Amps
- SunDragon Amps, by Jimmy Page
- SuperNatural Amps
- Supro Amplifiers
- Surreal Amplification, Westminster, CA
- SwampWorks Amps
- Swamp Donkey Amps, Canada
- SwanPro Amps
- Swanson Cabinets
- Swart Amps, Space Tone, Atomic Tone
- SWR Amps, bass amps and combos, owned by Fender, SWR Service
- Synaptic Amps
- Synergy Amps, Huntington Park, CA
- Taguchi Omnidirectional Speaker System
- Tec-Amp, Germany
- Tech Soundsystems, Germany
- Teixeira Amps
- TeleGun Amps
- Telling Amplification, UK
- Tennessee Amplifier Company
- Tenor Audio, Canada, most expensive amp
- Texas Tone
- THC Amps, Germany
- THD Electronics
- Thomas Amplification
- 3rd Power
- ThunderFunk
- ThunderTweak Amplifiers
- Todd Sharp Amps
- TomasZewicZ Amps
- Tone Junkies Amps
- Tone King Amps, Huntington Park, CA
- Tone Lizard Amps
- ToneMonk Amps
- Tone Revival Guitars
- Tone Tubby Speakers & Cabinets
- ToneSpeak Speakers
- Tonic Amps, Redwood City, CA
- Torres Engineering Amps
- Top Hat
- Trace-Elliot Amps
- Ken Fischer's Trainwreck Amps, these are hideously expensive, fanpage of Trainwreck Amps, Ken, P.O. Box 261, Colonia, NJ 07067, Trainwreck Amps
- TrickFish Amps, Simi Valley, CA
- T-Rex-Engineering Amps, Denmark
- Trillium Amps, amps in fine cabinets
- TRM guitarcabs, Tim Metzger
- TruTone Custom
- Tube Depot, kits, parts
- Tubes Ville
- Twister Amps
- Traynor Amplifiers, Yorkville is selling tube amps, self-biasing with auto-matching tube circuit
- Trinity Amps, Canada
- TubeGlow Amplification
- TubeTec Amps
- TubeThomsen Amps, Germany
- Tubewonder Amps, Sweden, Zagray Amps
- Tungsten Amplification, Fender tweed clones, formerly Hammond Resurrection
- Two Rock Amps, Rohnert Park, CA, K & M Analog Designs, Bill Krinard makes Dumble clones
- Tyler Amps
- Tyrant Tone
- Ugly Amps, Torrance, CA
- Ulbrick Sound, Canada
- Uncle Alberts
- UnionJack Amps
- Univox
- Ultrasound Amps, Dean Markley
- V Boutique Guitar Cabinets, Buena Park, CA
- The Valve Amps, Valve Amp, Italy
- ValveTech Amps, ValveTech Amplifier Company, Hayseed Amps
- ValveTrain Amps, tweed, Tortured Tweed
- Vampower, UK
- Vanderkley Amp, Netherlands, bass amps
- Vanous Tech Amps
- VanWeelden Amplification, Netherlands
- Vaughn Skow
- Ventura Valve Amplifiers, Ventura, CA
- Vero Amps, very expensive furniture cabinets
- Verellen Amplifiers, Seattle, WA, tube guitar and bass amps like Ampegs
- VHT Amps, China, now owned by AXL, check out Fryette Amps insteadnd Amps, Fender blackface clones
- Victoria Amps
- Victory Amps, UK
- Vintage 47 Amps, San Pedro, CA
- Vintage Sound Amps
- VintageTone Amps, boutique Fender clones at reasonable prices
- Vistalux Amps, Fender tweed clones
- Vogel Guitars Amps, Germany
- Voodoo Amps, modifications for other amps too
- VOX Amplifiers, only the UK-made tube ones are good, their rest sound like crap. Vox Showroom, Vox Special Page, buy JMI Amps instead of VOX Amps for the real UK made ones
- VT Amps
- VVT Amps
- Walker Amplification
- Walker-Labs
- Wallace Amps, Marshall clones
- Waller Amps, 1100 watts
- Wangs Amps, China boutique amps
- Warehouse Speakers
- Warwick Bass Amps, Germany
- Wathen, cryogenically treated vacuum tubes, Wathen Deep Cryo
- WattGrinder Engineering, non-glass tubes
- Wavelength Audio
- Jimmie D. Webb Amps, solid state, Deceased: April 20, 2004
- Webb Amps
- Weber Speakers by Ted Weber, made in the USA
- Welagen Amps, Dumble clones
- WEM Watkins Electric Music, UK
- Winfield Amps
- Wizard Amplification, Canada
- WoodCross Amps
- Walter Woods Amps,
- Walter Woods Amps, I'm not sure about his address so call first trying these: 82054 Solano Ave, Indio, CA 92201, (760)347-7099, (619)347-7099, or at 78395 Sterling Lane, Palm Desert, CA 92211, (760)772-7952, or at Box 7534, Van Nuys, CA 91409, (619)347-7099, other companies are now making clone amps based on Woods' concepts of a small solid state bass amp, Eden, Ampeg, Mesa Boogie, and others are now making "me-too" products
- Kerry Wright, amp and cabinet recovering, custom cabinets, custom covers, Fullerton, CA, (714)403-8493
- Xits
- Yellow Cab Amplification
- Zeppelin Design Labs
- Zilla Cabs, UK
- ZT Amplifiers, Berkeley, CA, China
- Zvex
- Zwengel Amplifiers
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Guitar Amplifiers, Harmonica Amplifiers and Boutique Amplifiers
- Boutique Amplifier Links: WeberVST's Links
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Amptone Links for Guitar Amps
- Boutique Amplifier Links: GuitarNotes's Links
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Adam's Amps Tube Amplifier Links
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Ultimate Guitar Gear, an information center for many great amps and pedals, they organize "Toneparties"
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Guitar Amplifiers, Harmonica Amplifiers and Boutique Amplifiers
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Plexi Palace, dealer with lots of pictures on their website, proof that a few ultra-wealthy collectors are hoarding all the guitar amps, driving up prices
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Amp Archives
- Boutique Amplifier Links: VintageAmp.net
- Boutique Amplifier Links: jedistar's listing of amps
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Ampwares
- Boutique Amplifier Links: Amp companies that have gone out of business
Guitar Articles
- Up-selling, technique of selling additional products to customers who only planned to buy one
- Pricing Strategies - Skimming, must read!! Fender does this every time they replace a product line with a new line
- HomaHelp, marketing digital database of concepts, models, and analytical processes
- Perceived Value, marketing definition
- Brand Equity, marketing definitions
- Luxury good, marketing jargon definitions
- Everyone wants to be an axeman by Chris B.
- Some Things to Look for in Purchasing a Guitar by Chris B.
- George Gruhn Newsletter, interesting commentary
- Golden Era instruments by George Gruhn
- Collectors vs. musicians by George Gruhn
- Are vintage guitars really good investments? by George Gruhn
- Which vintage instruments offer the best utilitarian value? by George Gruhn
- Investing in fretted instruments by George Gruhn
- Investing in vintage instruments vs. the stock market by George Gruhn
- The critical factors in placing dollar values on instruments by George Gruhn
- The rise of forgeries, from re-necked five-string banjos of the 1950s to today's high-dollar fakes by George Gruhn
- What distinguishes a collectible instrument -- which is possibly a good investment -- from a good used instrument by George Gruhn
- "Another important thing is to have as many guitars as you can afford, because if you smash one you might wanna one left ... to smash." - Steve Metal
- Information: How Guitars Work
- Information: How is an electric guitar different from an acoustic guitar?
- Information: Acoustic Guitar: Looking, Buying, and Keeping
- Information: Guitar Glossary
- Information: How The Devil Builds Guitars; photos on automated CNC guitar factories
- Information: Ed Roman's Rants on Guitars
- "Cost Cutting, What Does It Really Mean"
- "Magazine Reviewers (Can you trust them?)"
- "Overpriced Guitars"
- Information: "How An Instrument Earns Its Reputation"
- Information: "Differences Between Handmade and Factory Made Guitars"
- Information: "Buying a High Quality Guitar or an Inexpensive Guitar"
- Information: "Collecting America's Musical Heritage"
- Les Paul interview: "... So I realized that many people hear with their eyes."
- Commentary: "Guitar Acquisition Syndrome" by Walter Becker
- Commentary: "Avoiding Gear Acquisition Syndrome" by Brett Ratner
- Commentary: "The emperor's new guitars" by Cintra Wilson
- Commentary: "This Old Guitar" by Jimmy Brown
- Commentary: "Cool Guitars" by John Morris
- Commentary: More Thoughts on Musical Equipment by Jason, check out Jason's Other Commentaries
- Commentary: "Mr. X - a former music store employee discusses Gibson Les Pauls"
- Commentary: Vintage Guitar Market Madness by Dan Yablonka
- Article: While My Guitar Gently Reaps
- Exhibition: The Museum of Musical Instruments
- Dangerous Curves, The Art of the Guitar
- Guitar World, The 10 Most Expensive Guitars
- Chinery Collection at the Smithsonian Institution
- Exhibition: Smithsonian Institute: From Frying Pan to Flying V: The Rise of the Electric Guitar
- Exhibition: Ed Roman's Personal Guitar Collection
- Exhibition: National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
- Exhibition: Roger Jackson Guitar Collection
- Exhibition: Chasing Guitars
- Exhibition: Joe Bonamassa's Home Collection, Welcome to Nerdville, Los Angeles, CA
- Exhibition: Songbirds Guitar Museum, Chattanooga, TN
- Commentary: "Equipment Articles"
- Information: "Guitar Collections", in case you're wondering where all those expensive boutique and vintage guitars are going, they're being hoarded by collectors - not musicians. This wealthy crowd is responsible for driving up the prices as they sell the same gutiars back and forth to each other. Just because a dozen people are foolishly willing to waste thousands on guitars, that doesn't mean everybody else should be shut out of the market for quality guitars. They are also the bullies on the internet newsgroups as they flame and harrass anyone who dares critisize any of their investments. The most famous Japanese guitar collectors are Akira Tsumura and Mac Yasuda who have accumlated huge collections of extremely expensive guitars.
Guitar Straps
- Souldier, reproduction Jimi Hendrix guitar straps
- Aaron Shear Classic Guitar Strap
- Couch Guitar Straps, my favorite, Signal Hill, CA, sweatshop free, vegan
- Copperpeace Straps
- Get'm Get'm Wear, 8282 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90046, (323)662-0275
- El Dorado Straps
- Action Custom Straps, genuine snakeskin guitar straps
- Jodi Head Straps
- LeatherSmith Designs, Personalized Leather Guitar Straps
- MedinaMade Straps
- Moody Leather Straps, Valencia, CA
- MosbyGuitars Straps
- GetM GetM, fuzzy straps
- NECK-UP Guitar Support
- EFEL Guitar support
- Italia Leather Straps
- Guitar Holder
- Chantal Cordey Guitar Straps
- Kat Straps
- Snake Skin Straps
- Al Bane for Leather
- Jaykco Guitar Straps
Guitar Covers
- AxeGlove
- Oasis Guitar Armor
- Guitar Facelift removable, reusable vinyl guitar overlay
- Guitar Jacket
- MosbyGuitars Covers
- Scratch Pad USA
- Fender in the 1950's and 1960's used to include with each new guitars a plastic cover that would fit on the back of the guitar to protect the finish from scratches. Fender also used to include covers for their Telecasters and Stratocasters to cover the bridges; CBS' costcutting cut those covers and Fender today does not include them with their new guitars, not even on their supposed "reissue" guitars; only their custom $hop guitars have them.
Guitar Picks
Guitar Parts



Maybe the best guitar in the world, best playing, best sounding, and the one that will have the most personal value to you is made by ... you. You can buy the parts, get an instruction book and put it together yourself or find a technician at any of the dealers listed on this page and they can assemble it for you. You can also consider buying an imported guitar that uses solid woods and swapping out the pickups, hardware, and tuners. The quality of many imported guitars, some of which use solid woods such as Ash and Alder, is quite good and you can buy a Yamaha or Korean made Samick guitar (in any of the dozens of rebaged incarnations) for much less than a neck or pickup by an aftermarket manufacturer. The entire parts aftermarket was created for musicians who modify import guitars. Beware that the marketing terms for pickups - "hot", "cool", "bluesy", "vintage" - are completely meaningless unless they refer to how they were made with what materials. Beware that many "American" parts are actually OEM'ed from Asia: Gotoh (Japan), Kent Armstrong (Korea), and others; you have to research the brands so you won't end up replacing the "cheap" imported pickups and hardware with more "cheap" pickups and hardware - from the same manufacturer. Many musicians leave their "trophy prize" guitars at home and use them only for recording and take their modified import guitars on the road for shows. Good places to find parts are guitar shows where usually every dealer sells parts left over from guitars they've modified. You can easily modify an imported guitar such as Sam Ash's "Carlo Robelli" guitars with better pickups. You can go to a dealer of "cheap" imports such as Highland Park Music and Pawn (listed above) or FirstCash.com and buy a Gibson, Fender, MusicMan, etc., clone guitar by Jay Turser and swap out the pickups and hardware with USA made parts and you'd have a pretty decent guitar.
- Information: Guide to Guitarbuilding
- Information: Modding the Tele, Tips, Ideas
- Information: The Complete Telecaster
- Information: Wood Comparisons
- Information: Warmoth Wood Comparisons, Alder, Ash, Basswood, Bubinga, Goncalo Alves, Koa, Figured Koa, Korina, Lacewood, Mahogany, Maple, Spalted Maple, Padouk, Poplar, Redwood, Rosewood, Spruce, Walnut, Wenge, Zebrawood
- Information: American School Of Lutherie
- Information: Guild of American Luthiers
- Article: How electric guitar pick-ups work?
- Guitar Shows: Vintage Guitar Guitar Shows
- Guitar Shows: NothingNewMusic Guitar Shows
- Aero Instrument
- All Parts
- Amalfitano Pickups
- AmpToneLab MIDI pads for guitars
- AngelTone Pickups
- Arcane Pickups, North Hollywood, CA
- Atlantic Quality Design S-Tuner, guitar tuner that fits inside Strat jackplate
- Axe Decals, guitar wraps
- Axe Wrap Guitar Skins, guitar wraps
- Babicz, string anchors, vertically adjustable neck, torque reducing split bridge, by Jeff Babicz
- Badass Bass Bridges by Leo Quan, also sold by Performance Guitar, (323)883-0781
- Joe Barden Pickups
- Bare Knuckle Pickups, UK
- Benedetto Pickups
- Bartolini Pickups, he makes pickups for dozens of other brands
- Benson Pickups
- Best Guitar Parts
- Bigsby Guitars, Bigsby vibrato/tremolo
- Black Cherry, bridges
- Boogie Body Guitars, hand made guitar bodies and necks by Lynn Ellsworth, used by Eddie Van Halen for his guitars
- Bravewood Guitars, UK, pre-aged parts
- Breezy Ridge Instruments Accessories
- Callaham Guitar Parts, trem blocks
- Paul and Adrian Chandler Guitar Pickguards, G&L pickguards
- Clear Tone Strings, Burbank, CA
- ColoRiffic Pickguards
- Crel
- CurtisNovak
- Curt Mangan Strings
- Custom Guitar Saddles by Bob Colosi, bone
- CustomLuthier
- Custom Shop Parts, wood pickguards for archtop and acoustic guitars
- DarkMoon Pickups
- David Allen Pickups, San Bruno, CA
- Dead Mint Club, Japan, reissue project of real vintage parts
- Decoboom Pickguards
- DiMarzio
- DR Strings
- Earvana Nuts
- Earthworks Audio Products - Studio Recording Microphones Preamplifiers by famous record engineer Rich Tozzoli, great acoustic guitar microphones for studio and stage
- Eastman Strings
- Ed Roman
- Elderly Instruments Guitar Parts, used parts and Bigsby Tremolos
- Elixir Strings
- EMG Pickups, Rob Turner also designs pickups for Fender, Steinberger, PRS
- Ernie Ball
- Evans Guitar Pickups
- Evertune, bridges
- Exotic Woods Company
- Fender, sells guitar and bass parts thru dealers
- Fishman
- Flametone Pickups
- Flatt Guitar, engraved wood pickguards
- Floyd Rose, the best guitar bridges ever, also the ugliest
- Lindy Fralin Pickups
- Fretwave Guitar Frets, a curve in the first and second fret for the G and B string respectively, used in Yamaha's Frank Gambale Signature guitar
- FU-Tone, bridges and springs for bridges, a noticable upgrade
- G7th, capo
- Gavitt Wire & Cable Co, Inc., cloth wrapped wire makers for original Fender guitars
- Gemini Pickups
- George L's Pickups, guitars and steel guitars
- Gerlitz
- G&L Guitars, sells guitar and bass parts direct
- Glendale Guitars, Fender clones and parts
- GM Vintage Restorations
- GoldBug Products
- Graph Tech Guitar Labs
- Greasy Groove
- Gregg Rogers Guitars, sells "aged" parts so you can build your own "relic" guitar, distressed amber lacquer bodies and necks
- GSR Guitars, kits, vinyl decals and repositionable films
- Guadalupe Custom Strings, Guadalupe Custom Strings, Guadalupe Custom Strings
- GuitarBuilder Guitar Center Parts, parts, kits
- Guitar Electronics
- GuitarFetish
- Gotoh
- Grandaddy Tunamatic for Acoustic Guitar, individual string adjustments for acoustic guitar, directly retrofits into a typical saddle slot on an acoustic guitar, give intonation flexability that you cannot get with fixed saddle
- Guitar Guard, covers
- Guitar Notes List of Parts Links
- Guitar Parts Resource
- Guitar Parts USA
- GuitarTrader, sells Fender guitar and bass parts
- GMW Guitarworks custom refinishing and paint jobs
- Hammon Engineering - DarkStar Pickups
- Harmonic Design Pickups
- Harper's Guitars, custom guitar bodies
- Headway Music Audio, UK, acoustic pickups
- Highlander Pickups
- Hipshot Products, B-Benders, Trem-Setter, tremolo bridge, Baby Grand bridge, Trilogy Multiple Tuning Bridge, videos by Hellecaster guitar great Will Ray
- Historic Makeovers, refinishing
- Hoag Optical Guitar Systems, optical pick-ups for guitar
- Inzane Decals
- ilitch Electronics, Camarillo, CA, hum canceling systems
- Inzane Skins, guitar wraps
- IronGear Pickups
- JLD Guitar Research & Development
- Jescar Fretwire, steel and gold fretwire, EVO Ni-Free Gold fretwire
- Jim Wagner Pickups, Soulsbyville, CA
- JW Custom Pickguards, metal pickguards
- K&K, acoustic guitar transducers, pickups, microphones
- Kahler International, Kahler Tremolo
- Kahler Parts, Kahler Tremolo, KahlerParts
- Jim Kaufman Sunrise Pickups
- Kent Armstrong Pickups, made in Korea, OEM'ed by Fender, G&L
- Klein Pickups
- Kiesel Guitars, Escondido, CA, formerly Carvin, sells guitar and bass kits and parts direct
- Kluson, replacement tuning posts
- Knucklehead Strings
- Kuwabara Pickups, Sayoko Kuwabara former Fender Custom Shop
- LaBella Strings, electric, acoustic, bass, classical, flamenco, acoustic folk, early instruments, orchestral, world
- Lace Music, Don Lace Pickups, Cypress, CA, the OEM for Fender Guitars
- Lawing Musical Products, Zexcoil pickups
- Bill Lawrence Pickups, CA
- LightWave Optical Bass Pickups
- Lollar Guitars Pickups, also rewinding services
- Lust For Tone
- Lute Holes
- L.R. Baggs Pickups
- Wolfe Macleod's WolfeTone Pickups
- MannMade USA
- Manlius Pickups
- Mastery Bridge
- McIntyre Pickups
- Melody Custom, aging and refinishing guitars
- Merlin 5 Products, 2572 E Fender #B, Fullerton, CA 92831, (714)879-7508,
has provided the music industry's leading guitar builders with the finest hardware made. Fender, Jackson, Rickenbacker, G&L, Yamaha, and countless other small builders have benefited from his vast experience in the machining world. He has worked with the best, Grover Jackson, Gary Kahler, and Wayne Charvel just to name a few. Bill Gerien's company makes hardware and CNC products and tooling for G&L guitars
- Mighty Mite
- MJ Tele, Mark Jenny Relic Finishing
- mLaval Guitar Parts
- Mojo Musical Supply
- Mojo Pickups, UK
- MosbyGuitars Shelton Bender, leather guitar covers
- Moses Graphite, necks
- Musicians Friend, sells lots of parts
- Musicmaker Kits, build your own guitar-lute
- Musikraft, licenced by Fender
- Neely Guitars Pickups
- NordStrand Pickups, Yucaipa, CA
- North Coast Music, the entire catalog of replacement parts currently offered by Hofner for the "Beatle" basses
- OC Duff Pickups
- Optima Strings, Germany, most expensive strings, 24K strings
- Parts is Parts
- Pearlworks, does the "custom inlays" for PRS
- Pickguard Heaven
- PickGuardian
- Pickguard Planet
- Pickup The World Pickups, David Enke
- Plek, Plek, guitar set up
- Porter Pickups
- Portland Guitar, Portland, MA, split saddle bridges for acoustic guitars
- Pribora Pickups
- Q-Parts Knobs
- Q Pickups
- Q-Tuner Pickups
- RadioShop Pickups, UK
- Railhammer Pickups
- Raw Vintage
- Razor Pickups, their stacked humbucker and vintage 55 pickups are great
- ReRanch Guitar finishing supplies
- Rickenbacker Guitar Parts, Santa Ana, CA
- Rio Grande Pickups
- RMC Pickups, Berkeley, CA
- Roadhouse Pickups
- Robinson Inlays by Larry Robinson, he does work for other brands' "custom shops"
- J.M. Rolph Pickups
- Ed Roman Guitars, exotic wood guitar bodies and necks
- Ron Ellis Pickups, Carlsbad, CA
- Roxy Guitar Finish
- Rvinyl, guitar wraps
- Saga Music Kits
- Schaller, pre-BBE maker of G&L pickups and tuners
- Schatten Design, acoustic pickups
- Schertler
- Schuyler Dean Pickups
- Seymour Duncan Pickups, their Antiquity pickups are their best
- Shadow Electronics, pickups, Shadow Electronics
- ShepTone Pickups, San Marcos, CA, famous for Gibson Les Paul pickup reproductions
- Schuyler Dean Pickups, their Apex Humbuckers look like G&L Z-coil pickups
- Sims Custom Shop, swirled guitar finishes
- SimS Custom LED Fret Markers
- Sigler Music Online, prewired pickguards
- SkinYourSkunk.com Guitar Skin, guitar wraps
- SlapRing by Gerald Reese
- Paul Reed Smith Pickups, instead of buying an overpriced PRS guitar, buy an import like the Korean PRS guitars and replace the pickups with these
- Snagg security devices to help you recover your stolen instruments
- Soest Guitar Parts
- Sperzel
- StellarTone tone control
- Stephens Design Pickups
- Stetsbar
- Stratosphere Parts
- John Suhr Pickups, former Fender custom shop master builder
- Fernandes Sustainer
- Sustainiac Pickups, endless sustain at any volume, nice useful harmonics, really opens up your playing, because you spend less time trying to get the sound and more time on what you want to play
- Stewart-MacDonald's Guitar Shop Supply, acoustic and solid body guitar kits, parts, pickguards, and guitar making tools
- Sustainiac
- SwitchCraft, jacks, used by G&L Guitars
- TnT Custom Guitars, Bakersfield, CA, parts and accessories, custom builds
- TnT Custom Guitars on Reverb.com
- Terrapin Guitars Pickguards
- Tesla Pickups
- THG Knobs, custom exotic wood parts
- Thorn Custom Inlay, San Fernando, CA
- ThroBak Pickups
- Tone Guard, metal pickguards, Sherman Oaks, CA
- Tone Pros, bridges, Oakdale, CA
- Tronical, self tuning for guitars
- Torres Engineering Parts
- TronicalTune, robot guitar tuners used by Gibson
- TrueTemperament Necks, tempered guitar necks
- Twilight Guitars, custom loaded pickguards
- USA Custom Guitars
- VanDykeHarms, wood pickguards
- Van Zandt Pickups
- VegaTrem, bridge
- Vibro-Tek DoubleWhammy vibratos
- Villex, pickup boosters, Westminster, CA
- Vintage Vibe Guitars Pickups
- Vinyl Guitars, guitar wraps
- Virgil Arlo Pickups, pickup boosters, Westminster, CA
- Warmoth
- WCR Pickups by James Wagner, Soulsbyville, CA
- WD Music Products, sells clear plastic pickguards
- Trevor Wilkinson Design Associates, Wilkinson guitar hardware
- Patrick Ralph Wilkins, Van Nuys, CA, guitar painter for Tom Anderson Guitars, Sadowsky Guitars, Pensa-Suhr Guitar, Zion Guitars, Norm's Rare Guitars, Gibson West Guitars, Ibanez Guitars, Yamaha Guitars, 48th Street Music Guitars, PRS Guitars, and Tobias Guitars - you didn't think all those companies actually painted their own guitars, did you? haha! you didn't think that import companies actually had the capability to make "show" guitars or their "flagship models", did you? you don't get the guitar business!
- WolfeTone Pickups
- ZexCoil Pickups
Guitar Cases and Gig Bags
Guitars are supposed to come with matching caes, but dealers like Guitar Center sell the cases seperately from the guitar so the guitar price looks lower. Gibson, Fender, Martin, Taylor, and many others are supposed to come with cases. I don't care what some guitar show dealer told you, guitar cases are NOT collectable. Unless you have some special custom guitar that requires a special custom case or you spent a huge amount of money on a custom guitar and custom case, guitar cases don't increase in value as vintage guitars do. If you buy a Gibson guitar, get yourself an Epiphone case. If you buy a Fender guitar, get yourself a Fender Squier case. It seems to me that some Fender Squier hard plastic cases are actually bigger and better than Fender's USA tweed cases which eventually get tattered. Tweed and tolex cases look nice when they're new, but later they get ripped and ratty looking. Guitar cases receive the brunt of abuse when traveling and eventually they get mildew and smell bad. Gig bags are for transporting your guitars to gigs you can drive to, guitar cases are for transporting your guitars to gigs you have to fly to or travel long distances to. If you have lots of money, go ahead and get the case made the by manufacturer of the guitar. Tweed and tolex USA cases do look cool, but nobody really cares about "vintage" guitar cases when buying a "vintage" guitar.
Guitar Amplifiers Articles
- Proof that a few ultra-wealthy collectors are hoarding all the guitar amps, driving up prices: Carl Nielson's collection, Flying Fred's Marshall collection
- Article: "Today's Prices Are Bargains, Amp Prices Then and Now"
- Article, Rod Elliott: "The Whys And Wherefores of Guitar, Bass and Keyboard Amps"
- Article: "Amplifier Myths, Fantasies, and Facts"
- Article: "Tubes, Mechanics & Mystique"
- Article: "Survival Tips for Tube Amps" by R. Aspen Pittman/a>
- Article: "Glossary of Speaker Terms"
- Article: "The Cool Sound of Tubes"
- Article: "Is Point-to-Point Better Than PCB?"
- Article: "Amp Talk, One Mans Opinion"
- Article: "A Beginner's Guide to Buying a Guitar Amp"
- Article: "Top 10 Things to Consider When Buying a Guitar Amp"
- Article: "Buying a Guitar Amplifier"
- Article: "Tube vs. Solid-State Amps"
- Article: "Basics of Tube Amps for Beginners"
- Article: "Musical Instrument Tube Amp Building, Maintaining and Modifying FAQ"
- Article: "Buying a guitar amplifier ..."
- Article: "TUBES VS TRANSISTORS
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- Article: "Tube Amp FAQ"
- Article: "Power Attenuators"
- Article: "How we get that Groove Tubes sound"
- Article: "Harry Kolbe's article about attenuators"
- Demos: North Carolina Amp Fest Videos
Guitar Amplifiers Covers
BOUTIQUE GUITAR PEDALS: Boutique Guitar Effect Pedals
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Once you've heard the real effect pedals, you'll realize that the digital modeling amps and programs don't match the originals. The most essential pedal that every guitarist ought to use is the Roland noise gate. Most pedals are made out of cheap plastic parts, assembled in China and are ridiculously overpriced. Unfortunately once Asian manufacturers realized that customers will buy on perceived value, they too overcharge as high as the market can bear. Some boutique pedals stand out because they are made by single builders, have metal boxes, are hand made, and priced for exclusivity. I like the "Zoom GM200 Modeling Guitar Multi-Effects Processor", but it is so cheaply constructed and so ridiculously overpriced with ridiculous cosmetics (fake metal case, really cheap parts), I can't recommend it for serious touring. Buy used pedals and let somebody else take the hit of initial depreciation. Perhaps the Apple iPad guitar amp modellers will replace pedals.
Guitar Pedals
- Article: Guitar Effects FAQ
- Peterson Tuners, these are the world's best instrument tuners because they are accurate to 1/10 Cent, very expensive
- Korg DT-7, has the Buzz Feiten tuning system.
- Roland Boss NS-2, Roland's noise gate is probably one of the most essential pedals ever made. It effectively eliminates noise and hum of the input signal while preserving the original sound's tonality. Natural attack and envelope remain unaffected by suppression of the noise components
- Argiriadis Analogue Electronics
- Analog Man
- Atlantic Quality Design
- Amt Electronics
- Alex Saraceno Dirty Boy
- BackLine Engineering
- Blackstone Appliances
- Catalinbread
- Creation Audio Labs, clean boost pedal
- Deacy Amplifier, UK, designed by Queen guitarist Brian May, made by Knight Audio Technologies
- Death By Audio
- Earthquaker Devices
- eBow, Electronic Bow for Guitar
- Effectrode, tube effects
- Electro-Harmonix
- Eventide
- Fulltone, tape echo
- FuzzHugger
- Jetter Gear Pedals
- GuyaTone
- Hiwatt, Echo-Theremin, Custom Tape Echo
- Ibanez, makes the world's most famous distortion pedal, their TS9
- Jacques Stomp Boxes
- JangleBox used by Roger McGuinn of The Byrds
- LehLe, Germany, switches
- LunaStone Pedals, Denmark
- Malekko Heavy Industry
- Carl Martin, compressor is used by Will Ray of the Telecasters
- Roger Mayer Effects and North Star Audio
- Maxon, Japan, original designer and builder of Ibanez effects pedals
- Metasonix Synthesis Modules
- Metal Pedals
- Metasonix, makes the world's smallest tube amp and boutique pedals
- Metasonix Synthesis Modules
- Morley Pedals, Tripler, a handy switching device that allows one guitar to be routed to three amplifiers, George Lynch pedals
- Muzique.com, Jack Orman's pedal modifications
- Neunaber
- TonyKrank Orbit Electronics, delays, by Tony Krank
- Owen Electronics
- Petty John Electronics
- Pocket Rockit
- Prophecy Sound, Australia
- Radial Engineering - Radial JD7 Injector Signal Distribution Amplifier for more than one amp
- Retro-Sonic
- Robert Keeley, their Katana Boost is a clean boost
- Prosound Communications
- Roger-Mayer, UK
- Visual Sound, their Jekyll & Hyde Ultimate Overdrive pedal is used by the NY band "The Strokes", they also make power adapters which take up less space than other makes
- Sam Ash Fuzzz
- Sanyo Pedal Juice, defunct
- Smokey Amps
- Smokey Amps
- Strymon, Westlake Village, CA, formerly named Damage Control Pedals
- StudioDevil
- Temple Boards, Canada
- TEN Effects by Ryan Dunn
- Tone Bakery
- Trailer Trash Pedal Boards, lighted pedal boards
- True Strobe Tuners from Sonic Research
- V-Stack
- VoodooLab
- Wampler Pedals, Commerce, CA, best most affordable Klon clones
- Walrus Audio
- WayHuge
- WMDevices
- Zinky
- Zvex, handmade pedals, beware of conterfiet ones, favored by UK guitarists Danielle Dax and David Knight-Arkkon (see bands page to find out who they are), more popular in the UK than in USA
- After years of testing, my favorite effects pedals were Korg's Toneworks Hyperperformance Products: Hyper Distortion Pedal 104ds, Dynamic Echo Pedal 301dl, all of which were ridiculously overpriced and are discontinued.
Guitar Cables
- John Dunlavy: "Cable Nonsense"
- Roger Russell, McIntosh labs engineer: "Speaker Wire-A History"
- Article, Forbes Magazine: "Sizzle Sizzle Sizzle"
- Article, NY Times: "NY Times Rekindles Cable Debate with 'Circuits' Story"
- Article, Rod Elliott: "I Am As Mad As Hell!"
- Article, Rod Elliott: "The Truth about Cables, Interconnects & Other Stuff"
- Article, Caelin Gabriel: "Why Power Cables Make a Difference"
- Alessandro Instrument Pro, sells 20-foot double-balanced, directional, solid functionally-perfect silver conductor instrument cables for $1,999.95, and 30-foot cables for $2499.95, insane prices for pseudo-science
- George L's Cables, insane prices for pseudo-science
- MUSIC INTERFACE TECHNOLGIES, Leonard Sanchez's company at the last NAMM convention demonstrated their new Ripcord guitar and bass cables which are audiophile quality. He also sells GAS Terminator amp to speaker cables. Use these for serious studio recording. Unfortunately, their advertising for these products is full of pseudo-science.
- Planet-Waves Cables, Circuit Breaker cables are interesting, but how hard is it to turn your amp to "standby" mode ?
- Solid Cables
- SwitchCraft, made in the USA
- JPS Labs
- SnapJack Cables, La Mirada, CA
- Divine Noise, Portland, OR
Guitars Dealers in Southern California
GUITAR: LOS ANGELES GUITAR DEALERS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GUITAR DEALERS, REPAIR SHOPS
There are two easy ways to find a good dealer near to you. The first way is to go to Yelp, enter your zip code, and search for "music instruments" in the Local Listings. The second way is to go the websites for the biggest manufacturers, namely Fender and Yamaha, and look for dealers in your area. Any dealer that carries Fender or Yamaha probably carries other brands' products too. Search the Fender website for dealers close to you that sell their "Custom Shop" guitars.
- Commentary: "Chain Stores"
- Alliance of Independent Music Merchants
- NAMM Foundation Music Store Directory
- Gbase Store Directory
- 13th Street Guitars, Huntington Beach, CA
- AB Music Studios, 19171 Magnolia Street Huntington Beach, CA 92646, lots of used gear
- Advanced Musical Electronics, 8665 Venice Blvd, West Los Angeles, CA 90034
- A & V Pawn Shop and Guitars, 3323 E South St, Long Beach, CA 90805, (562)630-3055
- Allegro Music, 2703 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Redondo Beach, CA 90278
- All In One Guitars, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
- All In One Guitars on Reverb.com
- All In One Guitars on Youtube
- All Stage Equipment, 958 N Main St, Orange, CA 92867, (714)532-3129
- Almighty Guitar Planet, 1822 E Main St, Ventura, CA 93001, (805)648-4633
- Alva's Music Store, 1417 W. Eighth St, San Pedro, CA 90732, (310)833-3281,
- Alva's Music on Reverb.com
- Amendola Music, 1692 Centinela Ave, Inglewood, CA 90302, (310)645-2420
- Scott Amendola
- Scott Amendola on Berkeley Music
Amp Shop & Bass Exchange, 4870 Lankershim, North Hollywood, CA, 91601, (818) 386-5500
Bass Exchange on Reverb
Amuse Music, Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Analogue Haven, 252a S Main St, Pomona, CA 91766-1642, (909)622-4556
Angel City Guitars, Woodland Hills, CA
Angel City Guitars on Reverb.com
Angel City Guitars on Youtube
Audio Dynamix, Santa Ana, CA, portable PA systems for schools
Audio Rents, Burbank, CA, home studio recording equipment rentals
Audio Intervisual Design, West Hollywood, CA
Baxter Northup Music, 14534 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, (323) 872-0756 lots of sheet music
Beach City Pawn, 17827 Beach Blvd, Huntington Beach, CA 92648, (714)848-8402, Beach City Pawn
BedRock LA, Echo Park, CA 90026
Bellflower Music Center
Bellflower Music Center on Youtube
Benning Violins, 11336 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604, (818)762-1374, nice people, sells violins and lutes since 1953, staff is very talented, Hans Benning and Eric Benning are world famous violin makers,
review,
email
Bertrands Music, see locations
Bertrands Old Town Music, Pasadena, CA
Best Buy, a few entry level instruments
Big City Music, 11106 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604, (818) 985-0855
Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230, (310) 398-2583, sells used guitars, teachers have great credentials
Boulevard Music on Reverb.com
Brown's Whittier Jewely & Loan, 7029 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA 90602, (562)945-9724
California Vintage Guitar & Amp, 5244 Van Nuys Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA (N/101 frwy), (818)789-8887
owned by former partners of Norman's Rare Guitars, these people are much friendlier than Norman's, they sell Eastman hollowbody jazz guitars made in China
California Vintage Guitar & Amp on Gbase.com
California Vintage Guitar & Amp on Reverb.com
Cassells Music, San Fernando, CA, Cassell's seen in Wayne's World movie
Robert Cauer Violins, Los Angeles, CA
Caveman Vintage Music, Los Angeles, CA
C.B. Hill Guitars
Charles Music, 421 N Glendale Ave, Glendale, CA 91206, (818)242-6597, George Sallustio sells Fender Mexican guitars and amps
Classic Guitars International, Santa Barbara, CA
Coast Sonic, Carlsbad, CA, specializing in boutique pedals
Coast Sonic on Reverb.com
Corona Music Center, 1191-B Magnolia Ave, Corona, CA, 92879, (909)898-2630
Cottonwood Music Emporium, Costa Mesa, CA
Dan Yablonka, Laguna Beach, CA, The Wind Cries Yablonka
Dan Yablonka on Gbase.com
Dave's Island Instruments, Lakewood, CA, steel drums, ukuleles, island instruments
Doctor T's Tone Factory & Del Mar Lutherie, Del Mar, CA
Dietz Brothers Music, 240 S Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 103, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, (310) 379-6799, Pat Dietz's little shop sells a few acoustic guitars
Downey Music Center, 7444 Florence Ave. Suite #H, Downey, CA 90240
Dustys Guitars, Oceanside, CA
Eden Guitars, El Monte, CA
Eric's Guitar Shop, Van Nuys, CA
Electronic Music Box, 5632 Van Nuys Blvd #128, Van Nuys, CA
Electronic Music Box on Reverb.com
Empire Guitar Works, Hemet, CA
Fantastic Musical Instruments, 789 E Washington Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91104, (626)794-7554, cellos, upright bass
Folk Music Center, 220 Yale Avenue Claremont, CA 91711, (909)624-2928
Charles and Dorothy Chase sell acoustic and ethnic instruments from around the world --wind, string, and percussion
Folk Music Center on Reverb.com
Ford Electronics, Buena Park, CA, cables, electronic parts
Fret House Guitar Shop, 309 N Citrus Ave, Covina, CA 91723, (626)339-7020, sells lots of acoustic guitars
Fret House Guitar Shop on Reverb.com
Fret House Guitar Shop on Youtube
Fretted Americana, Calabasas, CA
Future Music, 5112 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042, (323) 344-0029 Future Music
Gear Orphanage, Agoura Hills, CA
Gerards Guitars, 19641 Ventura Blvd, Tarzana, CA 91356, (818)344-8482
Gibson Guitar / Baldwin Piano Showcase, 8801 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069, (310)300-2369
GLS Audio, Garden Grove, CA
GoDps Music, Newbury Park, CA, sells Sawtooth guitars
Golden State Guitars, Anaheim, CA
Grayson's Tune Town, 2415 Honolulu Ave, Montrose, CA 91020, (818)249-0993, Dennis Grayson sells high end
Grayson's Tune Town on Reverb.com
Guadalupe Custom Strings
Guadalupe Custom Strings,
Guadalupe Custom Strings
Guitar Center, has many stores nationwide.
Guitar Center on Youtube
Guitar Center Sessions on DIRECTV, performances at their stores
Music Arts, GC's horn stores, see website for locations
Woodwind & Brasswind, GC's online horn store
Music 123, GC's other online store
Hermes Music, GC's Hispanic, Latino, Spanish language store
GC Vintage Guitars, Hollywood, CA vintage showroom
GC Platinum, very expensive guitars
Lyons Music, GC's recorder instruments
Guitar Center Pro
Used Guitar Center, used gear at their stores
Guitar Center Lessons, at their stores
Workshops In Store Events
Guitar Center Repairs, repairs services at their stores
The End of Guitar Center.
Guitar Collector, Orange, CA
Guitar Doctor, 18171 Euclid St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708, (714)437-9607, down the street from Guitar Center Fountain Valley
Guitar Finders Intl, Riverside, CA
Guitar Groomer, by Avi (Avishay) Shabat, West Hills CA
Guitar Merchant, 7503 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, CA 91303, (818)884-5905
Guitar Safari, San Pedro, CA 91303
Guitar Salon International, Santa Monica, CA, sells lots of expensive acoustics, mostly classical, sells out of a residential house so it's by appointment only
Guitar Salon International videos on YouTube
Guitar Salon International on Reverb.com
Guitars San Diego, San Diego, CA
Guzheng Shop, Irvine, CA, Chinese music
Guzheng Lessons
Harbor Music, 1024 S. Pacific Coast Hwy., Redondo Beach, CA 90277, (310) 406-3090
Harvard Street Music Exchange, Hemet, CA
Hi-Line Music, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Hollywood Guitars, 931 E 11th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
International House Of Music, 821 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90014, (213)628-9161, sells Mexican guitars and accordians
Jim's Music Center, 14061 Newport Ave, Tustin, CA; 14120 Culver Dr, Suite J, Irvine, CA 92604, (949)552-4280
Jim's Music Center on Reverb
Jim's Music Center on Youtube
Imperial Vintage Guitars, Burbank, CA, Orange, CA, Sherman Oaks, CA
Imperial Vintage Guitars on Gbase.com
Imperial Vintage Guitars on Reverb
Imperial Vintage Guitars on Youtube
Instrumental Music, Thousand Oaks, CA
Instrumental Music on Reverb.com
Jammin' Jersey Music & Pro Audio, 8743 Tampa Ave, Northridge, CA 91324, (818) 993-9969,
sells replacement speakers, p.a. & pro audio gear, amp parts, guitar parts, used pedals, large drum selection
Jammin' Jersey Music & Pro Audio on Reverb
James Hood Guitar Repair, 4901 El Camino Real, Ste H, Carlsbad, CA 92008, (760) 313-3439, by former emplolyees who worked at BuffaloBros Guitars
Johnny Thompson Music, Monterey Park, CA, closed
Johnny Thompson Music on Youtube
JRR Shop, 2166 Michelson Dr., Irvine, CA 92612, (949)553-1022
JRR Shop on Reverb
JRR Shop on Youtube
Kiesel Guitars, Escondido, CA, formerly Carvin Guitars
Kiesel Guitars and Basses in stock
Kiesel Guitars Gallery
L.A. Guitar Sales, 9028 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069, (310)246-1933
L.A. Guitar Sales on Reverb.com
La Habra Music, 1885 La Habra Blvd, La Habra, CA 90631, (562)694-4891
La Habra Music on Reverb
Los Angeles Classical Guitars, 1341 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106, Ph (626) 529-0147
Los Angeles Classical Guitars on Reverb
Los Angeles Bass Works, Los Angeles, CA
LA Vintage Gear, 2407 Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA
LA Vintage Gear on Youtube
Long Beach Guitar Repair,
Brian Stewart, 2930 E 7th Street (7th & Orizaba), Long Beach, CA, (562)621-9000, some of the same guys from the old World Of Strings, Long Beach Guitar Repair, World of Strings, a must visit place, World of Strings
Lovies Guitars, Westlake Village, CA
Lovies Guitars on Reverb
Marina Music Center, 4564 Centinela Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066, sells lots of guitars and amps, effects, they make and repair fine Greek instruments such as the bouzoukis, baglamas, tzouras,ouds and saz
Marini Music, Alhambra, CA 91801, (626)289-0241, formerly known as Pedrini Music, the now closed small music store chain,
John Marini email1,
John Marini email2
CLOSED: Marini Music Alhambra, CA
CLOSED: Pedrini Music La Crescenta, CA
CLOSED: Pedrini Music Orange, CA
McCabes Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA, sells lots of acoustics
Mike's Guitar Parlor, Hermosa Beach, CA
Mo's Fullerton Music Center
Mo's Fullerton Music Center, 121 N Harbor Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92832, (714) 871-1805 lots of sheet music
Fullerton Music Center on Reverb
Morey's Music Store, 4834 Woodruff, Lakewood, CA 90713, (562)420-9532
Motherland RhythmArt, Inglewood, CA, specializes in importing a wide variety of professional quality authentic African musical instruments and art
Music & Arts,
see website for many locations
Music Boutique, Pomona, CA
Music Lab, 4805 Main St, Yorba Linda, CA 92886, (714)970-8282, Mark Wein sells guitar lessons, call before going there
Neal's Music, Neals Vintage, Huntington Beach, CA, (714)901-5393, internet order only now
Neal's Music on Reverb
Norman's Rare Guitars, 18969 Ventura Blvd, Tarzana, CA 91356, (818)344-8300, Norman email, only talk to Lemmo for their best deals
Norman's Rare Guitars on Reverb.com
Norman's Rare Guitars Youtube videos
Norman's All Guitar Network Youtube videos
Michael Lemmo Youtube videos
Angela Petrilli Youtube videos
Sarah Rogo Youtube videos
Brandon Soriano Youtube videos
Sal Gutierrez Youtube videos
Old Style Guitar Shop, 510 A N Hoover St, Los Angeles, CA 90004, (323)660-5700
Old Style Guitar Shop on Yelp
Opus Music of South Bay, 2219 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90501, (310) 618-1185, sells lots of acoustic guitars
Perfect Circuit Audio, Burbank, CA
Pete's Music & Guitar Shop, 1742 S Euclid St, Anaheim, CA 92802, (714) 778-2548, sells junky old beat up Japanese guitars that have been modified, lots of pointy guitars
Perfect Guitar Repair, 7033 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA 90602, (562)755-9526
Performance Guitar Shop, 3621 Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90068, (323)883-0781, sells custom made guitars and lots of guitar parts, Performance Guitar Shop
Phantom48, Costa Mesa, CA
ProAudioLand, Torrance, CA
Pro Music Rentals and Sales, Orange, CA
ProSound and Stage Lighting, Cypress, CA
Redlands Guitar Shop, Tom Benedickt, (951)317-3349
Renson's Guitar Shop, 11632 Moorpark St, Studio City, CA 91602, (818) 761-4766, Norik Renson's guitar shop
Rosa Musical Instrument, El Monte, CA
Rosa Musical Instrument
Sam Ash Music, see website for locations, their Hollywood location across the street from Guitar Center Hollywood has outrageously expensive guitars
Used Sam Ash
Sam Ash Direct on Reverb.com
Sam Ash Guitars of Distinction
Sam Ash Service Centers
Sam Ash Music Lessons
Sam Ash Rentals, rent gear
Sam Ash Leasing
Sam Ash Monthly Giveaways, contests
Sam Ash at Ebay.com
Sam Ash at Amazon.com
Sam Ash Blogspot
Seth Mayer Guitar Repair, Sherman Oaks, CA
Soest Guitar, 760-D N Main St, Orange, CA 92868, (714)538-0272
South Pasadena Music, South Pasadena, CA
Speaker Repair Pros, Garden Grove, CA
Stein On Vine, 848 N Vine, Hollywood, CA 90038, (323)467-7341
Steve Zook Guitars, 15542 Alden Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92647, (714)894-1183
Still KickIn Music, Culver City, CA
Styles Music on Reverb
Strings Connection, 716 Deep Valley Dr, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
Studio Instrument Rentals
Hollywood, CA; New York, NY; Nashville, TN; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Miami, FL
SIR Studios rents guitars and amps for touring, rehearsal and production rooms, trucking and storage, staging, audio, video, lighting
Studio-637, 637 Cypress Avenue, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254, (310) 372-8218
Styles Music, 777 E Foothill Blvd, Pomona, CA 91767, (909) 621-0549, sells lots of Samick, Korean, and imported Asian clone guitars - replace the pickups with USA ones you'd have a great guitar
Styles Music on Reverb
Squid Music, 10742 Beach Blvd, Stanton, CA 90680, (714) 826-4000, used instruments
Squid Music on Reverb.com
Techno Empire, Burbank, CA
Techno Empire on Reverb
Time Warp Music, Venice, CA
Time Warp Music on Reverb
Tone Merchants, 5419 Cleon Ave, Suite N, North Hollywood, CA 91601, (818)505-0391 Ed Yoon sells extremely expensive boutique guitars and amps
T.R. Guitars, 2650 "M" Walnut Ave, Tustin, CA 92780, (714) 731-6262, custom building and repair shop for stringed instuments
Trilogy Guitars, 143 Culver Blvd, Playa Del Rey, CA 90293, (310)305-7577, classical, Flamenco, acoustic
True Tone Music, 714 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404, (310)393-8232
True Tone Music on Reverb
True Tone Music on Youtube
Upland Loudspeaker Service, Upland, CA
Upscale Audio, La Verne, CA, hifi stereo dealer with lots of tubes
Ventura Music, 11268 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604, (818)761-9669
vintageguitarcollector eBay dealer, Ventura, CA
Vintage King, Burbank, CA, guitars and pro-studio gear
Virtual Sound Technology, Arcadia, CA, repair shop for electronics
Voltage Guitar, Toluca Lake, CA
Wescott Guitar, John Wescott is the guitar tech to the stars
William's Piano, 113 W Las Tunas Dr, San Gabriel, CA 91776, (626)287-7348, sells cheap guitars made in China and Yamaha pianos
Wild Cat Guitars, Escondido, CA
Wild Cat Guitars on Reverb
Wild West Guitars, Pasadena, CA
Wild west Guitars on Gbase
Wild west Guitars on Reverb
Wild west Guitars on Youtube
Wally World Music, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362, (805)496-8322
Guitars Dealers Outside of Southern California
- Alliance of Independent Music Merchants
- GBase.com, inventory and directory of many dealers
- Reverb.com, inventory and directory of many dealers
- eBay.com, only buy from sellers that you can drive to
- Google Shopping
- Yahoo.com Shopping
- SellThisGuitar.com
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- Acoustic Music, Guilford, CT
- AJs Music, Las Vegas' oldest music store
- AllMusic Inc, Plainview, NY
- Alpha Music, Virginia Beach, VA
- American Musical Supply - AMS, Oakland, New Jersey, great guitar photos
- Amp Factory, Lynnwood, WA, sells Jet City Amplification
- Andertons, UK
- Andertons on YouTube
- Andy Babiuk's Fab Gear, Fairport, NY
- A Plus Guitars, Bridgeport, WV, lots of photos
- Archtop.com, Seattle, WA
- Armand Music Shop, Canada
- Armand Music Shop
- Arthurs Music, Indianapolis, IN
- A Sharp Music Co, Renton, WA
- Austin Guitar House, Austin, TX
- Bananas at Large, San Rafael, CA
- Bass Central, Fern Park, FL
- BCR Music
- Berkeley Music, Berkeley, CA
- Beyond Eleven, Milwaukee, WI
- Bizarre Guitar, Reno, Nevada, great website, lots of photos
- Black And White Blues, San Clemente, CA
- Blues Angel Music, Pensacola, FL
- Boston Guitar Works, lots of boutique gear
- Brians Guitars, Hamden, CT
- B Street Music, San Mateo, CA
- Carter Vintage, Nashville, TN
- Carter Vintage on Youtube
- Chelsea Guitars, New York, NY, inside Chelsea Hotel
- Chicago Music Exchange
- Chicago Music Exchange on Youtube
- Nathaniel Murphy on Youtube
- Chuck Levins, Wheaton, MD
- Coda Music, England UK
- Cosmo Music, Canada
- CowTown Guitars, Las Vegas, NV
- Cream City Music, Brookfield, WI
- Creter Guitar Shop, Jonestown, PA
- Daves Guitar, La Crosse, WI, large selection of custom shop guitars, lots of pictures
- Denmark Street Online, UK
- Destroy All Guitars, Fuquay Varina, NC
- Diamond Strings, Rochester, NY
- Distinctive Guitar, Milwaukee, WI
- Dreamboat Guitar, Japan, lots of pictures
- Dream Guitars, Weaverville, NC
- EastCoast Music
- Eddies Guitars, St. Louis, MO
- Ed Roman Empire, Las Vegas, NV, one of the most incredible guitar stores in the world!!
- Elderly Instruments, Lansing, MI
- Elderly Instruments on Reverb
- El Diablo Amps, Minneapolis, MN
- E.M. Shorts Guitars, Wichita, KS
- Emerald City Guitars, Seattle, WA
- Emerald City Guitars on YouTube
- Fender Official Reverb Shop, Los Angeles, CA
- First Quality Musical Supplies, Louisville, KY
- Freedom Guitar, San Diego, CA
- Fuller's Vintage Guitar, Houston, TX
- Jorma Kaukonen Fur Peace Ranch small selection of Jorma Kaukonen guitar accessories
- Garrett Park Guitars, Annapolis, MD, great photos
- Garys Guitars, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Gear 4 Music, UK
- Gelb Music, Redwood City, CA
- Gliga Violins, Las Vegas, NV
- GravityMusic Gear, Denver, CO
- Gravity Strings, St. Louis, MO
- Grinning Elk, Douglasville, GA
- Gryphon Stringed Instruments, Palo Alto, CA
- George Gruhn Guitars, Nashville, TN, one of the first used guitar dealers, writer for magazines, designed guitars for Guild and Tacoma, but he sells every guitar as being "rare"
- Guitar Solo, San Francisco, CA, classical, acoustic
- Guitar Adoptions, Wonder Lake, IL, lots of photos
- Guitar Archeology, Arnie Christensen
- Guitar Avenue UK, great site
- Guitar Crazy, Portland, OR
- Guitar Emporium, Australia
- Guitar Hangar, Brookfield, CT, great site
- Guitar Hotline, Fishers, IN
- Guitar Galleria, subsidiary of L&M Music, Chattanooga, TN
- Guitar Gallery, White House, TN
- Guitar Gallery of New England
- GuitarGuitar UK, UK, lots of photos
- Guitar Maniacs, Tacoma, WA, Kurt Cobain shopped here
- Guitar Resurrection, Guitar Rez, Austin,TX, lots of pictures
- Guitars And Effects, Maryland
- Guitars Etc, Longmont, CO, great website
- GuitarSale.com, South Bend, IN
- Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney, TX
- Guitar Shoppe, Laguna Beach, CA
- Guitar Shoppe on Reverb
- The Guitar Shoppe on Youtube
- Guitar Showcase, San Jose, CA
- Guitars N Jazz, very expensive jazz guitars
- Guitars International, Cleveland, Ohio, one of the world's largest dealers in fine new individually handcrafted (nonproduction) classical and flamenco guitars
- Guitars West, CA
- GuitarVille, Seattle, WA
- Guitar Xpress, Tulsa, OK
- Haight Ashbury Music, San Francisco, CA
- Haight Ashbury Music on Reverb
- Harvard Street Music Exchange, Hemet, CA
- Heights Guitars, Toledo, OH
- H.I.Guitars, Japan, lots of pictures
- Hill Country Guitars, Wimberley, TX
- House Of Guitars, NY
- Humbucker Music, Rossville, GA, lots of boutique amps
- Hyper Guitars, Japan
- International Vintage Guitars, New Orleans, LA
- Ishibashi Music Co.,Ltd., Japan,
- Ishibashi Music Co.,Ltd.
- Ishibashi-Music
- Ishibashi Music Corporation on Reverb
- Jay Rosen, Emeryville, CA
- Indoor Storm, Durham, NC
- Interstate Music, New Berlin, WI
- J-Guitar, Japan
- JH Guitars, West Chester, PA
- John Hornby Skewes, UK, sells Vintage Guitars by Trevor Wilkinson
- Jimmy Wallace Guitars, Garland, TX
- Jims Guitars, Baltimore, MD
- Killer Used Gear
- LA Music, Canada
- Lark Guitars, San Antonio, TX
- Lark Street Music, Teaneck, NJ
- Lawrence Lynch Violins, Address: 5 Blackwell Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10 2DP, ENGLAND, Tel: 44 (0)1562 823584 Fax: 44 (0)1562 753385, Makes: Violins, Violas, Cellos; Sells: Violins, Violas, Cellos, Bows, Double basses, Electric violin/viola/cello/double basses Instrument accessories, Books, Insurance; Services: Appraisal, Repairs, Restoration, Bow rehairing, Rental, Mail order
- Lemur Music, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675, classical bass and cello
- Lovies Guitars, Lakeside, CA
- Luthiers Access Group
- Machine Head, UK
- Make'n Music, Chicago, IL, high-end guitars, lots of pictures
- Mandolin Brothers, Ltd., Staten Island, New York, huge selection of jazz archtops, lots of pictures
- Maple Street Guitars, Atlanta, GA
- Marc Silber Music, Berkeley, CA
- Marks Guitar Loft, Lee, NH
- Marshall Amplification, UK
- Mars-Guitar Japan, Japan, amazing pictures
- Mas Hino NYC, NYC
- Matts Music, Weymouth, MA
- MaxGuitar Store, Netherlands, good photos
- Melodee Music, Potomac Falls, VA
- Mighty Fine Guitars, Lafayette, CA
- Mikes Music, Ohio
- Mojo's Music, Edwardsville, IL
- Murch Music, Canada
- Music Depot, Hayward, CA
- Music Dispatch, sheet music, songbooks, instruction, books, videos, software
- Music Emporium, Lexington, MA
- Musicians Friend, Westlake Village, CA
- Musicians Friend Private Reserve Guitars
- Musicians Friend Youtube videos
- Music Gallery, Highland Park, IL, lots of pictures
- Musical Instrument Reclamation Corporation, Franklin, TN
- Music Source 123, Wildwood, IL
- Musicians Outlet, Palm Desert, CA
- Music Store, Germany, world's biggest music store
- MusicStoreLive, South Burlington, VT, lots of pictures
- MusicStoreLive on Youtube
- MusicToyz, Falmouth, ME
- Music Villa, Bozeman, MT
- Music Zoo, NY, lots of pictures
- MyRareGuitars.com, Michael Robinson's Rare Guitar Collection
- NE Music Center, Dickson City, PA
- NewTube, NY
- New Kings Road Vintage Guitar Emporium, UK
- North Coast Music, "Beatle" instruments
- Northwest Guitars Bellevue, WA
- NStuff Music, Pittsburgh, PA, great photos and videos
- Oklahoma Vintage Guitar
- Olivias Vintage Guitars, Illinois
- Peach Guitars, UK
- Peach Guitars Youtube videos
- Peach Boutique Youtube videos
- Performance Music Center, Woburn, MA, photos
- Pick Of The Ricks, NJ, sells Rickenbackers, Vox Amps
- Planet Bass, Maple Grove, MN
- Portland Guitar, Portland, MA
- Portland Percussion, Portland, MA
- Prymaxe Vintage, Garwood, NJ
- Real Guitars, San Francisco, CA
- Rebel Guitars, Sylacauga, AL
- Reissue Guitars, Millersport, OH
- Replay Guitar, Tampa, FL
- RiffCity Guitar Outlet, Saint Joseph, MN
- Retro Guitar, St Keene, NH
- Rick Falkiners Guitar Centre, Australia
- Rics Vintage Guitars, Australia
- Road Worthy Guitars, Bloomington, Indiana
- Rock N Roll Vintage, Chicago, IL
- Rock Stars Guitars, UK, USA
- Rogue Guitar Shop, Bend, OR
- Rosetti, UK
- Rudys Music, Rudy Pensa is a New York dealer that has lower prices than many Californian dealers, makes his own custom guitars
- Rumble Seat Music, Nashville, TN, expensive vintage gear
- Russo Music, NJ
- Sam Ash Music, see website for locations,
- Sam Ash direct
- Seaford Music, Seaford, DE
- Schoenberg Guitars, Tiburon, CA
- Shelton's Guitars, Frederick, MD, nice photos
- Shoreline Music, Durango, CO
- Sigler Music
- 920D Custom guitar parts, preloaded pickguards
- 920D Custom on Reverb
- Sixx Gun Music, Las Vegas, NV
- Sound Source, Chico, CA
- SoundPure, Durham, NC
- South Valley Vintage Amps, Morgan Hill, CA
- Steilberg String Instruments, Louisville, KY
- Station Music, Germany
- Steves Music, Canada
- Strings West, Sperry, OK, Larry Briggs
- Strings Shop, Thailand
- Strings Shop on Youtube
- Studio Gears, Temecula, CA 92591
- Sweetwater, Fort Wayne, IN,
- Sweetwater Guitar Gallery
- Sweetwater Gear Exchange
- Sweetwater on Youtube
- Sylvan Music, Santa Cruz, CA
- Synergy Guitars, Boca Raton, FL
- Thrill On The String, Japan
- Thomann Music, Germany, sells Harley Benton guitars
- Top40 Guitars, Santee, CA
- Top40 Guitars on Reverb
- Top Gear Guitar, La Mesa, CA
- Tundra Music, Canada
- Tundra Music on Reverb
- Tweed Hut, Vacaville, CA
- Twelfth Fret Guitarists' Pro Shop, Canada
- Ultra Sound Amp Sales, NY, rentals, very expensive amps
- Upfront Guitars, Hopkinton, MA, lots of G&L guitars
- Vegas Guitars, Las Vegas, NV
- Victor Litz Music Center, Gaithersburg, MD
- Vintage And Rare Guitars, London, UK
- Vintage Instruments, Philadelphia, PA
- Vintage Guitars, Stockholm, Sweden
- Vision Guitar, San Jose, CA
- Walkin Japan, Japanese dealer that has a huge selection of archtops
- Watermelon Music, Davis, CA
- WildWood Guitars, Louisville, CO, great photos
- WildWood Guitars on Reverb
- Willcutt Guitars, Lexington, KY, great photos
- Willcutt Guitars on Reverb
- Willies Guitars, great photos, guitar tech by Dave Blackshear
- Wolfe Guitars, Jupiter, FL
- Wolfe Guitars on Reverb
- Woodsy's Music, Kent, Ohio, great photos
- Woodwind & Brasswind, South Bend, IN
- Yamano-Music, Japan
- York Music Shop, York, PA
- Zzounds, Midland Park, NJ
- Zzounds on Reverb
Drums
DRUMS: Clear Plastic
These are clear acrylic Crystalite drums, that is clear plastic drums, reminiscent of the Pearl set used by Led Zepplin, Pearl Crystalites or Ludwig Vistalites. They sound incredibly good.
DRUMS: Electronic
- ZenDrum, portable electronic drum
- DrumTech
- PintechWorld
- formerly known as Visu-Lite, acrylic electronic cymbals and accessories, these are much better than the Roland electronic drum cymbals
- ToonTrack, software modelling
DRUMS: Indian
DRUMS: Handcrafted
Practice Rooms, Rehearsal Studios
- Guitar Center Rehearsal Studios, the best practice rooms in Southern California
- Center Staging, Burbank, CA
- BedRock LA, Echo Park, CA
- Royal Rehearsal, Commerce, CA
- Diamond Mine Studios, Monterey Park, CA
- Backline Rehearsals
- Uncle Studios
- Elevated Audio
- Champion Site + Sound, Los Angeles, CA
- Third Encore
- Stage1 Music, Simi Valley, CA
- Stage One, Laguna Hills, CA
- Wall of Sound Studios, Anaheim, CA
- Bomb Shelter Rehearsal Studios, Westminster, CA
- D.O'B. Sound Rehearsal Studio, Santa Fe Springs, CA
- Backstage Cafe, Burbank, CA
- some people just use this place to jam once a while
- Holloway Productions, Santa Fe Springs, CA
Guitar Practice Accessories
Fretmarkers
fretboard stickers that are supposed to help you learn
Fingerweights
- FingerWeights,
- finger weights that are supposed to help you, who knows if they work? Andrew Geller with Fingerweight Corporation emailed "If you take into account the sizing issue and weight variations, you would need 2 sets of Flyers in each weight category for each finger size. Conceptually the products are similar. Operationally they are worlds apart." The Filipina woman who demonstrates this product at the NAMM shows is amazingly beautiful and charming; she gave me an "extra" one
GUITAR LESSIONS ONLINE
Miniature Guitars
Pianos
Guitar Magazines
Music Magazines
Guitar Links
Links
- American Guitar Society, Los Angeles Valley College Music Department, meetings at 8pm on the first Saturday of each month, Valley Glen, CA
- International Guitar Research Archives, Cal State Northridge
- Guitar Foundation of America, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA
- Association of Fingerstyle Guitarists, Wildomar, CA
- Aaron Shearer Foundation, foundation led by Classic Guitar industry leaders who studied or were colleauges of Aaron Shearer
- Les Paul Foundation
- Ed's World of Guitars links
- For Bass Players Only, Phoenix, AZ
- Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), Phoenix, AZ
- Vintage Guitars & Basses UK, old guitar catalogs
- Guitar Wheel
- Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner,
- free computer based tuner that some say is better than the most expensive tuners, there are dozens of websites that have it online for free download
- Femmuse Female Musicians and Artists Network, Los Angeles-based female musicians network
- The Solo Guitarist Network, links to solo guitarists, luthiers, composers
- Stringed Instrument Makers of Southern California, Mission Viejo, CA
- Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Felix Bullock, Matthew Elgart, classical guitar summer camp, 100 N Hill, Pasadena, CA 91106, (626)683-3355
- Korean American Guitar Society, (213) 820-0788, SC Korean American Guitar Soceity email
- InterFocus Music / GuitarConsultant.com
- great magazine, lots of good magazines
- Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions
- great magazine, lots of good articles
- Touch-Style Territory
- interest to guitarists and bass-players who wish to explore touch-style play
- Prepare to Study Music
- Cam's Riffs Guitar website
- Museum of Pop Culture
- Whole Note
- GuitarLounge.com
- learn to play famous riffs
- Audio Engineering Associates
- restores old microphones orginally made by RCA
- Blue Book of Guitars
- acoustic and electric
- BuildYourGuitar.com
- Googalies
- cleaning cloths
- Olsen Audio Microphone Windscreens
- miniMusic music software for the Palm Pilot PDA
- Ragtime Automated Music
- acoustic instruments controlled by MIDI
- Countryman Headset Microphones
- tiny mics
- FreePlay
- Visual Music Tone Painter
- Olav Torvund's Guitar Chord diagrams
- Olav Torvund's Ear Training for Guitarists
- Record-Producer.com
- "e-Books for the Home Recording Studio owner who wants to go Pro"
- Have Music Will Travel
- dealer of jukeboxes. Located where the original Fender guitars was located.
- SixStringSoul
- Dan Kern's blog
- GuitarSeek
- tons of guitar related links
- Dave's Guitar Resource Page
- great website!! tons of guitar related links
- Foul Mouth Shirts
- offensive t-shirts to give your band an "edgy" image
- Guitar Lessons, Tips and Tablature
- BandNameMaker.com, web site the generates potential names for your band.
- Chord Chart
- Vintage Hofner
- Digital Music Notebook by Yamaha, sheet music
- House Ear Institute (HEI)
- Rainbow Piano Technique, Learn the piano using colors
- GuitarInternational.com
- Super Audio Center
- EMM Labs
- Guild of American Luthiers
- theguitarsherpa
- VintageGuitarAndBass.com
- Music Animation Machine
- Kampko Vintage Sheet Music Shoppe
- African Soukous Guitar Tutorials by Huit Kilos
- GuitarInstructor videos on Youtube
Recording Sound Isolation Booths and Cabinets
Guitar Chairs
Guitar Stands
Guitar Lessons
Gibson Lessons by Steve Krenz
Gibson Lessons by Steve Krenz
Gibson Lessons by Steve Krenz
Carousel Publications Chord Charts, Fingering Charts, Music Theory and History Charts
Guitar Radio Show
Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
Materialism causes Depression! Affluenza is bad for you. The guitar magazines are very demoralizing and depressing because they constantly feature and praise extremely overpriced expensive gear that very few people can afford. Even if you were rich, paying thousands for gear is hard to justify. Guitar magazines exist in an "unreal" world where $2,000 gear is sold as "entry level" and guitars around $1,000 are "bargains." Materialism leads to anger and makes people feel like "losers", insecure, inadequate, self-hating, and damages self-esteem. Turn your back on materialism and realize that you can buy high quality gear avoiding the "name" brands and buying off-brands. Cancel your subscriptions to guitar magazines and let them know that you are sick of them catering to yuppie collectors who buy overpriced gear as hip wall decorations. Buy only USED equipment and let someone else take the "hit" of initial depeciation - besides, 2nd hand speakers sound better than new ones because they've already been broken in. Let the magazines sell their "bigger and more expensive is better" philosophy to a shrinking readership. You can buy an imported Yamaha or Korean made guitar, swap out the pickups with USA made Seymour Duncans, and have a great sounding guitar. Ibanez guitars are actually the most playable import guitars with the "fastest" fretboards, best tremolos, quality construction, and quality hardware. You can buy high quality custom made in the USA gear by G&L. Fender/Gibson/Rickebacker/Marshall are targeting the boutique markets with outrageous prices, so screw them.
Guitars: Musical Merchandise?
Why Is Everyone So Cranky? by C. Leslie Charles
Positional good definition on wikipedia
Why Is Everyone So Short-Tempered? by Karen S. Peterson
Museum of Making Music
5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008, (760) 438-5996
NAMM's museum of musical instruments.
review
Ernesto Bueno at Guitar Center Brea
Ernie is the in-house guitar technician, former employee of Fender instruments. Take your Fender guitars there for tech support. Ernesto Bueno at Guitar Center Brea
The primary source of employment for musicians nationwide, established 31 years. Jobs and resumes are updated online daily.
PROTECT YOUR HEARING
REPAIRS: Keyboards, PA, Recording
- David Segimoto, 1270 Lincoln Ave #1000, Pasadena, CA 91103 (626)794-0052, he can fix anything Japanese and electronic
- GPS Electronics, George Tomasich, 16549 Leffingwell Rd, Whittier, CA 90603, (562)902-0579, pro-audio repair and service, factory authorized service center for most major brands such as SWR and Groove Tubes
Music Pad Pro, tablet-shaped PC with a fast screen. You can download and display music on it, you can even turn pages with a footswitch. It's got a touchscreen and a storage capacity of 10,000 pages of music.
Orange County Guitar Circle
founded in 1967 to celebrate and promote the music of the Spanish classical guitar in Orange County, California, and surrounding communities. They hold 9 recitals a year at Chapman University in Orange, on the third Saturday of each month (except December) between September and June.
Intelligent Devices, Inc. - I.Q. Intelligent Equalizer
I.Q. learns the sonic spectrum of a take, track or song mono or stereo then constructs a complex filter that matches the spectrum of the new material to that of the original reference material.
Antares Auto-Tune
Most of the pop stars that get on MTV, MTV's TRL, and all the media attention are no-talent acts hired for their looks and dancing ability, not musical talent. So when these "acts" are not lip syncing and have to do a live show, they use this device. The Antares Auto-Tune does realtime auto pitch correction to make sure that whatever comes out of the mouths of the phoney pop stars into the microphones comes out in tune. It's impossible for even the best talented singers to breathe, dance widly, gyrate on stage, and sing on key. The MTV eye candy pop stars simply would not have careers at all if it was not for this machine.
Melodyne Auto-Tune
Most of the pop stars that get on MTV, MTV's TRL, and all the media attention are no-talent acts hired for their looks and dancing ability, not musical talent. So when these "acts" are not lip syncing and have to do a live show, they use this device. The Melodyne Auto-Tune does realtime auto pitch correction to make sure that whatever comes out of the mouths of the phoney pop stars into the microphones comes out in tune. It's impossible for even the best talented singers to breathe, dance widly, gyrate on stage, and sing on key. The MTV eye candy pop stars simply would not have careers at all if it was not for this machine.
SynchroArts VocALign Project & TITAN
Most of the pop stars that get on MTV, MTV's TRL, and all the media attention are no-talent acts hired for their looks and dancing ability, not musical talent. So when these "acts" are not lip syncing and have to do a live show, they use this device. VocALign Project is an editing tool which will automatically synchronise two audio signals at the touch of a button. VocALign massively speeds up audio synchronisation tasks and increases the quality of results. It's impossible for even the best talented singers to breathe, dance widly, gyrate on stage, and sing on key. The MTV eye candy pop stars simply would not have careers at all if it was not for these programs.
GUITAR: Smartwood
GUITAR: Pickup Rewinding Services
- John Suhr, former Fender Custom Shop Master Builder, has his own custom pickup rewinding service. Authentic Pickup rewinding, Hot Rods, RWRP, hum canceling, hand wound and vacuum potted to exact vintage specs of any year or hotter if you'd like. "You haven't heard a good single coil until you've heard a hand wound single coil." Fender coils are preferable, humbuckers also. $20 plus shipping per coil. Leave message for John at (909)471-2334 if you are interested
GUITAR AMPS: AMPLIFIER COVERING
The late Sam Hutton, former Fender Custom Shop amp designer, started his own business of custom amplifier covering. His son Don now continues his late father's work. Call him at (714)529-7531 and mention John Suhr (pronounced SIR) and me Andrew sent ya.
GUITAR AMP: Repair Shop
Billy Zoom Music, 760 N Main St # L, Orange, CA 92868 (714)639-2200, Sonic Zoom,
AMP TUBES
ARS Electronics, 7110 DeCelis Place, POB 7323, Van Nuys, CA 91406 (818)997-6279
"THE TOP 10 REASONS THAT USED GEAR IS BETTER THAN NEW GEAR" by Nate
- 10. Used gear has more character
- 9. Groupies like used gear better
- 8. Gear used for pictures = famous gear!
- 7. You won't get stressed out when you lend your gear to friends
- 6. Used gear has a story to tell
- 5. Customer tested!
- 4. Use the money you save to buy more used gear!
- 3. Used gear isn't like life - you always know you what you're going to get
- 2. If you don't like it, you can auction it off online
- and the number one reason that used gear is better than new gear...
- 1. Three words: price price price!
Royer Labs Microphones
David Royer teamed up with Rick Perrotta, former President and co-founder of the prestigious Matchless Guitar Amplifier Company, and together with studio owner Rafael Villafane and musician/marketing director John Jennings, formed Royer Labs, a California based company dedicated to the development and production of high quality microphones and transducer elements
INSTRUMENTS: PRE-COLUMBIAN OF NORTH AMERICA
percussion & woodwind maker, Guillermo Martinez (714)631-7851. He even has his own CD of native American music available
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