Aaron Andrews graduated from the Roberto-Venn School of Lutherie in 1992. He set up his first shop in a rental garage, and began designing, building, repairing, and restoring fretted stringed instruments. Aided and abetted by 13 years of employment as a staff guitar repairman at Seattle's Trading Musician, he gained an extensive knowledge of the inner and outer workings of a vast array of instruments. His focus is on building acoustic and archop guitars and he makes several models which are a distillation of the best design ideas drawn from the classic instruments. He also makes electric guitars.