In the early 1990s Mario Beauregard started guitar building with luthier Robert D’Crivouir, while working at Tom Lee music in Vancouver. A few years later he moved back home to Quebec where with the help of a grant from  “Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec” he was able to attend the Roberto-Venn school of luthery where he met Ervin Somogyi in one of his master classes. He was later invited to study with him, which represented a turning point in his career.During weekdays he would work and study with Ervin Somogyi and during the weekends he would drive up to Taku Sakashta’s shop to learn about archtops. He also went on to work as the designer in the R&D department of Lasido for a period of 4 years. Mario is presently a one-man operation in the small town of St-Denis-sur-Richelieu near Montreal, Quebec and continues to act as a consultant in the industry.