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Erickson

Gary Erickson started building instruments in 1968, at his childhood home in Newport Beach, CA.  In 1981, Gary founded Erickson Design Associates, at first located in Costa Mesa, CA. and then relocating to several different facilities located in Fountain Valley, California. EDA has been an industrial/product design studio specializing in electric guitar and bass design, sound and acoustical engineering, as well as professional recording technical services and systems design. In addition, EDA provides product design engineering and computerized product CAD services. Erickson Guitars is one of the many product lines that Erickson Design Associates has produced throughout the last 36 years.

Source: Erickson Guitars website (21 April 2017)

Electromuse

Electromuse was an American brand of musical instruments made from the 1930s to 1950s. While best known for their paddle shaped lap steel guitars, Electromuse also offered Spanish acoustic-electric guitars and amplifiers. Electromuse tube amplifiers were typically made by Valco and often came as part of a package deal which included a color matched lap steel guitar. The Electromuse Eye-Beam pickup  used on their lapsteels was also sold as a sound-hole pickup for acoustic guitars.

Source: Wikipedia - Electromuse (9 April 2017)

EBow

The EBow was invented by Greg Heet in Southern California. The EBow is a hand held string driver which when held over a guitar string generates an electromagnetic field that drives the string to produce endless sustain. The first working model (the Energy Bow) was developed in 1969 and was built into the guitar. The hand-held version appeared in 1974 and was officially launched as the EBow in 1976 at NAMM in Chicago. It was at this NAMM show that Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir bought three EBows. Greg Heet had grown weary of the effects business and put his efforts into his other interest including his pretzel cart business. This meant that although the EBow became a popular gadget with players, they were difficult to find during this period. 1983 saw the introduction of a new EBow model, which was updated again in 1989. In 1998 the PlusEBow was launched with a new harmonic mode and a blue LED.

Source:Ebow catalog 1989

Duvoisin

Duvoisin Guitars was founded in 2006 as a boutique guitar maker. By 2017 the Duvosin team included Jacques & Gilles Duvoisin who design and make the instruments, Gerald Huguenin the electronics R&D consultant and Pierre Camille who leads finance and marketing. Duvoisin offer electric guitars and basses as well as pickups and bridge saddles.

Source: Duvoisin Guitars website

Dommenget

Boris Dommenget is a German guitar maker offering electric, acoustic and archtop guitars as well as custom made pickups. On leaving school in 1977 Dommenget started a 3-year apprenticeship with Hopf - learning each step of guitar making. After finishing his training at Hopf, Dommenget made a lot of guitars and basses from 1980 - 1985 while living in Wiesbaden. He moved to London from 1985 to 1988 where he worked as a furniture restorer,  guitarist (with the Bollock Brothers) and sound engineer. An injury in 1988 ended his career as a guitarist and he opened a rehearsal studio in Hamburg - the Altona Rehearsal Studios. Dommenget set up a workshop in the studio for reparing guitars and equipment. The guitar business grew rapidly and he moved the workshop another three times eventually ending up in an old farmhouse where he runs his handmade electric guitar business.

DeTemple

Michael DeTemple grew up in Los Angeles and became a professional guitar, banjo and mandolin player in the 1960s and 1970s. He recorded and toured with Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Neil Young amongst others. During the 1980s DeTemple began a family and turned his hand towards instrument building, restoration and repair. Many thousands of guitars have passed through his hands and DeTemple has used this experience to recreate the very best aspects of the 1950s classic Stratocasters, Esquires and Telecasters by making his own custom versions. DeTemple Guitars now produces handmade custom electric guitars, custom pickups, custom bridges and saddles. DeTemple electric guitars are played by musicians such as Dean Parks, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Colin Hay.

Source: DeTemple Guitars website (16 March 2017)

DeMont

DeMont provides boutique & custom instruments and parts. They specialize in restoring vintage Japanese guitars as well as bringing them back to life with more modern functionality.  Their custom pickups and electrics are made in cooperation their partner company, Malagoli Captadores in Sao Palo, Brazil. DeMont also works closely with Guyatone Japan, manufacturing pickups, parts and instruments in the US, while offering all Guyatone products for sale in the US. Likewise, DeMont products are offered in Japan by Japan DeMont.
 

Source: DeMont website (16 March 2017)

DeArmond

The DeArmond brand was originally used on pickups invented by Harry DeArmond and made in the USA by Rowe Industries from the mid 1930s onwards. DeArmond pickups were widely used on guitars made by Harmony, D’Angelico, Eko, Epiphone, Fender, Galanti, Gretsch, Guild, Hofner, Kustom, Levin, Martin, Meazzi, Messenger, Micro-Frets, Ovation, Premier, Silvertone, and Standel.

After purchasing Guild Guitars in 1995 and the DeArmond Company in 1996, Fender's Research and Development department determined which DeArmond pickup models could be recreated and how best to use these classic designs. They created the DeArmond guitar line in which the sound of these modernized, American-made pickups was reunited with classic guitar designs by Guild.

Suhr

John Suhr founded JS Technologies Inc in 1997. Suhr started out doing repairs at Rudy's Music in New York. His first Suhr Custom guitar was made in 1984, before he teamed up with Rudy Pensa to make guitars under the Pensa-Suhr brandname. In the early 1990s John Suhr moved from New York to Los Angeles and from 1995 to 1997 worked as Senior Master Builder at the Fender Custom Shop. In 1997 Suhr joined forces with Steve Smith to form JS Technologies - a small factory building custom guitars to order. Suhr now offers a range of electric guitars and basses as well as amplifiers and effects. John's son Kevin has now also joined the company.

Source: Suhr guitars website (25 February 2017)

Schaller

The Schaller Company started out as a radio repair shop founded by Helmut Schaller in 1945. Helmut Schaller was a talented inventor holding numerous musical instrument related patents,  and he went on to build the Schaller Company into a leading manufacturer of quality guitar components.The range of products has continuously changed over time, the focus gradually shifting from amplifiers and effects to hardware components including machine heads, mutes, bows, pickups, tailpieces, strap-locks, bridges and tremolos. Schaller was originally located in Feucht, near Nuremberg in Germany but is now based in Postbauer-Heng, Bavaria.
 

GEWA

Georg Walther founded GEWA in 1925 in Adorf , Saxony, Germany an area with a long tradition of musical instrument manufacture, In the 1950s the company moved to another famous luthiery region - Mittenwald, Bavaria in the aftermath of World War II. Political changes with the reunification of Germany saw GEWA move their headquarters back to Adorf by 2010. Today, the GEWA company has subsidiaries in all important export markets but also holds substantial shares in Asian musical instruments factories. Circa 2017, GEWA GmbH employed more than 250 qualified members of staff in the areas of production, product management, sales, purchasing, administration, accounting, marketing and logistics.

Cochlea

Cochlea guitars are hand made to order in Portland, Maine. Cochlea make solid body electric guitars often using reclaimed timber as well as their own range of pickups.

Bogue

Larel Rexford Bogue (Rex Bogue) was born in 1951 and raised in San Gabriel, California. He played in bands while growing up, rubbing shoulders with Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Bogue studied at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and displayed a talent for music technology and electronics. Bogue experimented with lasers and was a pioneer of the  live music laser show. He moved on to building innovative guitars: and was one of the early users of active pre-amps in guitars. In 1972 he approached John McLaughlin with a proposal to build him a guitar. This instrument was to become John McLaughlin's iconic Double Rainbow 6/12 double neck.  At the time Rex was apprenticing in Ren Ferguson's Venice Beach shop. Ferguson made the guitar and Rex did the electronics. According to Ferguson:

Blast Cult

Luthier Jason Burns (of King Doublebass) launched the Blast Cult brand in 2011 - intially as an upright bass brand for the alternative/rockabilly player. Blast-Cult products now include: upright bass, electric bass, electric guitar, strings, pickups and effects pedals.

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