Kope Veneman founded the Kapa brand in 1962 - the Kapa name was derived from the intials of his family. Kapa owned a music shop in Hyattsville, Maryland in the USA, before starting to make his own instruments in the period 1962 to 1970 . Veneman, who was a Dutch immigrant, used imported Hofner necks and hardware from Germany on the Kapa guitars. Later models used some Japanese parts.

This ice guitar was made by the Ice Sculptor Tim Linhart. The picture was taken at Piteå University in Sweden where the player, Tilman Hoppstock, was a visiting professor. He recounted playing the guitar in an interview with Guitart International in 2006:

The Lado brand was established in 1973. Joe Kovacic, the President and founder of Lado, learned the craft of guitar making in Zagreb, Croatia. He also worked in Austria and Germany before finally making the move to North America in 1971.

The Alvarez Wildwood II 12 string was a parlour style acoustic guitar, with a limited production run of around a year.

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This is an excellent step by step guide to building an acoustic steel-string by Jonathan Sevy. It's intended to be a pictorial journey through the required steps in the construction of a acoustic guitar.  Sevy uses the general approach  described by Irving Sloane in the book "Steel-String Guitar Construction" (E.P.

Series of Gibson Southern Jumbo acoustic guitars.

This is a Santa Cruz Model F acoustic guitar. This model F has a cutaway body with sitka spruce top, East Indian rosewood sides and back, mahogany neck, body has 16" lower bout and grained ivoroid body bindings, ebony bridge, bevelled and polished tortoiseshell pickguard.

An Oahu 69K deluxe jumbo sized acoustic, made in 1935. These were the top of the Oahu range at the time, with quality woods (spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides) highly decorated with an abalone rosette, abalone body binding and a rosewood fingerboard had a vine inlay. The inlaid headstock was standard style (non-slotted).

Vester was a brandname used by the Samuel Music Company (Midco International) of Effingham, Illinois for their range of Korean made guitars.
The Vester brand started in 1990 following the super strat boom of the late 1980s. 

This Oahu 65M Hawaiian guitar was made by Stromberg-Voisinet (later Kay) in the mid 1930s Chicago for distribution by the Oahu Publishing company. It was in good condition when Jake got it, he only had to change out the bakelite bridge pins for ebony ones.

Harry G Stanley established the Oahu Publishing Company in the 1930s. Oahu brand instuments were made by a number of manufacturers including Kay (Harmony, Valco) and Rickenbacker. The brand originated in the era when Hawaiian music was fashionable, and they originally produced Hawaiian style guitars and amplifiers.

Emerald guitars is an Irish brand producing cabon fibre body acoustics and innovative custom designs. Run by Alistair Hay.

H. Homer Simpson filed this patent for an adjustable guitar bridge and neck attachment system in 1935. Homer designed the neck joint to have a minimal amount of contact between neck and body, as he thought this would increase the tonal value of the instrument and increase the overall volume.

This is an Alvarez Acoustic guitar, model 5032. It was bought around 1994. Condition is very good. The label says "Silver Anniversary" which possibly means the guitar was made in 1990 - when the Alvarez brandname celebrated its silver anniversary. The BlueBook of acoustic guitars, however, says that this model was introduced in 1994 and discontinued in 1998.