Marc Ransley established Mojo Pickups in 2010. Its a one man operation where Marc hand winds custom pickups one at a time in Calderdale in the UK.

Source: Mojo Pickups website (11 June 2018)

Marcelo Barbero was born in 1904, he went to work for Jose Ramirez and later Jose Ramirez II and by the 1930s was making guitars under his own name. When Santos Hernandez died in 1943, Barbero was hired to complete unfinished Santos Hernandez instruments. Working on the Santos Hernandez guitars influenced Barbero's style until the late 1940s when his guitars began to show more clearly his own ideas. In 1951 Barbero completed his best known guitar: a flamenco guitar used by the legendary gypsy flamenco player Sabicas (Agustín Castellón Campos) on his recordings in the 1950s.

Alexander Claas makes high end electric guitars and basses in Burgdorf near Hanover, Germany. Claas was a professional furniture maker who turned his interest in instrument making into a full time career when he founded Claas Guitars. The Claas Moby Dick guitar & bass design was perfected in 2009 and employs an ergonomic headless design with an elongated neck joint and fanned frets.

Source: Claas Guitars website (8 June 2018)

In the 1970s Ken Lindemere established a music store with Joe Sallay in Vancouver which grew to be one of the biggest in the city. In 1977 they teamed up with Attila Balogh to found Odyssey Guitars. Odyssey had a small production factory making high end electric guitars and basses with a neck-through-body design. Lindemere left Odyssey in 1981 to study for an MBA, and Odyssey closed in 1982. For the next 22 years he ran various departments of his family's industrial distribution and manufacturing business until they sold it in 2002.  He relocated to Chile to set up a distribution centre and ended up settling there and building guitars again.

Koen van der Meij founded VanderMeij Guitars in 2013 after years of playing guitar and graduating in woodworking and furniture making. Since 2015, he has been crafting his instruments in his workshop in Amsterdam. With VanderMeij Guitars, he aims to create perfection in looks, tone and playability to provide the modern guitarist with the best. The VanderMeij Magistra is popular mostly among heavy metal players and Koen specializes in multi-scale and extended range guitars including 6, 7 and 8-string guitars. Koen works closely with professional touring guitarists to improve every aspect of his guitars.

Orville and Robert Milburn are a father and son guitar classical guitar making team in Sweet Home in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. They began making guitars in 1989. Initially they were self taught but they later had instruction from Jeffrey Elliott and Cyndy Burton, and also recieved advice from other local luthiers including John Gilbert . They concentrated on making classical guitars in the Hauser style, and have also produced useful guides to French polishing techniques for classical guitar finishing.

Source: Milburn Guitars website (archived 2013)

Darkmoon Pickups was established in 2010 by the current master winder and owner Mark V. For the first six years the company released products solely for independent guitar builders and luthiers. Following an expansion in 2016, Darkmoon began selling to the public and released their signature humbuckers. Divided into Vintage and Black Arts series, the signature line covers a very wide range of music styles from blues and jazz to heavy metal. Aside from guitar pickups, Darkmoon also offers guitar wiring harnesses, instrument cables, and custom pickguards.  The company has introduced a large variety of custom cosmetic options such as real mother of pearl or celluloid inlays, gold foils and engraved humbucker covers.

Joel Michaud makes exceptional steel stringed acoustic guitars in Calgary, Alberta.

Source: Michaud Made website (18 May 2018)

Henry Stadlmair Company Inc. was a New York distributor of musical instruments from 1923 to around 1928. In the 1870s Henry Stadlmair began working with C Bruno and Sons, by 1914 he had risen to the rank of Vice President and General Manager. He left Bruno & Sons and formed his own distribution company in 1923. Stadlmair's ukulele, guitar, tiple and banjo brands included: Miami, Avalon, Ace and Triple X. he was also the east coast distributor of Weissenborn. Stadlmair's company appears to have ceased trading in the late 1920s possibly as a consequence of the Wall Street Crash. Henry died in 1940, but was survived by his son Harry who also worked in music distribution for Bruno and Sons.