StoryWood Music designs and builds pro-quality custom electric guitars and basses using
100% reclaimed or salvaged wood that has a history - a story.

M-Tone guitars are made in Portland, Oregon by Matt Proctor who started the M-Tone brand name in 2009. Matt makes solid body electric guitars by hand - his creative use of shape, texture, finish and materials mean that each one is a unique work of art. Its no surprise that before he made guitars Matt was an artist creating abstract sculptures and he uses these skills in the designs of his guitars as well as the hand crafting of metal parts. Matt also works part time at Koll.

Source: M-Tone guitars website (5 July 2018)

Prieger Custom Guitars are made by Prieger Tamás in Hungary.

Matt Pulcinella was an active bass and guitar player in the early 1990s Philadelphia and Delaware live music scene who worked as a graphic designer by day. In the mid 1990s he started restoring and hot rodding an old Fender Jazz bass, and then made his own version of a Ken Smith neck-through bass. By 1997 he started to make basses for sale and officially launched Matt Pulcinella Guitars (MPG) in 1998. He advertised in Bass Player magazine and the orders started to roll in. He had to contract out some jobs (like roughing out the necks and finishing) to keep pace with demand. Outsourcing came at too high a price, however and in 2003 Pulcinella was forced to bring everything back in house and drastically scale back production. By 2005 he was back to making a handful of basses per year. For a while he concentrated on playing live again and spending time with his young family, but in 2006 he revitalised his workshop, improved his building procedures and in-house spray booth.

CFOX was a brand name used by luthier Charles Fox in the 1990s  and 2000s for preimuim grade handmade acoustic guitars. Between 1997 and 2001 CFox was a corporate subsidiary of a major musical instrument manufacturer, but from 2001 onwards they  became a wholly independent workshop again.

Get (Norbert Szabó) and Vamp (Imrich Kamocsai), are the founders of GV guitars.
In 2016 Ivan Imhof (from Budapest) joined to the team to collaborate in design and some woodworking.

Main activity is to build high quality handmade custom guitars and basses, integrating traditional craftsmanship and state-of-the art technologies with style that we call "vintage modern". The model lines include several unique designs and others made by custom order. All custom instruments are designed and built by the suggestions and feedback of the customer.

Innovative approach, meticulous attention to details, using the finest quality parts and material, unmatched flexibility and understanding musicians needs are GV's greatest strengths.

The Flatiron mandolin brand originated in 1975 when Charles (Chuck) F. Morrison dropped out of University in Boulder, Colorado to start building mandolins. He rented space for workshops on Pearl street, First at David Goodrich’s Peghead shop on west Pearl St., then at an 800 square foot shop on east Pearl St. This is where he started making copies of his grandfather's old WW1 Gibson Army/Navy model mandolin. Morrison named them Flatirons, after the giant slabs of rock that overlook Boulder and he sold them locally, through Talbot’s Music in Yakima, WA and Steve and Maxine Carlson’s Backporch Pickin’ Parlor in Bozeman, MT.

Moreschi was founded by Giuseppe Moreschi in 1910 when he began making accordions in his basement in Castelfidarfo, Italy. By the 1940s the company became Moreschi & Figli (Moreschi & Sons), Giuseppe was joined by his 3 sons and was exporting wordwide.By the end of the 1940s, Moreschi & Figli had 150 workers and was the third largest employer in Castelfidardo. As the 1960s came the company began to diversify, producing electronic accordions as well as electric guitars. In the 1970s, however, a crisis hit the accordion industry and Moreschi was one of the many companys that closed down. The brand was revived in 1978 by Giuseppe's nephew Mario Moreschi. In 1995 Mario established the Pasco Italia accordion company following the merger of E. Soprani and Moreschi.

Source: Moreschi website (22 June 2018)