Allan Beardsell is a master luthier who builds innovative guitars one-at-a-time in his Winnipeg workshop. Beardsell was trained by masters and he has been operating in the upper echelon of the handmade guitar world for years with glowing profiles in Acoustic Guitar Magazine and The Fretboard Journal, and a growing list of satisfied customers that includes folk-punk darlings The Weakerthans, contemporary jazz luminary Henry Kaiser, and the legendary Lou Reed, among others.