Blackwood Guitar Company is the brand name of Ted Brown, a designer and builder of hand made guitars. Brown was educated in Ottawa as a cabinetmaker and then took the Fine Woodworking Program at the College of the Redwoods in California in the early nineties where he learned how to design and make custom studio furniture. In 2002 he opened his own fine woodworking school in Almonte, Ontario, and for five years taught students from Canada, US and Europe in the art of fine furniture making. Having studied guitar construction with master guitar maker Sergei de Jonge, these days his efforts are directed at hand building acoustic and electric guitars.