Ron Carriveau (born around 1941) started making guitars full time in 1968 at the Village Luthier, 1922 E. Hedrick St.,Tucson, Arizona . Carriveau also operated as Precision Guitar Works. Carriveau introduced the Eloustic models in the 1980s, these were versatile guitars with both magnetic and piezo pickups mounted on thin lightweight hollow bodies with no sound-hole and a unique transducing brace and bridge system.

Source Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers. Susan Caust Farrell

Source Tucson Daily Citizen. Tucson, Arizona. August 2, 1969· Page 36