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Knutson

John Knutson start building instruments while still at university in 1979. He established Knutson Luthiery in 1981 as a custom builder of acoustic, electric, and archtop guitars, as well as basses and mandolins. Knutson has honed his production and research and development skills by subcontracting out of his Forestville California shop for three larger companies. He also does custom inlay work and is currently building the Messenger upright electric bass along with the occassional custom guitar or Songbird archtop mandolin. Knutson has built instruments for Rob Wasserman, Mario Cippolina, David Lindley, Mike Marshall, and Lief Sorbye.

Source: Knutson Luthiery website (16 November 2017)

BEBENSEE

Ken Bebensee began designing and building custom electric/acoustic guitars in 1984. In 1989, whilst studying in San Luis Obispo for a degree in Engineering and Industrial Technologies at Cal Poly State University, Ken Bebensee began his business, KB Guitars and Basses, in his garage. Since then, Ken has been busily building custom orders for many musicians including Robert Hurst, David Gross,  and as of 2013, completed 150 custom orders.  In 2001, Ken moved to the small mining town of North San Juan, located in Northern California. His shop is a renovated barn in the small community of Willow Springs near the historic North San Juan cemetery.

Keller (Michael)

Michael Keller began making guitars in 1975 under the guidance of Jeffrey Elliot. He was immersed in the Portland, Oregon luthier scene in 1976 and met Richard Schneider, Jimmy D'Aqustio, Michel Gurian and Robert Lundberg. His focus as a builder is to create acoustic guitars that players enjoy and he offers a range of instruments from a massive 18-inch jumbo guitar to a half-sized baby guitar - along with countless options.

Source: MICHAEL L. KELLER web page (7 November 2017)

KAY

The Kay Musical Instrument Company was formed in 1931 when Henry "Kay" Kuhrmeyer acquired Stromberg-Voisinet which been making instruments since the 1890s. Initially Kay offered traditional folk instruments, but eventually they made all sorts of stringed instruments including: violins, cellos, banjos, upright basses, and guitars. Kay made Spanish style acoustics, Hawaiian lap steels, hollowbody acoustic-electrics, and solidbody electrics

Kauffman (Steven)

Steven Kauffman began making acoustic guitars In 1976, at the age of 20.  A dozen instruments later, he began working with his teacher and mentor, Steve Klein.  Their relationship continued for many years by the late 1990s Kauffman was the main builder of Klein acoustics. Circa 2005 he was building Kauffman and Klein guitars near his home in Lafayette, California. Following a move to Oregon he builds Klein Acoustic Guitars and his own Kauffman Guitars on a custom order basis, one-at-a-time in his ranch in Cottage Grove,

Source: Kauffman Guitars website (3 November 2017)
 

KAMAN MUSIC CORPORATION

The company began as Kaman Music Corporation a division of the Kaman Corporation founded by Charles Kaman. In addition to his business interests in aviation, Kaman was a guitarist who came to explore the use of composite materials technologies in guitar building. He and his engineers created the round-backed, composite-body Ovation guitar in 1966. In 2008 the Kaman Corporation sold Kaman Music Corporation to Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC). In 2011, Kaman Music Corporation and Musicorp, sister companies under the FMIC umbrella, united their sales and catalog divisions as KMC Musicorp. In 2014, FMIC sold KMC's Gretsch Drums, TOCA Percussion, Latin Percussion, KAT Percussion, Ovation guitar and Gibraltar Hardware brands to Drum Workshop. In February 2015, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation sold KMC to JAM Industries.

Source: Wikipedia KMCMusicorp

K&S GUITARS

K&S Guitars was established in 1990 by George Katechis Montalvo (the K of K&S) and Marc Silber (the S of K&S). They had a combined experience of more than 60 years restoring, repairing, and selling musical instruments. K&S imported guitars from Mexico which were then set up and final-inspected at the K&S headquaters in the Berkeley Musical Instrument Exchange. This was where Mark Silber also had his retail vintage and historical instrument shop. In 1999 K&S split up into two companies: Berkeley Musical Instrument Exchange (George Katechis Montalvo) and Marc Silber Music (Marc Silber).

Source: K&S website (Archived 1997)

JOHNSON

The Johnson Musical Instruments brand was established in 1993. Since then they have continuously expanded their line of budget acoustics, electrics, resonators, folk instruments and amps. Johnson instruments are distributed via a nationwide network of dealers.

Johnson Guitars are made in China and are not affiliated with Johnson Guitars U.S.A (made by Rick Johnson in Yuma, Arizona).

JENKINS (CHRIS)

Chris Jenkins worked as a vetinarian for many years before starting to make guitars around 1995.  Chris credits the influence of  Ervin Somogyi, Harry Fleischman, Fred Carlson and Charles Fox on his guitar making techniques. According to Chris "Ervin was my biggest influence regarding soundboard selection, construction and bracing. He was singularly responsible for my adopting a scientific approach to soundboards. Every top is weighed and measured for stiffness in units of grams per square inch. Soundboard deflection is measured using known weights; tops weighing more than 7 grams (1/4 oz.) per cubic inch are automatically ruled out for my guitars,"

Chris now makes guitars with his son Jeremy under the Lame Horse brand.

Source: Guitar Nation - Chris Jenkins

JASMINE

The Jasmine brand name was established as an entry level acoustic and classical guitar brand for Takamine. Jasmine guitars used to have "Jasmine by Takamine" on their sound hole labels. The Jasmine brand is part of the Kaman Music Corportation (KMC) product family which also owns Takamine.

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