Fullerton was a Korean or Chinese made brand offering electric guitars (including strat and Mosrite copies) as well as jazz guitars, acoustic guitars and basses. Aria introduced a Fullerton series of stratocaster inspired guitars in the mid 1990s. G&L also have a Fullerton range. These brand and model names all allude to Fullerton, California where Leo Fender founded the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company in 1946.

Forbidden Fruit Guitars is owned and operated by Paul Norman. Paul worked as a finish carpenter, an architect, an actor, a theater technician, a theatrical scene designer and software engineer before studying guitar making with Al Carruth. Forbidden Fruit offers a 12-string resonator guitar which can cut through the noise of even the loudest bar room. Also offers custom carbon fiber biscuit bridges.

Source: Forbidden Fruit Guitars website (19 May 2017)

Harry Fleishman began making instruments in 1969. He began designing custom instruments in an attempt to combine my loves of music and art, making instruments that were fun and original. Over the next few  decades he developed the voice of his guitars and began experimenting with new shapes, multi-wood tops, multiple soundholes, asymmetry, and unusual bracings. Fleishman basses & guitars are played by many pro musicians including: Dave Pomeroy, Scott Bennett and George Holmes.

After leaving school, Fletcher Brock was an apprentice to luthier Michael Allison in Providence, RI, where he worked on vintage instruments and cutting mother of pearl and abalone inlay for Allison’s ornate banjos. Working between projects in Allison's workshop, Fletcher Brock built and sold his first mandolin, a copy of a Martin ”A” model.

In 1979 Fletcher relocated to the west coast where he restored classic wooden yachts, built furniture and architectural interiors along with his work as a luthier. Brock now lives in Seattle, WA where he lives on a vintage 35’ English cutter. His workshop is just down the dock and up three flights of stairs in the former sail loft and lofting area of the historic Jensen Motor Boat Company.

Danny Ferrington worked in his father's cabinet making work shop while still in high school. As a guitar, banjo & pedal steel player he learned instrument making & repairs with Randy Wood at The Old Time Pickin' Parlour when he moved to Nashville in 1975. He built several guitars for celebrities and became well known for making acoustic guitars shaped like electrics, with unusual shapes/colors or necks that played like electric guitars. These acoustics were ideal for rock musicians unused to playing traditional style acoustic guitars and for acoustic players who wanted something different. This opened up a whole new market for Ferrington who travelled to the UK in the late 1970s before moving to California in 1980. Ferrington designed an electro-acoustic range for Kramer starting in 1985-1986. These Kramer Ferringtons were mostly made in Korea and endorsed by the likes of Eddie Van Halen and Dweezil Zappa.

Source: Ferrington catalog 1992

The company was founded by Leo Fender as Fender's Radio Service in late 1938 in Fullerton, California, USA. While repairing musical instrument amplifiers in his electronics workshop he noticed their design flaws. He began making a few amplifiers using his own designs or modifications to designs. By the early 1940s, he had teamed up with another local electronics enthusiast named Clayton Orr (Doc) Kauffman, and they formed a company named K & F Manufacturing Corp. to design, manufacture, and sell electric instruments and amplifiers. Production began in 1945 with Hawaiian lap steel guitars (incorporating a patented pickup) and amplifiers, which were sold as sets. Leo Fender decided to concentrate on manufacturing rather than repair. Kauffman remained unconvinced, however, and they had amicably parted ways by early 1946. At that point Leo renamed the company the Fender Electric Instrument Company.

Kent "Carlos" Everett has been building guitars since 1977 and is mainly self-taught. During the 1980's, Everett worked for and later owned the Atlanta Guitar Works - the premier repair shop in the area. While repairing guitars during the week Kent was also making guitars in the evenings and weekends. He was making a variety of archtop, semi-hollow, solid-body electrics, acoustics, Dobros & mandolins at the time and even patented an electric guitar design. In 1990 Everett was able to close the Guitar Works and began building full time - opening Everett Guitars a one man workshop focused on handmade high-end acoustic guitars. By the mid 1990's Everett Guitars was making over 50 guitars a year with a network of dealers across the USA and Europe. Everett launched the Laurel Series in 2000 - these guitars (128 in total) were made in collaboration with Terada in Japan.

Euphonon guitars were made by August (1873-1944) and Carl Larson (1867-1946), two brothers who were born in Sweden and emigrated to Chicago in the late 1880s. They worked as luthiers for various guitar makers before buying Maurer & Company in 1900 from the retiring Robert Maurer. They set up shop on Elm Street, selling guitars direct to the public under the labels of Maurer, Prairie State and Euphonon. The Larsons introduced their Euphonon brand in the mid 1930s for their new line of guitars, with 14-fret necks, solid headstocks and larger bodies than the parlor style guitars they had built up to that point.  Although the Larson brothers were talented luthiers they often worked quickly meaning their instruments are usually not as well finished as Martins and Gibsons of the same era.