Colin Warling began making guitars as a teenager and graduated from the Roberto-Venn School of Luthierie in 2008. He returned home to Los Angeles to work as a repair tech at Westwood Music. In 2009 he began working in San Pedro, for Jim Ellsberry, building and developing prototypes and tools for a production-level archtop guitar.  In 2010 he was hired by Roland Belloir, to help build a new guitar shop, The Fretted Frog in Echo Park, Los Angeles.  He was the resident Luthier/sole employee. The shop moved to Pasadena in 2014. Warling left for Portland, Oregon in 2017 where he opened a small guitar shop, Taborella Music & Vintage, in 2018 with his partner, Amanda. The Covid 19 pandemic forced the closure of the shop and Warling enrolled full time as a student at Portland State University. He still makes custom guitars in his spare time.

Wal bass guitars began in 1976 when session bass player John G. Perry asked Ian Waller (“Wal”) to make him a custom bass. This first bass turned out well and Wal and his business partner Pete Stevens made a short run of Custom basses, the “JG” series  and a short-scale “JP” sister model. From the beginning Wal talked to top bass players and recording producers, using their feedback to shape the evolution of his bass designs. In 1978 Electric Wood Ltd. (based in High Wycombe) was formed and began making the first production Wal model: the Wal ‘Pro’ Bass. The early models had passive pickups and controls, and a front mounted scratch-plate. Soon a new active circuit was developed, and in 1980 the first 20 prototype Wal Custom basses were produced. This model became the Mark 1 with electronics were designed to be ultra-quiet and housed in a shielded cavity in the back of the body.

Voxton was was a guitar brand name used by Vox for acoustic and electric guitars. The brand was active in the late 1960s and likely into the 1970s. Vox was owned by Thomas Organ in the late 1960s and in 1969 they began to move away from the Italian made Vox guitars, replacing them with Japanese made Voxton brand instruments. In 1969 the Voxton range comprised 3 electric models, 8 acoustic models and a bass.

Source: 1969 Vox catalog.

Vorg was a Pearl brand name for guitars initially made in Italy in the late 1970s and then in Japan (in Matsumoku) until production ceased in the early 1980s. The brand was targeted at the German market.

Souce: Claescaster - Vorg Guitars (21 June 1971)

The Vox Humana brand name was established in 1922, when Wil Saris started building acoustic guitars under that brand in Vlaardingen and later Rotterdam. In 1957 Cees van Loon took over the business. Originally Cees van Loon (1929) worked in the early 1950s for the Amsterdam guitar and violin builder B. Willemsen, but after the takeover of Vox Humana he built Spanish guitars himself in an attic in Vlaardingen. In 1960 he opened a music shop at 25 Rijkestraat in Vlaardingen and started building and repairing acoustic, jazz and lap steel guitars. The company is still active in Vlaardingen and is one of the largest custom guitar builders in the Netherlands.

Source: Netherlands guitar brands (17 June 2021)

Source: Vox Humana website (17 June 2021)

Vision is a budget guitar and bass brand name of MSA Musikinstrumente.

Vibrawood is an electric guitar and bass brand of John J. Slog's Guitar Villa music store (established in 1988) in Bethlehem, PA. The range includes tele style guitars and precision style basses. All guitars in the Vibrawood and Szlag lines are made in the USA  - handcrafted by John and his team.

Source: Guitar Villa website (8 June 2021)

Vibra: full range of guitars and folk stringed instruments made in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

Source: Vibra catalogs 1977 to 1981