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Howie

Howie Guitars was founded in 2015 by Craig and Jen Howie, in Longmont, Colorado. They formed the business model for a guitar company even though they had no idea how to build a guitar at the time. They decided to just go for it and whenever they messed up they learned from their mistakes. When Craig builds a guitar today you will see many of the traditional techniques that he developed out of necessity, but you will also see some very unique ideas that have never been done before. An example of this is the patented double-nautilus shell shaped skeleton inside Howie semi-hollow guitars. This is the result of coming at the process with a beginner brain and not being afraid to fail. By 2022 they had a range of standard models including: the escape series, the griffin series and phoenix series guitars as well as the bull series basses.

Source: Howie Guitars website (9 October 2022)

Karge

Karge electric guitars are handmade by Randy Springis in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He's been making them since 2017, and has earned a reputation for high-quality workmanship. Springis previously trained at Boston’s North Bennet Street School for artisan trades and fine craftsmanship in its furniture and cabinet-making program. After graduation, he opened his own furniture and cabinet shop and continues to run the shop by word of mouth only.

Source: Karge Guitars website (9 October 2022)

Romano Burini

Romano Burini (born 1965) is an Italian guitar maker. Born in Loreto, Ancona into family of craftsmen - his grandfather was a master Cooper who passed on his passion for wood working. The family moved to Germany, where he grew up and became an apprentice engraver and model maker. He worked for the German Mint and won awards for his craftsmanship. In 1991 he returned to Italy to work as a model maker and prototype creator. In his spare time he began to make guitars first for friends and then professionally. He now makes acoustic, electric and bass guitars, custom pickups and custom amplifier cabinets.

Source: Romano Burini website (9 October 2020)

Singleton

Mark Singleton is a custom guitar maker and owner of Singleton Guitarworks. He started out in 1976 doing guitar repair at a guitar shop in New Haven Connecticut. In a quest to make a strat with a fatter tone he built a guitar using different  parts from around the shop. It had a 69 neck refretted with jumbo frets, and a very heavy 74 ash body, two Humbucking pickups, with a Bill Lawrence Blade. The guitar looked, played, and sounded great and became his main instrument. Later in the 1970s he heard that Santana was playing PRS guitars and eventually he got his own. The guitar looked and played great, but the tone he wanted wasn’t there. So he researched tone wood types, guitar building processes, pick up design, wood gluing, finishes. Then he started experimenting with several designs of his own: making many prototypes.

Acer

Acer Guitars is a Canadian boutique electric guitar company founded by Michael Gowman in 2014. Gowman trained as a mechanical engineer while at the same time honing his guitar design and building skills. All Acer guitars and basses have set neck construction and are usually made using highly figured woods shown off by natural oil and wax finishes.

Source: Acer Guitars website (1 October 2022)

Oslo Instrumentfabrikk

Oslo Instrumentfabrikk is a one-man guitar making business, run by Thomas Hagen Kaldhol in Olso, Norway. He established Oslo Instrumentfabrikk in 2012 and makes electric guitars, basses and lap steel guitars. His guitars are inspired by the iconic American ones, but with modern improvements and original designs. He can customize his instruments to his customers needs.

Source: Oslo Instrumentfabrikk website (1 October 2022)

Pittman

Pittman guitars were made by Paul Slagle in California. Pittman guitars were usually Telecaster style electrics, but there were some Strat style ones and basses. Slagle had been responsible for finishing guitars for Asher Guitars, Echopark Guitars, Iconic Custom Guitars, Trussart, Modulus and Tyler Guitars. In addition to guitar making Slagle was also an experienced audio engineer specializing in live music mixing and a very talented bass player. Paul Slagle passed away in 2020.

God City Instruments

Kurt Ballou founded God City Instruments (GCI) in 2011. Ballou  is the owner of God City Recording Studio owner as well as the guitarist for Converge. He started off making guitars and snare drums for himself and his friends but it took until 2016 for the first commercial GCI product release. This was the Brutalist Jr. DIY PCB distortion pedal- initially designed as a business card for the studio. This was a huge success and spurred Kurt on to design more effects pedals including the SBD Fuzz, the Medicine Boost and the Riffchild. Small runs of the pedals were made in the studio basement and sold online via the GCI Reverb shop. The full scale commercial launch of GCI was in 2019 and now the product range includes guitars, basses, effects and you can still get the DIY effects PCBs that started it all.

Source: God City Instruments website (23 September 2022)

Sims

Sims is one of the best known UK guitar custom shops. The origins of SimS Custom Shop began in 1992 when Martin Sims found it difficult to see the side edge markers whilst playing his bass under stage lighting.  So he went to the London Bass Centre to buy some LEDs he had seen on a Warwick. Unfortunately, he learnt that you had to buy the Warwick bass and order it with the LEDs.  Martin developed a method of retrofitting his bass with side edge LEDs without disturbing the fingerboard or frets.

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