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Henderson has built guitars for many notable musicians such as Tommy Emmanuel, Doc Watson, Peter Rowan, Gillian Welch, [2] Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Eric Clapton, and many others. The book Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument (2005) outlined the process by which Henderson built a guitar for Eric Clapton . [ 3 ]
In 2019, Gibson and Murphy founded The Murphy Lab, a division within the Custom Shop in which Murphy and a team of luthiers handle the brand's relic'ing process. Upon the release of the Murphy Lab's first collection of guitars, Guitar World dubbed the offerings the "pinnacle" of guitar ageing and the closest a new guitar can get to a vintage ...
In 1978, he started working at Wayne Charvel's guitar repair shop in Covina, California (while using a PO Box in neighboring San Dimas). Since Charvel's shop was almost bankrupted, Charvel eventually sold his interest to Grover Jackson on November 10, 1978, which gave Jackson control of the business and the Charvel brand.
Doug Irwin is an American luthier who designed five custom guitars for Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. [1] The guitars he built for Garcia included Eagle , [2] Wolf, [3] Tiger, [4] Wolf Jr. (headless) and Rosebud. [5] Doug also built more than 50 other guitars and basses including a bass for Pete Sears and a bass for Phil Lesh. Two other ...
Parker sold his company in 2004. A few years later, he started designing archtop guitars. His archtop designs incorporate an adjustable neck that mounts to the guitar via a turnbuckle mechanism that allows the action to be adjusted without affecting the tuning, a unique tailpiece and non-traditional sound holes. As of 2015 Parker has a shop in ...
After leaving Fender in 2020 he started his own guitar company called John Cruz Custom Guitars that same year. [3] He is regularly referred to as a "legendary musical instrument builder". The first 50 guitars he produced were called the ‘Premier Fifty’, and they sold to guitar dealers in less than 24 hours.
The 20th-century American luthiers John D'Angelico and Jimmy D'Aquisto made archtop guitars. Lloyd Loar worked briefly for the Gibson Guitar Corporation making mandolins and guitars. His designs for a family of arch top instruments (mandolin, mandola, guitar, et cetera) are held in high esteem by today's luthiers, who seek to reproduce their sound.
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