2026 Luthiers and Exhibitors

“I truly love my work – my friends and clients tell me it shows. Every piece I envision is unique and different. Being a professional player, I know how a quality instrument should look, feel, and sound. I most enjoy building for specific people. Knowing one’s particular style, form, and musicianship enables me to create…

In the beginning of the ‘90s, while he was in sales and repairs at Tom Lee music in Vancouver B.C., Mario started guitar building with luthier Robert D’Crivouir. A few years later he moved back to Quebec where he received one of his first grants from “Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec”….

Founded in 1968 by luthier Robert Benedetto, Benedetto Guitars, Inc. of Savannah, Georgia celebrates over 50 years of jazz guitar excellence. The internationally renowned company builds some of the world’s most collectable and expensive instruments while still focusing their production on the needs of professional and aspiring jazz guitarists. https://www.benedettoguitars.com

Instrument making is both an art and a science, and my work lies at the convergence of these two fields.  Since my beginnings as a luthier, I have sought to perfect the art of the greatest luthiers, past and present.  I have thus created my own instrument designs, giving great importance to sound, both in terms…

I’ve been building with my hands for as long as I can remember. I discovered lutherie in my early teens while training with an accomplished repair technician in my hometown. I built my first guitars in high school wood shop, and continued building throughout college. I worked for five years at Santa Cruz Guitar Company…

Tad R. Brown is an American luthier renowned for crafting lightweight, powerful archtop guitars, celebrated for their exceptional responsiveness and unparalleled comfort. With over 30 years of experience in lutherie, repairs, music, and art, Tad has devoted his life to meticulously handcrafting every detail of each guitar, ensuring the highest quality. Brown Guitars offer a…

Combs Instruments is dedicated to building deeply expressive, acoustic-first archtop guitars inspired by the legendary designs of the pre-war Golden Era. Heavily influenced by the historic 1920s and 30s jazz scene, luthier Combs crafts premium archtops that seamlessly bridge vintage mojo with modern precision. From the punchy, mid-range presence of the 16” Aldridge model—named after…

Philadelphia-based luthier Bill Comins began playing guitar at an early age, eventually going on to study jazz guitar at Temple University. His initial career as a working guitarist and private instructor led to a lifelong pursuit of exploring the intricacies of designing and building guitars with a special interest in archtop guitars. Guided by the…

D’Ambrosio Guitars represent the pinnacle of one-of-a-kind guitar creations personally built for the most discerning artist, dealer or patron. Each individual piece below is methodically constructed using raw materials from a curated stock of aged tone woods combined with thirty years of expertise. Working closely with my clients I’m able to deliver unique personal works of art…

D’Arcy Guitars was founded by accident when tough times called for a shift in lifestyle. At the beginning of 2020 when the world largely shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and my career as an art historian was put on temporary hiatus, I turned back to my first love: carpentry. I was born and…

I have spent years weighing the relative merits of different guitars and found things I love and things I really hate. I’m not a guitar factory, and the instruments I make are different than a factory guitar. Factories make money by moving more units, and they use machines to crank out thousands of identical parts…

“LHT guitars are all a  little piece of my soul. I build each one from start to finish by hand.   From the hand drawn full scale blueprint at the beginning, to applying the finish, I obsess over every detail.” I wake up every morning and look forward to going to work.  Not necessarily getting…

“There are moments during the mayhem where I just take a step back and look at my bench, the sawdust, the tools, the glue, the mess… and I swear… it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” Welcome to the World of Small Body Archtops. Your reward for believing you don’t have…

Stephen Marchione started building instruments in 1990 after graduating from Naropa University in Colorado with a degree in Music. He completed his graduate education at Cooper Union where he studied Spanish Culture and later finished an SBA Business Program at Baruch College in Manhattan. In his early twenties, Stephen had the opportunity to begin working…

I was born at Kitakami City in Iwate Prefecture on February 15, 1980.I was crazy about fishing in my boyhood.I didn’t actually care about music, though my father loves music and has always listened to mostly jazz at home. One day just having a look at my father’s Epiphone archtop guitar, I unintentionally held the…

George Leach started working on guitars in 1988, and first went into business under the name of “GSL Guitars.” In 1994, he changed the name to the Phoenix Guitar Company. Since that time George has designed numerous guitars from his small body archtops to his nylon string OM.  ​Now, with over 30 years experience working…

Rob Goldberg makes guitars, violins, cellos, and mandolins in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska. He also processes large spruce and cedar logs into soundboards that he makes available to other luthiers. https://www.robgoldberghandmadeguitars.com

I am Malcolm Rose-Zadow, a Canadian-Belgian Luthier, and I make forward-thinking acoustic archtop guitars and guitar making tools out of my shop in Brussels, Belgium, under the name Rose-Zadow Instruments. I became obsessed with guitar-making around age 17, when I started building in the shop of my first mentor, the Harp-Guitar maker Benoit Meulle-Stef (BMS…

I build archtop Jazz guitars exclusively. Each instrument is hand-crafted here in my workshop. I use no prefabricated wooden parts, all parts are being made personally by me. I use only select woods that I choose myself from special suppliers. These woods are air-dried and stored for no less than five years. Only then do they posses the necessary quality…

Growing up around wood working and construction, I quickly learned that you didn’t have to buy things; you could make them! Add a love for music, art, and learning, lutherie became a way to challenge myself and remain engaged with my passions. I strive to not only produce instruments that keep myself interested, but also…

From a very young age I have had a desire to work with my hands. At 14, I combined my love of music and my passion for woodworking to build my first guitar. Since then, I have strived to make great guitars. I have been working to master my skills as a woodworker and craftsman…

Tom Ribbecke was born in Brookyln, New York Tom attended NYU Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communications and earned a BFA in Music and a BA in communications. He relocated to San Francisco in the early 70’s and opened his first lutherie shop in the Mission district.  He is one of the premier archtop builders…

I was given my first guitar at the age of 13, and eventually I needed it set up. I brought it to Doug Proper, who initiated my interest in the world of working on guitars, not just playing them. He advised me to look for a course if I was serious in my desire to…

Over the last 30 years, I’ve built my fair share of instruments. Each instrument has given me an opportunity to hone my craft and expand my skillset. Building completely unique instruments without any set models or guidelines has been challenging, but it has allowed me to offer something that most other manufacturers cannot: complete control over…