My inspiration is drawn from the tradition of American lutherie, respecting the work of the past while progressing into the new century.
Body style, tonal properties, neck profile, and cosmetic appointments are chosen through consultation between you and luthier Rick Davis. One pair of hands then builds your guitar.
Select materials are used throughout. The woods are carefully chosen for your particular instrument, giving consideration to your preferences for tone and aesthetics. Each soundboard is carefully tap-tuned to give full voice to the instrument. Wooden bindings and wood-and-abalone rosettes complement and complete the body, fingerboard, and headstock. Inlays are hand-cut to your specification ...
Welcome to Ithica, home of Ithaca Stringed Instruments on the world wide web. ISI has been building exquisite violins, violas, cellos ,mandolins and custom guitars for over 30 years now. These instruments are played by many of today's cutting edge influential artists including Jean Luc Ponty, Darol Anger, David Torn & many more. Instruments from ISI feature the finest tone woods, the highest quality fittings and hardware & the unique ISI Pickup System. Although amplified acoustic instruments are ISI's specialty, our pure acoustic instruments are unsurpassed for tone & playability. Please browse our website & feel free to send us some mail if you have any questions that the luthiers at ISI can help you with. We also offer repair and restorations of all stringed instruments.
Welcome to the Guyatone guitar and bass effects pedals home page. At this site you will find reviews of pedals, information on our line of pedal, news and you can even buy our pedals online.
Nick Benjamin steelstring acoustic guitar maker, Lewes, UK.
Unlike the majority of 'handmade' guitars my instruments are genuinely made in small numbers, by hand, each unique and the majority built to order with a full consultation, to meet the customer's exact requirements for tone and feel. I work alone in a small workshop in the center of Lewes, a beautiful historic town in the southeast of England. Lewes is unusual in the world of guitar making in that a small 'community' of makers exists here; each working separately but supporting one another and sharing ideas ...