Guitar Brand Name Generator

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Generate guitar brand names for a maker, a luthier's workshop or a gear line: Harrowgate Guitars, Tidewater Lutherie, Ironwood & Sons, Hollowmere Stringworks, Sixth Meridian Guitar Works. Founder surnames, tonewoods, rivers, birds and model-line names, for founders and for fiction.

About guitar brand names

Guitar makers name themselves in a handful of ways, and a player can often guess the kind of instrument from the name alone. The most familiar habit is the founder's surname, with or without Guitars, & Sons or Guitar Co. behind it. Small acoustic builders lean on Lutherie, Luthiers or Stringworks, while electric makers favor Custom Shop, Guitar Works and Mfg. A second family borrows from the landscape and the materials: rivers and coastlines, the woods a guitar is built from (spruce, koa, alder, ebony) and birds or animals that make a clean headstock logo.

This list holds 1,000 names across those styles and several more: vintage Americana for retro electrics, heavier marques for extended-range and multiscale guitars, quiet names for boutique flattops, and sister brands for basses, amplifiers, pedals, archtops, resonators and ukuleles. About a tenth are model-line names such as The Meridian or Ridgeline Standard, for the day the brand needs a catalog.

The headstock is the real test. A maker's name is inlaid, engraved or printed on a few inches of wood, so one or two short words read better from the back of a room than a long phrase. Nobody has compared these names with existing makers, so search before you order a logo.

How to choose guitar brand names

  • Sketch the name on a headstock outline before you fall for it: one or two short words fit a logo, while four words usually end up as initials.
  • Match the frame to the instrument. Lutherie and Luthiers read as handmade acoustics, Custom Shop and Guitar Works read as electrics, and Extended Range or Multiscale tells metal players the guitar is for them.
  • Leave room for a catalog. A name like Koa Line Guitars ties you to one wood, while a surname or a place can sit above any model you build later.
  • Say a brand and a model line together, for example Tidewater Lutherie and The Drifter, to hear whether they belong on the same instrument.
  • Search for guitar makers, amp builders and pedal companies with the same or a similar name before you print decals. Small builders are numerous, and two workshops with one name confuse buyers.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a good guitar brand name?

It fits on a headstock, is easy to say across a shop counter and suits the instruments you build. Founder surnames, place names and tonewoods are the most common patterns, because they sound established and leave room for many models.

How do luthiers usually name their workshops?

Most use their own surname with a plain word after it, as in Lindqvist Lutherie or Pemberton & Sons. Others pick an image of the workbench or the home it sits in, such as Kitchen Table Lutherie or Hide Glue Guitars. Both tell a buyer that one person or a small team builds each guitar.

Does the list cover basses, amps and pedals?

Yes. Alongside the guitar makers you will find sister brands such as Undertow Bass, Glowplate Amplification and Germanium Garden Pedals, plus archtop, resonator and ukulele makers. Model-line names like The Woodshed and Harbormaster Deluxe are there for the instruments themselves.

Can I use one of these names for a real guitar company?

Treat every name as a starting point. The list was screened for duplicates and offensive terms, and it was not compared with existing businesses. Search for makers with the same name in your country, and take legal advice if the brand matters to you, before you commit.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 33 names

  • A. R. Stockdale Guitars
  • Abalone & Ash
  • Abernathy Guitars
  • Abyssal Plain Basses
  • Achterberg Guitars
  • Active Circuit Basses
  • Addison & Roe
  • Adirondack Top Guitars
  • Aged Hardware Guitar Works
  • Air Dried Guitar Co.
  • Al Fine Guitars
  • Albatross Guitars
  • Alder & Ash Guitars
  • Aldermoor
  • Aldridge & Sons Guitars
  • Allemande Lutherie
  • Alnico Bell Amps
  • Amos Braithwaite, Luthier
  • Anacrusis Lutherie
  • Anchor Chain Bass
  • Anchor Line Guitar Works
  • Anselm Kirchner, Guitar Maker
  • Anvil Crest Guitars
  • Aphelion Seven
  • Arched Plate Foundry
  • Ardent & Oak
  • Ashby Guitar Co.
  • Ashen Throne Instruments
  • Ashtray Cover Bass
  • Assembly Line Electric Guitars
  • Atomic Age Guitars
  • Attic Light Luthiers
  • Auvenne

B: 76 names

  • B. N. Achterhof Guitars
  • Back Forty Guitars
  • Backbeat Custom Shop
  • Backwater Guitars
  • Ballast Tank Low Instruments
  • Ballroom Deluxe Guitars
  • Baltic Birch Cabinets
  • Baltic Quay Guitars
  • Bandsaw Customs
  • Bandstand Mfg.
  • Bare Aluminum Stompboxes
  • Barn Beam Guitars
  • Barn Dance Guitars
  • Barn Owl Guitars
  • Barnaby Renwick Guitar Co.
  • Barre Chord Customs
  • Basalt Instruments
  • Bastion Multiscale
  • Bearclaw Spruce Guitars
  • Beatrix Lonsdale Guitars
  • Bedroom Level Amplification
  • Belisar Guitars
  • Belt & Pulley Guitar Works
  • Bending Iron Lutherie
  • Bexley & Crane
  • Big Thicket Guitars
  • Bighorn Guitar Company
  • Billet & Blank Guitars
  • Birdseye Guitar Makers
  • Biscuit Bridge Resonators
  • Bison Trail Guitar Co.
  • Bittern Stringed Instruments
  • Black Bear Stringed Instruments
  • Black Forest Gitarren
  • Black Locust Guitars
  • Black Swan Lutherie
  • Black Tungsten Guitars
  • Black Walnut Guitars

B, continued

  • Blackmere Custom Shop
  • Blade Switch Fretworks
  • Blast Furnace Instruments
  • Blue Hour Archtops
  • Blue Plate Electric Guitars
  • Blue Third Electric
  • Bluestem Guitars
  • Bobwhite Guitars
  • Bog Oak Guitars
  • Bois d'Arc Guitar Makers
  • Bolt-On Guitar Works
  • Bone Nut & Brass
  • Bookmatch Guitars
  • Bottleneck Road Resonators
  • Bourrée Guitars
  • Bouzouki & Cittern Makers
  • Boxcar Electric
  • Brackenfell Guitars
  • Bramble Gate Guitars
  • Brannigan Bros.
  • Brass Body Resonators
  • Brass Tack Guitar Works
  • Breadboard Audio
  • Breakwater Guitar Company
  • Breath & Bone Lutherie
  • Breath Mark Acoustics
  • Bright Hollow
  • Brightwell Family Guitars
  • Brio Atelier
  • Brushes & Ballads Guitars
  • Bubinga Guitar Company
  • Bucket Brigade Pedals
  • Buffered Path Audio
  • Bull Fiddle Workshop
  • Bull Moose Guitars
  • Bullfrog Guitars
  • Bunkhouse Electric
  • Burl & Bark Guitars

C: 74 names

  • C. B. Oyelowo Guitars
  • Cactus Wren Guitar Co.
  • Cadrow
  • Caesura Instruments
  • Cairnstone Extended Range
  • Calando Acoustics
  • Calverley Father & Son
  • Camshaft Customs
  • Canal Street Guitar Makers
  • Candle End Acoustics
  • Cantabile Lutherie
  • Canticle Guitars
  • Canyon Rim Baritone
  • Carbon Comp Electronics
  • Carbon Shard Guitars
  • Cardew & Lindholm
  • Carry-On Travel Guitars
  • Carved Top Society
  • Catalog No. 9 Guitars
  • Cedar Bayou Guitars
  • Center Block Electric
  • Ceramic Magnet Amplification
  • Chaconne Guitar Makers
  • Checked Lacquer Customs
  • Cherry Orchard Guitars
  • Chickadee Workshop
  • Chisel & Mallet Luthiers
  • Choir Loft Lutherie
  • Choke & Cap Amplification
  • Chop Chord Mandolins
  • Chord Melody Guitars
  • Chrome Diner Guitars
  • Chuckwagon Guitar Makers
  • Cicada Guitar Company
  • Cinderfall
  • Circle of Fifths Guitar Makers
  • Claymore Baritones

C, continued

  • Clean Boost Circuits
  • Clean Headroom Amplification
  • Clipping Diode Pedals
  • Closed Back Cabinets
  • Cloth Wire Guitar Works
  • Clover Field Acoustics
  • Clydebank Stringed Instruments
  • Coal Camp Guitar Makers
  • Cobalt Vein Guitars
  • Cocobolo Guitar Co.
  • Cold Harbor Guitars
  • Coldbrook Lutherie
  • Colossus Nine
  • Common Time Electric
  • Compás Flamenco Guitars
  • Comping Hand Archtops
  • Compound Meter Instruments
  • Con Brio Guitars
  • Concert Pitch Guitars
  • Cone & Spider Resonators
  • Console Steel Makers
  • Copper Creek Stringed Instruments
  • Copperhead Custom Shop
  • Cormac Devane Guitars
  • Corvane
  • County Fair Guitar Mfg.
  • Courthouse Square Guitars
  • Coutinho Guitars
  • Coverplate Resonators
  • Coyote Bluff Guitar Co.
  • Crossover Nylon Guitars
  • Crossroads Depot Guitars
  • Crosswell Electric
  • Curl & Figure Guitars
  • Curlew Fretted Instruments
  • Cypress Back Flamenca
  • Cypress Knee Guitars

D: 34 names

  • D. L. Winterbourne Guitars
  • Daisy Chain Electronics
  • Dal Segno Instruments
  • Dance Hall Electric
  • Danube Reach Guitars
  • Daughters of Keane Guitar Co.
  • Davelle Guitars
  • Deep Channel Basses
  • Dellacourt Guitars
  • Delta Queen Guitar Mfg.
  • Desrosiers Guitars
  • Dipper Workshop
  • Dirgecraft Guitars
  • Doghouse Uprights
  • Dorian Mode Guitars
  • Double Stop Custom Shop
  • Dovetail Neck Guitars
  • Downbeat Guitar Works
  • Downstroke Custom Shop
  • Dreadnought Class Guitars
  • Driftless Guitars
  • Drive-In Electric Guitars
  • Drone Note Acoustics
  • Drop Zero Guitars
  • Dry Goods Guitar Mfg.
  • Dry Gulch Guitars
  • Dry Stone Series
  • Dual Coil Basses
  • Duende Guitarras
  • Dunleavy Guitars
  • Dunmore Guitar Company
  • Dunn & Calloway
  • Dust Bowl Guitars
  • Dying Battery Pedals

E: 24 names

  • E. M. Cresswell & Son
  • Eastlake Guitars
  • Ebony Bridge Guitars
  • Edge of Breakup Amps
  • Eighteen Watt Society
  • Eklund Lutherie
  • Elderflower Guitars
  • Elias Trask, Luthier
  • Elk Fork Guitar Co.
  • Elkarra
  • Ellsworth Guitar Company
  • Empty Chapel Acoustics
  • Enclosure Drill Devices
  • End Grain Guitars
  • Endpin Bass Makers
  • Envelope Follower Devices
  • Equal Temper Guitars
  • Escape Velocity Guitar Lab
  • Estrela Guitars
  • Estuary Instruments
  • Etched Brass Pedals
  • Evensong Guitars
  • Eyelet Board Electronics
  • Ezekiel Proudfoot Guitars

F: 44 names

  • Falk & Oduya Guitar Makers
  • Fan Brace Classical Guitars
  • Fanned Fret Foundry
  • Farnsworth Musical Instruments
  • Farrowdale
  • Fathom & Fret
  • Fault Line Bass
  • Feather Brace Acoustics
  • Feed & Seed Guitars
  • Feedback Loop Custom Shop
  • Fenland Workshop
  • Fenmoor Guitars
  • Fenris Extended Range
  • Fenwright Guitars
  • Ferry Crossing Junior
  • Ferry Landing Guitars
  • Figured Maple Guitars
  • Filling Station Guitars
  • Finger Joint Cabinets
  • Fireside Flattops
  • First Frost Guitars
  • Fitzwarren Guitars

F, continued

  • Five and Dime Guitar Mfg.
  • Five String Foundry
  • Five Watt Wonder Amps
  • Fjordland Guitars
  • Flat Seven Guitars
  • Flat Six Lap Steels
  • Flatwound Bass Makers
  • Flint Hills Guitars
  • Floating Pickup Archtops
  • Flywheel Guitar Works
  • Fogbank Electric
  • Foghorn Basses
  • Fold Neck Travel Guitars
  • Foothill Twelve
  • Forty Hertz Basses
  • Foundry Row Guitar Mfg.
  • Foxglove Luthiers
  • Fratelli Bonacci
  • Freight Train Bass Co.
  • French Polish Lutherie
  • Fretless Line Bass
  • Front Stoop Guitar Makers

G: 36 names

  • G. A. Molyneux Guitars
  • Galdric
  • Gallatin Bros. Guitars
  • Garden Shed Lutherie
  • Gated Fuzz Pedals
  • Gatehouse Special
  • Gauntlet Guitar Lab
  • Gebrüder Hollweg Gitarren
  • Germanium Garden Pedals
  • Ghost Note Basses
  • Gigue & Reel Guitars
  • Glacier Tongue Instruments
  • Glenhollow Guitars
  • Glowplate Amplification
  • Go-Bar Guitars
  • Gold Foil Guitars
  • Goldcrest Guitar Company
  • Golpeador Flamenco Guitars
  • Googie Electric
  • Gossamer
  • Grabowski Guitar Co.
  • Grace Note Lutherie
  • Grain Elevator Guitars
  • Granite Falls Guitars
  • Graphite Spine Guitar Lab
  • Graveline Instruments
  • Great Egret Guitars
  • Greaves Bros. Guitars
  • Grey Goshawk Guitars
  • Grille Cloth Amps
  • Ground Floor Bass
  • Ground Wire Customs
  • Groundswell Low Instruments
  • Growth Ring Guitars
  • Gulf Stream Guitars
  • Gut String Upright Makers

H: 47 names

  • H. G. Arkwright & Sons
  • Halberd
  • Half Stack Amplification
  • Half Step Down Customs
  • Halvorsen & Sons
  • Halyard Special
  • Hammer-On Customs
  • Hand Plane Guitars
  • Hand Stamped Stompboxes
  • Hand Wound Custom Shop
  • Harbor Light Guitars
  • Harbormaster Deluxe
  • Hardpan Bass Makers
  • Hargreave & Sons
  • Harlow & Pike
  • Harp Guitar Workshop
  • Harrowgate Guitars
  • Hathersage Luthiers
  • Havilar Guitars
  • Hawthorn Hedge Guitars
  • Hayride Guitar Mfg.
  • Head Arrangement Electric
  • Headless Theory Guitars

H, continued

  • Headwaters Workshop
  • Hedgehog Lutherie
  • Hedgerow Deluxe
  • Heliotrope
  • Hemiola
  • Henrietta Vale Lutherie
  • Hexagram Guitar Lab
  • Hickory Hollow Guitar Co.
  • Hide Glue Guitars
  • High Lonesome Mandolins
  • High Plains Guitar Company
  • Hollisbrook
  • Hollow Neck Steel Guitars
  • Hollow Reed Lutherie
  • Hollowmere Stringworks
  • Honeybee Lutherie
  • Honky Tonk Electric Guitars
  • Hoogendijk Guitars
  • Hornpipe Stringed Instruments
  • Horvath Guitars
  • House of Ostrowski Guitars
  • House of Varnell
  • Humbucker Row Custom Shop
  • Hush & Hum Acoustics

I: 13 names

  • Ilesley Guitars
  • In the Pocket Basses
  • Indigo Hour Guitars
  • Ingersoll Guitars
  • Ingrid Vossberg Guitars
  • Iron Gate Customs
  • Ironclad Baritones
  • Ironside Extended Range
  • Ironwood & Sons
  • Island Koa Ukuleles
  • Istrane
  • Ivermere Guitars
  • Iwasaki Guitars

J: 12 names

  • J. W. Halloran Guitars
  • Jackrabbit Guitars
  • Janssens Guitars
  • Jessup Guitar Co.
  • Jig & Fixture Guitar Works
  • Jorvane Guitars
  • Josiah Pettifer & Sons
  • Jotun Instruments
  • Juke Joint Guitars
  • Jumping Flea Ukuleles
  • Juniper Fret
  • Just Intonation Guitar Lab

K: 14 names

  • Keel & Ballast Bass
  • Kelderwick
  • Kerfed Lining Acoustics
  • Kestrane
  • Kestrel & Crane
  • Kettering Fretted Instruments
  • Kettle River Guitars
  • Keystone Arch Custom Shop
  • Kindred Grain
  • Kirkbride Guitars
  • Kitchen Table Lutherie
  • Koa Line Guitars
  • Korina Guitar Company
  • Kovalenko Guitars

L: 42 names

  • L. T. Nakagawa Guitars
  • Lacewood Guitars
  • Lake Effect Guitars
  • Lanai Porch Ukuleles
  • Lantern Hill Luthiers
  • Lap Slide Steel Guitars
  • Lapwing Lutherie
  • Larkspur Lutherie
  • Lascelles Atelier
  • Last Train Series
  • Late Set Archtops
  • Lathe & Lacquer Guitar Works
  • Lattice & Fan Luthiers
  • Leading Tone Guitars
  • Ledger Line Guitars
  • Lemaire Guitares
  • Leopold Strand & Sons
  • Level Fret Guitar Works
  • Lighthouse Keeper Series
  • Linden Tree Guitars
  • Lindqvist Lutherie

L, continued

  • Lined Fretless Instruments
  • Lintel Stone Bass
  • Lipstick Tube Electric
  • Lockhart & Daughters
  • Lockkeeper Special
  • Loire Valley Guitares
  • Lone Prairie Guitars
  • Long Apprenticeship Lutherie
  • Long Scale Basses
  • Longship Baritones
  • Loon Lake Guitars
  • Lorimont Guitars
  • Low B Instruments
  • Low Fifth Basses
  • Low Tide Guitar Co.
  • Low Watt Amps
  • Lowcountry Guitar Co.
  • Lowlander Junior
  • Lumetta Guitars
  • Lydian Dominant Guitars
  • Lynx & Lantern

M: 42 names

  • M. K. Haverford
  • Mail Order Guitars
  • Main Street Guitar Makers
  • Mainspring Fretworks
  • Maison Delorme Guitares
  • Malt Shop Guitars
  • Mango Tree Guitar Co.
  • Mantle & Core Basses
  • Margit Sorensen Guitars
  • Marlin Spike Guitars
  • Marrow & Steel
  • Marrowby Guitars
  • Marsh Harrier Guitars
  • Mateus Quintela Guitars
  • Meadow Pipit Guitar Co.
  • Meadowsweet Guitars
  • Meeting House Guitars
  • Mercer & Quill
  • Merriweather Guitars
  • Mezzo Piano Guitars
  • Mid Hump Pedals

M, continued

  • Middle C Stringed Instruments
  • Milkweed Luthiers
  • Mill Pond Guitar Co.
  • Millrace Workshop
  • Millwheel Standard
  • Mirelle & Vane
  • Mistletoe Bough Guitars
  • Mixolydian Instruments
  • Mjolnir Forge Guitars
  • Model Eleven Solid Body
  • Model Fourteen Hollow Body
  • Model Nine Archtop
  • Model Seven Flat Top
  • Monkeypod Guitar Co.
  • Monolith Eight
  • Moorgate Guitars
  • Morendo
  • Mossgrove Guitars
  • Motor Court Guitars
  • Mwangi Guitars
  • Myrtle Grove Guitars

N: 27 names

  • Nadir Extended Range
  • Naismith & Sons
  • Narrow Gauge Guitar Co.
  • Narrowboat Deluxe
  • Narwhal Electric
  • Natural Harmonic Guitars
  • Neck-Through Customs
  • Nickel Plate Resophonic
  • Night Ferry Twelve
  • Night Heron Guitar Co.
  • Night Shift Guitars
  • Nightfall Vector Guitars
  • Nightjar Guitar Company
  • Nightwatch Special
  • Nine Volt Garden
  • Nitro Finish Guitar Works
  • Noor Haddad Guitars
  • Nordahl Instruments
  • North Sea Guitars
  • North Window Guitars
  • Northcott Guitars
  • Northshore Guitar Makers
  • Norvelle
  • Nullpoint Instruments
  • Nut Slot Toneworks
  • Nuvanta Guitars
  • Nylon & Cedar Classical

O: 38 names

  • O. V. Carrow & Daughter
  • Obelisk Extended Range
  • Ochre & Umber
  • Octave Mandolin Workshop
  • Octave Up Effects
  • Odalys Ferreira Guitars
  • Okafor & Finch Guitar Makers
  • Okonjo Guitars
  • Old Badger Guitar Co.
  • Old Growth Guitars
  • Old Man Garrity Guitars
  • Old Spruce Guitar Co.
  • Olive Grove Guitarras
  • One at a Time Luthiers
  • One Bench Lutherie
  • Op Amp Alley Effects
  • Open Back Amps
  • Open Chord Custom Shop
  • Open G Guitar Works
  • Open Voicing Acoustics
  • Open Window Acoustics
  • Orca Sound Guitars
  • Orchard Row Deluxe
  • Oriston
  • Orrinshaw Guitars
  • Osmium Instruments
  • Osprey Point Guitars
  • Ostinato Guitar Makers
  • Ostrander & Wills
  • Output Iron Amps
  • Output Jack Customs
  • Oval Hole Archtops
  • Ovangkol Lutherie
  • Overhead Bin Travel Guitars
  • Overtone Series Lutherie
  • Oxblood Cabinet Amplification
  • Oxbow Workshop
  • Oyelaran Guitar Company

P: 59 names

  • Padauk & Pine
  • Painted Desert Guitars
  • Paper Cone Amplification
  • Paper Lantern Guitars
  • Parallel Major Electric
  • Parlor Window Guitars
  • Parts Bin Customs
  • Pascoe Guitars
  • Passacaglia
  • Passive Voice Bass
  • Pattern Maker Guitar Works
  • Pau Ferro Guitars
  • Pavane Guitars
  • Peak District Guitar Co.
  • Pear Tree Lutherie
  • Pedal & Knee Steel Guitars
  • Pedal Tone Guitars
  • Pellatine
  • Pemberton & Sons
  • Pennington Stringed Instruments
  • Penrose & Achebe
  • Pentatonic Box Guitars
  • Penumbra Instruments
  • Peregrine Guitar Makers
  • Perfboard Devices
  • Perfect Fifth Customs
  • Perihelion
  • Permafrost Baritones
  • Phase Stage Effects

P, continued

  • Pick Attack Customs
  • Piedmont Line Guitars
  • Pike & Perch Guitars
  • Pilot Lamp Amps
  • Pine Barrens Guitar Co.
  • Pine Box Amps
  • Pineapple Body Ukuleles
  • Plainsong Luthiers
  • Plate & Spring Effects
  • Plectrum Banjo & Guitar
  • Plover Instruments
  • Plumb Bob Stringworks
  • Po Valley Liuteria
  • Pocket & Pulse Basses
  • Pocket Player Bass
  • Poco a Poco Lutherie
  • Point to Point Amplification
  • Pole Piece Customs
  • Polyrhythm Guitar Lab
  • Porch Swing Guitars
  • Portamento Guitars
  • Power Chord Guitar Works
  • Power Tube Glow Amplification
  • Prairie Wind Guitars
  • Pronghorn Mfg.
  • Pruitt Guitars
  • Pull-Off Guitar Works
  • Purfling & Pearl
  • Purpleheart Stringed Instruments
  • Pyrelight Guitars

Q: 8 names

  • Quarry Road Guitars
  • Quarter Note Basses
  • Quartersawn Guitar Company
  • Querida Guitarras
  • Quiet Hearth Guitars
  • Quillhaven Guitars
  • Quilted Top Guitars
  • Quimby & Daughters

R: 50 names

  • R. P. Marchetti & Figli
  • Rademaker Gitaarbouw
  • Radio Hour Guitars
  • Rain Barrel Guitars
  • Rampart
  • Rasgueado Guitarras
  • Rasmussen & Niece Guitars
  • Razorwire Guitars
  • Reclaimed Pine Guitar Co.
  • Rectifier Row Amplification
  • Red Cedar Lutherie
  • Red Clay Guitar Company
  • Red Kite Guitar Co.
  • Red Setter Guitar Makers
  • Red Squirrel Guitars
  • Redfearn Guitars
  • Redshift Multiscale
  • Reef Break Ukuleles
  • Relative Minor Guitars
  • Relic Bench Custom Shop
  • Repeat Sign Electric
  • Requinto Workshop
  • Rhine Bend Guitars
  • Rhythm Changes Guitars
  • Rhythm Section Basses

R, continued

  • Ridgeline Standard
  • Ridley, Marsh & Co.
  • Riftborn
  • Ring Mod Audio
  • Ringtail Guitar Makers
  • Ritornello Instruments
  • Rivenhall
  • River Otter Guitars
  • Riverboat Mfg.
  • Roasted Maple Guitars
  • Rocker Plate Wah Works
  • Rocket Fin Guitars
  • Rodeo Queen Guitars
  • Rook & Rye
  • Root Note Basses
  • Rosenthal Stringed Instruments
  • Rosette & Purfling Classical
  • Rough Sawn Guitar Makers
  • Round Neck Resophonic
  • Router Table Custom Shop
  • Rowan Berry Lutherie
  • Rubato
  • Runestone Guitars
  • Running Hound Guitars
  • Rust Belt Guitars

S: 114 names

  • S. J. Pettigrew Guitars
  • Sag & Bloom Amps
  • Sagebrush Electric Guitars
  • Salt & Cedar
  • Saltmarsh Fretted Instruments
  • Sandhill Crane Guitar Company
  • Sandhills Guitar Company
  • Sandpiper Lutherie
  • Sapele Street Guitars
  • Sapwood Lutherie
  • Sarabande Atelier
  • Saturday Night Electric
  • Sawmill Town Guitars
  • Scale Length Guitar Works
  • Scalloped Brace Guitars
  • Scatter Wound Customs
  • Schooner Special
  • Scimitar Guitars
  • Scissortail Electric
  • Screen Printed Effects
  • Scroll & Point Mandolins
  • Sea Otter Guitar Makers
  • Seasoned Timber Guitars
  • Selwick
  • Semi-Hollow Society
  • Senza Sordino Guitars
  • Set Neck Custom Shop
  • Seventeen Inch Archtops
  • Severnside Guitars
  • Sforzando Electric
  • Sharp Eleven Instruments
  • Shell Voicing Guitar Makers
  • Shellac & Spruce
  • Shimmer Field Pedals
  • Shoreline Four String Basses
  • Short Scale Society
  • Shrike Electric
  • Shuffle Feel Customs

S, continued

  • Sigil & Rune Guitars
  • Signal Box Standard
  • Signal Chain Guitar Works
  • Silas Eberhardt & Co.
  • Silicon Orchard Effects
  • Silva & Whitmore
  • Single Coil Stringworks
  • Single Cut Basses
  • Sinker Redwood Guitars
  • Sitka Sound Guitars
  • Six String Bass Works
  • Sixth Meridian Guitar Works
  • Slap Back Uprights
  • Slapback Hallway Pedals
  • Sleeper Car Deluxe
  • Slide Rule Custom Shop
  • Slip Jig Acoustics
  • Slope Shoulder Acoustics
  • Slow Morning Guitars
  • Sluice Gate Baritone
  • Small Hours Acoustics
  • Smoke Ring Archtops
  • Snow Bunting Guitars
  • Soapbar Bass Makers
  • Sock Hop Electric
  • Soda Fountain Guitars
  • Solder Joint Custom Shop
  • Soleares Guitarras
  • Solo Builder Acoustics
  • Solvane Guitars
  • Sons of Hartigan Guitars
  • Soprano & Tenor Ukuleles
  • Sotto Voce Acoustics
  • Soundboard Spruce Luthiers
  • South Fork Lutherie
  • Southern Alps Guitar Co.
  • Space Race Electric Guitars
  • Sparkle Top Guitar Mfg.

S, continued

  • Speckled Trout Guitar Co.
  • Spinnaker Deluxe
  • Split Coil Basses
  • Spokeshave Acoustics
  • Spray Booth Customs
  • Spring Tank Reverb Works
  • Spun Cone Resophonic
  • Sputter & Spit Pedals
  • Squall Line Guitars
  • Square Neck Steel Guitars
  • Stacked Gain Effects
  • Stag & Hare Guitars
  • Standard Tuning Custom Shop
  • Standby Switch Amplification
  • Stannard & Sons
  • Starlite Lounge Guitars
  • Starved Voltage Circuits
  • Steel Body Blues Guitars
  • Steel Mill Guitars
  • Steelhead Guitars
  • Stillwater Bend Guitars
  • Stomp Switch Devices
  • Storm Petrel Guitars
  • Strap Button Guitar Works
  • Strathspey Fretted Instruments
  • String Bend Guitar Works
  • Stripboard Circuits
  • Style A Parlor
  • Style C Concert
  • Style F Jumbo
  • Sub Octave Instruments
  • Subharmonic Guitars
  • Sunniva Dahlberg Guitars
  • Supper Club Guitars
  • Swamp Ash Guitar Co.
  • Sweetheart Guitar Mfg.
  • Sycamore Row Guitars
  • Sympathetic String Guitars

T: 143 names

  • T. H. Lindgren, Guitar Maker
  • Tacet Instruments
  • Tag Strip Amplification
  • Tagus Guitarras
  • Tailfin Guitar Mfg.
  • Tailgut Uprights
  • Tailpiece & Trapeze
  • Tallgrass Guitars
  • Tamblyn Guitars
  • Tamsin & Roe
  • Tanaka & Brandt
  • Tap Tone Guitars
  • Tape Wobble Effects
  • Tapewound Basses
  • Teardrop Mandolin Makers
  • Tectonic Bass Works
  • Template No. 4 Customs
  • Tenor Guitar Society
  • Tensor Multiscale
  • Tessitura Guitars
  • Thackeray Guitars
  • Thaddeus Okoro Guitars
  • Thaw & Bloom Luthiers
  • The Almanac
  • The B-Side
  • The Backroad
  • The Barnstormer
  • The Barrel Roll
  • The Brakeman
  • The Castaway
  • The Chinook
  • The Cloverleaf
  • The Compass Rose
  • The Contrail
  • The County Line

T, continued

  • The Cresswick Brothers
  • The Crosswind
  • The Curtain Call
  • The Deep Cut
  • The Demo Tape
  • The Drifter
  • The Equinox
  • The First Chair
  • The Four-Track
  • The Green Room
  • The Hairpin
  • The Hallam Sisters Guitar Co.
  • The Hideaway
  • The House Band
  • The Interlude
  • The Last Exit
  • The Late Show
  • The Layover
  • The Ledger
  • The Load-In
  • The Longhaul
  • The Marquee
  • The Matinee
  • The Meridian
  • The Mile Marker
  • The Mistral
  • The Nightcap
  • The Open Mic
  • The Opening Act
  • The Ostlund Family Workshop
  • The Overture
  • The Porchlight
  • The Red Eye
  • The Road Case
  • The Second Set
  • The Session Ace

T, continued

  • The Setlist
  • The Sextant
  • The Sideman
  • The Sirocco
  • The Slipstream
  • The Solstice
  • The Songsmith
  • The Sound Check
  • The Stowaway
  • The Straightaway
  • The Switchback
  • The Switchman
  • The Tailspin
  • The Throwback
  • The Turnpike
  • The Updraft
  • The Wayfarer
  • The Woodshed
  • Thimble & Thread Guitars
  • Thinline Hollow Guitars
  • Thornaby Guitars
  • Three Brothers Mulroney
  • Three Forks Guitar Company
  • Three Quarter Scale Guitars
  • Thumb Rest Basses
  • Thunderhead Extended Range
  • Tidal Bore Bass
  • Tidewater Lutherie
  • Tie Block Classical
  • Tiger Stripe Maple Lutherie
  • Tight Grain Guitar Company
  • Tillman Cousins Guitar Co.
  • Tin & Timber
  • Tin Roof Guitar Mfg.
  • Tiple & Cuatro Makers
  • Tollbridge Deluxe

T, continued

  • Tolliver Mfg.
  • Tone Bar Steel Guitars
  • Tone Pot Custom Shop
  • Tonewood Trail Guitars
  • Tonic & Fifth Bass
  • Tool Room Custom Shop
  • Topsail Series
  • Tornavoz Classical Guitars
  • Torrefied Guitar Co.
  • Towpath Series
  • Trade Wind Ukuleles
  • Trailhead Travel Guitars
  • Transparent Drive Circuits
  • Travel Light Acoustics
  • Treble Booster Row
  • Trebuchet Instruments
  • Tremolo Bulb Amps
  • Trench Low Instruments
  • Trestle Deluxe
  • Trip Hammer Custom Shop
  • Tritone Sub Guitars
  • True Bypass Circuits
  • Tube Chart Amps
  • Tumbleweed Junction Guitars
  • Tundra Wolf Guitars
  • Turnaround Custom Shop
  • Turret Board Amps
  • Twelve Bar Guitar Works
  • Twelve Fret Join Guitars
  • Twelve Inch Speaker Works
  • Twelve String Foundry
  • Two Hands Guitars
  • Two-Lane Guitars
  • Type Five Single Cut
  • Type One Offset
  • Type Three Double Cut

U: 10 names

  • Uchida Guitars
  • Ulvestad Guitars
  • Umber Sky Guitars
  • Umbra Multiscale
  • Umbrielle
  • Uncle Ferris Guitar Co.
  • Undertow Bass
  • Union Hall Electric
  • Upstroke Stringworks
  • Uptown Archtops

V: 10 names

  • Valdris Guitars
  • Vamp & Riff Customs
  • Van Rensing & Zonen
  • Varga Guitars
  • Varsity Electric Guitars
  • Velcro Fuzz Effects
  • Vennacott Guitars
  • Vespers Acoustics
  • Voiced Top Luthiers
  • Voidline Guitars

W: 38 names

  • W. F. Dunstan, Luthier
  • Waiting List Guitars
  • Walking Line Basses
  • Wall of Wool Effects
  • Waltz Time Guitars
  • Wapiti Guitars
  • Warm Bias Amps
  • Watchtower Standard
  • Water Tower Deluxe
  • Waterwheel Twelve
  • Wax Potted Guitar Works
  • Waxwing Guitar Co.
  • Weathervane Standard
  • Well Water Acoustics
  • Westmarch Guitars
  • Wetherby Guitar Co.
  • Wexcombe
  • Whale Song Bass
  • Whippoorwill Guitars
  • Whisper Top Guitars
  • Whistle Stop Guitars
  • Whitcombe Fretted Instruments
  • White Hart Guitar Co.
  • White Limba Guitars
  • Whitlock Guitar Co.
  • Whole Step Fretworks
  • Wick & Ember
  • Widow Tansley's Guitars
  • Wild Thyme Acoustics
  • Wilhelmina Dray Guitars
  • Windfall Timber Guitars
  • Windmill Special
  • Winter Wheat Acoustics
  • Wolf River Guitars
  • Wood Thrush Guitars
  • Wool & Wire Acoustics
  • Wraithwood Guitars
  • Wyndcliff

X: 1 name

  • Xanthe Guitars

Y: 6 names

  • Yarborough & Sons
  • Yarrow & Rue Lutherie
  • Yew Tree Guitars
  • Yonder Fretted Instruments
  • Ysolde
  • Yusuf Demirci Guitars

Z: 5 names

  • Zeller Guitars
  • Zennor Guitars
  • Zephrine Guitars
  • Zinc & Zither
  • Ziricote Lutherie