Jack West performs on his new Jeff Traugott 8-string:
This unique guitar features the Novax fanned fret design developed by Ralph Novak.
Taku Sakashta (Sonoma, California,) brings a unique sense of design to the art of lutherie:
Notice the arch top guitar on the left. It has rounded sides with no corner edges at all. This is one amazing guitar!
Check out the corner treatment on Taku's cutaway flat top guitar:
This guy really has style.
Ted Megas drove from his shop in San Francisco where he builds traditional and modern arch top jazz guitars for clients all over the world:
Ric McCurdy had to come a lot farther to show off his instruments:
His shop is in New York, NY, the traditional home of fine American jazz guitars.
Ed Claxton and his wife, Maggie, show us a cutaway fingerstyle guitar made of Indian rosewood and German spruce.
Ed's shop is in Santa Cruz, very near Jeff Traugott, Rick Turner, and the Santa Cruz Guitar Co.
Chuck Ogsbury (on the left) has been a banjo maker since 1960. Most all banjo players are familiar with his fine OME banjos:
Standing next to him is the ever elegant Duke of Pearl (Chuck Erikson.) This Chuck has been supplying pearl inlay materials to the trade for almost as long as the other Chuck has been doing pearl inlay. Guess that makes him an old-timer, too!