This is a list of luthiers for classical guitar. These are not recommendations but just a list of known, living and working guitar makers with websites. If you want a specific recommendation feel free to contact me. In order to be on the list you either have to be a name I know or have a website and reputation for verification.
Email Bradford to update this list: bradford@thisisclassicalguitar.com
Two luthiers I’ve had lots of experience with are Douglass Scott and Marcus Dominelli who are both luthiers from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. I own a guitar from both of them. Their guitars are played by some of the biggest names around the world and they both make instruments that I personally guarantee are amazing. Feel free to email about them.
Argentina
Australia
- Hawkes, Graham – Woodbridge, Western Australia
- Kellaway, Dan – Stewarts Brook, New South Wales
- Redgate, Jim – Adelaide, South Australia
- Rovis-Hermann, Simon – Fremantle, Western Australia
- Smallman, Greg & Sons – Esperance, Western Australia
Belgium
- Gilles Lescot – Maffe
Canada
- Blackwell, Martin – British Columbia
- Boutin, Bruno – Magog, Québec
- Chiasson, Ross – Kingston, Ontario
- Dominelli, Marcus – Victoria, British Columbia
- Freeman, David – Tugaske, Saskatchewan
- Jaderny, Kamil – Mont Tremblant, Québec
- de Jonge, Joshia – Alcove, Québec
- Kingma, Evan – – Grimsby, Ontario
- Laramee, Francois – St-François-du-Lac, Québec
- Lazar, Michael – St. Albert, Alberta
- Letourneau Guitars – Morinville, Alberta
- Mailloux, Patrick – Québec City, Québec
- Morrish, Iain (Moorish Guitars) – Calgary, Alberta
- Mesquita, Luis Feu de – Greenwood, Ontario
- Mueller, Fritz – Tatlayoko Lake, British Columbia
- Perry, Daryl – Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Robert, Mikhail – Victoria, British Columbia
- Rompré, Jean -Saint-Majorique, Québec
- Ryer, David – Madoc, Ontario Canada
- Salomons, Ken – Calgary, Alberta
- Scott, Douglass – Ladysmith, British Columbia (Bradford Plays a Scott)
- Sigurdson, Jeff – Abbotsford, British Columbia
- Shaw, Emily – Ottawa, Ontario
- Titmuss, Clive – Kelowna, British Columbia
- Tremblay, Scot – Victoria, British Columbia
- Vorreiter, Florian – Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Wilhelmy, René – Montréal, Québec
Czech Republic
England
UK Classical Guitar Luthiers under respective countries.
- Simon Ambridge
- Kevin Aram
- Brian Cohen
- Christopher Dean
- Martin Douglas
- Paul Fischer
- Tony Johnson
- James Lister
- José Marques
- Richard Newman
- Jose Romanillos
- Zachary Taylor
Germany
Hungary
Lebanon
- Robert Wissam (Beirut)
Mexico
- Juan Carlos Huipe
- Francisco Navarro
- Daniel Caro Leonardo
Poland
Puerto Rico
Romania
- Samuel Zamfir de Souza (Link Pending)
Scotland
Serbia
Spain
United States of America
- Randy Angella – Concord, CA
- Thomas Beltran Guitars, Los Angeles, CA
- Tom Blackshear – San Antonio, TX
- John S. Bogdanovich – Swannanoa, NC
- Greg S. Brandt – Hollywood, CA
- R.E. Brune – Evanston, IL
- Gregory Byers – Willits CA
- Christopher Carrington – Rockwall, TX
- Matthew Chaffin, Orion, Michigan
- Michael Cone – Maui, HI
- Stephan Connor, Boston, MA
- Luis Fernández de Córdoba – Alexandria, VA
- David Daley – Unknown
- Lester Devoe, CA
- John H. Dick, West Branch, IA
- Jeffrey Elliott – Portland, OR
- Miguel Acevedo Flores – Trujillo Alto, PR.
- Allan Fontanilla -San Francisco, CA
- Steve Ganz – Blaine, WA
- Aaron Green – Groton, MA
- Ross Gutmeier, Baltimore, MD
- Kenny Hill – Ben Lomond, CA
- David LaPlante – Unknown
- Garrett Lee – Wayne, NJ
- John E. Mello – Kensington, CA
- Eric Monrad – Healdsburg, CA
- Filippo Morelli – Virginia
- Peter Oberg – San Diego, CA
- Robert O’Brien, Parker, Colorado
- Jose Oribe – Vista, CA
- David Pace – Baltimore, Maryland
- Alan Perlman – Unknown
- Richard Prenkert – Santa Rosa, CA
- Tom Prisloe – Trumansburg, NY
- Richard Reynoso, LA, CA
- Aaron Ringo (Wood Ring Guitars) – Weatherford, TX
- Matt Rubendall – Brooklyn, NY
- Toby Rzepka – Portland, ME
- German Vazquez Rubio – Los Angeles – CA
- Dave Schramm – Clovis, CA
- Michael Thames – Santa Fe, NM
- Dake Traphagen – Bellingham, WA
- Peter Tsiorba -Portland, OR
- Zebulon Turrentine, Tennessee
- Paul Weaver, Portand, OR