Inside the Bearsville Theater, one of the exhibit halls for the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase.
John Monteleone originally created this custom archtop, a celebration of his 40th anniversary as a professional luthier, for Eric Clapton.
The headstock of John Monteleone’s 40th anniversary custom archtop.
New York luthier Rodrigo Shopis specializes in Django-style jazz guitars. This D’Artagnan Model F is based on a Favino design.
Jazz legend John McLaughlin commissioned Italian luthier Mirko Borghino to create this new version of the Shakti guitar, originally built by Gibson in the ’70s. The guitar has seven sympathetic strings and a scalloped fretboard that allows sitar-like string bending.
Zachary Shryer-Lefebvre of TreeHouse Guitars hand-burns custom artwork on many of his guitars, like this chickadee on the Sitka spruce top of a grand auditorium model.
The back of the TreeHouse grand auditorium, with chickadee artwork burned onto poplar inlay.
Maryland’s Beard Guitars offers this R-B resonator bass as part of its line of square-neck and round-neck resonator instruments.
This 12-fret 00 is a new creation of the Martin Guitar custom shop.
Martin’s custom 12-fret 00 has 1902-style tree-of-life inlay.
The redwood on this Sifel Creek guitar, by Michael Byle, comes from Tunnel 13, which was blown up with dynamite in the disastrous “last great train robbery” of 1923.