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Old 01-12-2017, 12:40 AM
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Gallagher Guitars...Don Sr. and Don Jr....and Mossman Guitars...Stuart Mossman...really begat the Boutique...small shop...guitar builder emergence and prominence.

Michael Gurian, Gurian Guitars is really one of the absolute founding fathers of North American Luthierie...along with Jean Larrivee.

Ervin Somogyi...really began, along with perhaps David Russell Young, the iteration of the very high end/high art/craft luthier, and his work on the super responsive fingerstyle guitar design was and is industry defining, along with his many noteworthy apprentices/protege's.

James Olson...the refining of the SJ body style...and elevating the highly intensive use of maching work/tooling and jigs in a very small shop, meticulous production method...to a high art form...honorable mention here again to Michael Gurian.

David Russell Young and John Greven for introducing the highly stylistic and highly artful "landcaping" use of all hand made decorative pearl inlay on the modern steel string guitar...especially in headstock and fingerboard inlay designs...long before Wendy Larrivee and Grit Laskin et al...

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