KOENTOPP GUITARS

The golden age of guitar making is now. The guitar, as we know it, is held at the dark constraints of factory mass production. Guitar makers, growing by the minute, strive to bring the guitar into new light. String instrument design reached perfection more than 300 years ago and it is here, where answers lie..... I started taking guitar lessons at age seven and from that point the guitar became a lifelong passion... My father, an architect, and my mother, an artist, were the creative influences that helped sow the seeds that would lead to my future. In an effort to learn more about the instrument, I went to the public library and was amazed and inspired by a shelf full of books on the construction of the guitar. At age 14, I asked my parents if I could turn a basement closet into a small workshop. That was where, with the help of my father, I made my first guitar.