Make Your Own Thompson Here in our little shop we keep with tradition in many ways and in others we offer up different appointments to keep our guitars one-of-a-kind offering a variety of original torches, custom inlays, different sunburst and […]
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We wanted to share some of the events, music and guitar making that happened in 2023! What a great year it has been with several awesome crew joining the team here in Sisters. The talent and passion that we all […]
Guitars and more… This year we found ourselves at The Fretboard Journal Summit for the 2nd time and we enjoyed it just as much as the 1st time, maybe a bit more as we had our own room and the […]
His career has spanned decades and Peter Rowan will be honored this September at the IBMA awards as an inductee into the Hall of Fame. We are proud to be a small part of his musical journey and are happy […]
Each guitar model and the tonewood that we build with can lend itself to different playing styles. Our Dreadnoughts capture the power and playability that bluegrass players love for flatpicking. The harder you play the louder it gets – our […]
Using a mix of materials to capture a design or image Here at the shop we are able to take a customers’ inlay ideas and make it a reality by using a variety of materials. Simon Haycraft has the ability […]
The GeoDeco design on this all mahogany OM adds a modern look. It is accented with turquoise reconstituted stone, mother of pearl and mahogany wood pieces making for a very eye catching original torch. The old style dots on the […]
OO-14 Fret Short Scale – Quilted Western Maple – Adirondack Bearclaw Top We are excited to begin sharing parts of the process in the making of our 2nd Masterpiece guitar, which is a 00-14 Fret Short Scale Quilted Western Maple […]
The world of fly fishing relates to Thompson guitars on many levels. One being that most of the shop crew are fly fishermen. They enjoy Central Oregon for all it has to offer with the Metolius and the Deschutes rivers […]