Gareth Jenkins has been a part of Thompson guitars since the beginning of our shop in Sisters, Oregon. He has done many different jobs in the shop from body assembly, set-up and tone specialist. He has selected our tops and […]
News from the Shop
Events, updates and fun news from our workshop in Sisters, Oregon.
Each year Simon goes all out on special inlay orders. The array of requests are far reaching allowing Simon to sink his teeth into the creativity of each one. His meticulous artistic eye seeks all types of material to use […]
We love to share our year in photos, always fun to look at all the things we did, the people we met up with, the guitars we made and the crew that makes them! Thanks for your support and helping […]
This new guitar came out of an original build that Preston developed years ago calling it the Classical Hybrid. It was inspired by one of our customers wish to have something similar to Willie Nelson’s “Trigger” guitar that was modified […]
This year at our 2025 annual NW Flatpick Camp we invited instructor Dillon Hodges to come to the Pacific Northwest. He is long time friends with Tim May who was also in attendance along with Chris Luquette rounding out this […]
What a fun year of making guitars, hanging with some of our favorite people and enjoying life at this small guitar shop. Love this crew and what we do! Come visit : )
These photos capture the essence of our summer – we had a great time with visitors to the shop as the crew was busy making custom guitars. Come visit if you are in the area! Thanks to the set-up crew […]
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 […]
All Sinker Mahogany – 12 fret Parlor and 14 fret Single 0 – Short and Long Scale We have (8) more sets of either Size 2 or Single 0 All Sinker Mahogany to make these special little guitars. You can […]
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 […]
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