Sharing our guitars via musicians on the stage gives folks a chance to hear our sound and that is important with so few of our guitars in the world. Also having a small booth in the artist area gives us […]
Thompson Artists
News and updates from our endorsing artists.
Over the years we have hosted several artist workshops in and around our shop to share the sound of our guitars. During the most recent Sisters Folk Festival we were able to hear several talented guitar players pick on different […]
As time marches on we are always happy to have new players enjoying the sounds of their Thompson guitars built in our custom shop here in Sisters, Oregon. We meet these players in many different ways and some of those […]
Take a listen to Teja Gerken, from Peghead Nation, reviewing Chris Luquette’s 00-14Fret Mahogany/Adirondack Sunburst guitar. We love to build these powerful small bodied guitar for our customers and dealers. Whether you like a 12 or 14 fret/ long or […]
We are happy to announce that Molly Tuttle has helped design her own Signature Dreadnought made out of Sinker Mahogany with special appointments and inlay. To help design the guitar we talked about what inlay to create, color of the […]
Thompson Featured Artist CD Handmade to Hand Played Over the past year we have been working on completing this CD with the intention of helping out with Preston’s medical funds. The medical costs ended up being covered and so we […]
We have been working on several new guitars for the talented Jon Stickley, Jake Stargel, John Cruz and Brett Bass – we are excited to ship them out soon and can’t wait to hear how they like the sound of […]
Time in the day goes by so quickly here at the guitar shop and sometimes doing research, like listening to our featured artists, can feel like a luxury. Today, one day after Billy Strings 26th birthday, I took that luxury […]
Next Generation of Thompson Flatpickers Preston Thompson started building guitars right round the time that Hot Rize was just forming in Boulder, Colorado. As Preston refined his craft into the mid 1980’s so was Charles Sawtelle and Peter Rowan. They […]
NEW THOMPSON ARTISTS TIM STAFFORD, MOLLY TUTTLE, FORREST O’CONNOR and PETE KARTSOUNES Tim Stafford is a consummate professional, an award winning instrumentalist, prolific songwriter, vocalist, and educator – an everything musician with a longstanding career (25 years) in the award […]
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