"Fender", "Stratocaster", and "Strat", are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC). Site and content, © 2006-20 13 JP Holesworth unless otherwise noted. Point being, John has been around guitar building his entire life, and is now doing it his way, so check 'em out! John spent a few years at Gibson Custom Shop, and then on to First Act, a difficult experience as the owners/investors were not guitar people, nuff said about that. I've been helping out Vault Pickups (another very new stealth outfit) which are standard equipment in John's guitars. I got to hang with John a few months ago and play some of his prototypes. So it's evidently been chillin' in the alps for awhile.Īnd Speaking of Valley Arts, Mike's son John is in the early stages of launching John McGuire Guitars. This one appears very clean and original with an all maple 7/8" scale body and no fret wear according to the listing. Valley Arts built signature model guitars for Steve Lukather, Larry Carlton and other mostly LA based guitarists. They started in the 70's, then sold to Samick in '92, and were later picked up by Gibson. Mike McGuire of Valley Arts was one of A merica's very first boutique electric guitar builders. A 1990 Valley Arts guitar is an original McGuire USA instrument.
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