About Me- Roger Wendover

Email: artisanguitarrepair@gmail.com        Phone: 608-738-2497

I am  a Luthier since 1984 having built eleven acoustic and five electric guitars along with about 150 cigar box instruments I call the BroJo. I have also had opportunity to build some fun, interesting instruments. My favorite was a commissioned Banjo Bass. It's a full size stand up String Bass made from a marching band kick drum. It is on YouTube right HERE.

From 1997 to 2003, I repaired fretted instruments in store for Light's Music Center in Eugene, Oregon until they closed their doors,  and afterward as Artisan Guitar Repair until the fall of 2009, when I moved to Wisconsin with my family to care for my wife's grandma in the last years of her life. In 2020, we decided to return to Eugene where Artisan Guitar Creations/Repair currently resides.

In 2004, with the help of John Polk (RIP), from Terrapin Guitars, I launched woodpickguards.com focusing on offering beautiful wood veneer pickguards, mostly for electric guitar and bass, while John focused on plastic guards of all kinds.  My earlier acoustic pickguards were exclusively double ply with a thickness of apx. .036. but after experimenting with single ply wood veneer in 2011, I  launched the ThinWood guards from my newest artisanguitarcreations.com. I recently updated to an OpenCart format for ordering convenience.

As a Luthier,

Thanks for checking out my site. Now go play some guitar!

Roger Wendover