Soares'y specializes in tenor guitars with 4 and 8 strings.  Their guitar bodies are reminiscent of the old, classic Gibson styles.

Amistar manufactures metal and wood guitars.  They started making Tricone bodies in 1991 and became the first on the market since the Second World War.

Breedlove makes all kinds of guitars from electric to acoustic to Atlas Series.  They have an Extraordinary Experience of spending a weekend in the outdoors of Oregon to inspire ones creative side.  This includes an instrument allowance.

Earnest Instruments manufacture mandolins, electric mandolins, ukuleles and tenor guitars.  Natural and manufactured materials are combined with appropriate adhesives and fasteners, at optimum humidity, to insure the stability and durability of the instruments.

Fletcher Instruments offers a line of hand- crafted tenor guitars built by Jamie Dougan.Originally intended for tenor banjo players and tuned in fifths, this instrument is tuned an octave lower than a fiddle or mandolin.

Gold Tone specializes in building banjos.  These range all the way to guitar like banjitars, and six string banjos, mandolins, tenor guitars, and even Lap Steels.