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Greg Pacetti

1998 to present

Started here In Alaska in 1998 building Resophonic guitars strictly lapstyle square neck, now added to it acoustic guitars and ukulele's  but mostly Acoustic guitars of my own design and an occational bass.  
So far all the instruments are of my own design and are signed and  dated on the inside. I just build a few a year as a part time occupation. " [Source: Greg Pacetti Instruments, 1381 Spring Glade Rd.Fairbanks, Alaska, email 1/8/2008 ]

Image courtesy of Greg Pacetti:

Paco de Lucia

Made by Vicente Carrillo, according to Paco de Lucia's specifications

Paco de Lucia at wikipedia

Image  courtesy of Guitar Salon:

Palmwood Guitars & Stringed Instruments

Michael Palm, luthier, Wellington Point, Australia

Panhuyzen Guitars

1974 to present

"I started building (my first own workshop) in 1974
The label visible through the soundhole has my name, place the guitar was built, the year it was built, and my signature.
For example:
KOLYA PANHUYZEN
TORONTO 1984

signature

[Source: Kolya, Panhuyzen Guitars, email 4/4/2008]

Manouk Papazian

1956 to 1999

luthier (Aug. 18, 1914 to Oct. 21, 1999). Guitars made in Manhattan, USA from 1956 to 1999.

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rogluthier/index.html

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Acoustic+Guitar/brand/Manouk+Papazian

Paradis

http://matthias.grob.org/pParad/Parad.htm

http://onstagemag.com/ar/performance_fivestring_wizard/index.htm

Paragon Guitars

2002 to present

Paragon guitar forum http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/paragonguitars/

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Paragon

A Harmony Brand

http://harmony.demont.net/brands.php

Antonio Raya Pardo

Image: Guitar Salon

Shelley D Park Gypsy Guiitars

Parker

Early 1990s to present

http://www.parkerguitars.com/code/resour/resour_faq.asp

http://www.leftandwrite.com/brian/music/parker/nitefly.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Guitars

http://www.tonequest.com/articles/article26.htm

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Parker+Guitars

Ken Parker Archtops

2007 to present

New York, USA

New Yorker profile Ken Parker

Parkwood

Parkwood acoustic guitars made by Cort for Guitar Center and Musicians Friend.   [Source: Acoustic Guitar Forum 2008]

They are solid wood (top, back and sides).

Dating Parkwood Guitars

Serial number is located inside the guitars body. The first and second numbers are the year it was made. The third and fourth are the month it was made. The last 4 are consecutive serial numbers that are given to production for that year. [Source: Parkwood ]

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Acoustic+Guitar/brand/Parkwood

Parnell

Laurence Parnell, Frome, Somerset, UK

Parson's Instruments

http://www.mandozine.com/resources/CGOW/parsons.php

Patrick Eggle

1991 to present

Patrick Eggle Guitars started in Berlin in 1991.

2005 Patrick Eggle Guitar Catalog

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Patrick+Eggle

Patrick John Eggle

Different guy to above.

see Faith

Pavan Guitars

2004 to present

Made since "2004 in Spain and custom soundboards for the Pavan Prisloe Sinature models are made by myself at my workshop in the United States.  Each guitar has a label with model serial number and year of manufacture." [Source and image courtesy of: Tom Prisloe, Pavan Guitars, email 7/10/2008]

Paul Reed Smith

1985 to present

Some general background on PRS guitars and links to interviews can be found at wikipedia.

Dating PRS Guitars see: http://www.prsguitars.com/csc/year.html

Image of Custom 24 courtesy of G Simon:

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Paul+Reed+Smith+Guitars

PRS Forum http://www.prsforums.com/forums/

Bill Paulin

Electric double basses. Cedar Vale, Queensland, Australia

Pavan

Made in Spain

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Acoustic+Guitar/brand/Pavan

Pawless

1995 to present

Note the complete production history of Pawless guitars is at the Pawless web site.

http://www.ducksdeluxe.com/pawless.html

http://www.pawless.com/

http://www.vincebell.com/gallery01.htm

PBC

1989-1996

Pennsylvania, USA

http://www.bunker-guitars.com/pbc_classics.html

http://www.vintaxe.com/catalogs_american_pbc.htm

http://www.jemsite.com/usa/usa.htm

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/PBC

http://www.musicgearreview.com/review-display/5714.html

see Bunker Guitars

Peavey

1978 to present

the official word from the Peavey web site is to send serial number of your Peavey product by email to customerservice@peavey.com or the Peavey forum at

http://forums.peavey.com:8080/~guitars

http://www.rockandrollweekend.com/index2.html

http://www.peaveyt60.com/index.html

https://store.bluebookinc.com/Info/PDF/EGuitar/ElectricSerialization.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peavey_Electronics

T45 Bass http://www.vintageguitar.com/brands/details.asp?ID=180

1981 Peavey Razer http://www.myrareguitars.com/epeaveyrazer.html

Peavey Wolfgang 1996-2004 http://www.wolfgangguitars.com/

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Peavey

" The serial number is stamped into the back of the headstock of each guitar. There is no date coding within the serial #.
The letter (s) before the numbers will indicate which model it is (i.e. "MVP 1234" = model MVP; serial # 1234)
All you need to know to date a Pedulla guitar is on their web site at http://www.pedulla.com/html/date_your_bass.html

[Source: Christine, Pedulla Guitars, email 24/3/2008]

example http://www.angelfire.com/md2/wrgaphardt/Pedulla94.html

1983 to present

"I established Peekamoose Custom Guitars as a company 25 years ago in 1983.  Prior to starting the current CS line I was making one off totally custom to order instruments, which I still do but most people do not require instruments in the full custom price point.

The instruments shown on the Peekamoose site are our custom shop limited production models.  We began making them in 2003.   The CS instruments shown on the site employ the most requested features of the "one off" instruments but because we have standardized the product line we can make them more cost friendly.

Most of the CS instruments average between $3,700 & $4,700 USD.  The "one off" fully custom designed instruments start at roughly $6,500 up to about $15,000.  I have not kept a photo archive of the one offs.  I was not concerned about keeping track until I began to think of this from a manufacturing perspective.

We make them here at the shop in NYC, USA.  Peekamoose has been building and repairing stringed instruments for 25 years.  Our current location is shop #5.  We moved to the 30th street location in April of 2005.  Before that we were on 46th street for about 18 years. We were in one suite for about five years then moved to a larger suite on the same floor.  Prior to that we were on Broadway for two years. And before that on the east side for about two years.

We build instruments to order and we make a few to keep around as demo models for the shop.  It's a limited production operation, if someone were to buy one from a previous owner, the new owner would have to call or e-mail the shop, give us the serial number and we'd look it up.  There is no clever coded dating scheme.

Anyone purchasing one of our instruments second hand can contact us and we should be able to ID the instrument.  Our company was built on the premise of strong customer support.  We have been doing warranty product support for most of the major guitar manufacturers for as long as we have been in business.  Doing that level of support has been and continues to be a very useful education."

[Source: Paul Schwartz, Peekamoose Custom Guitars, New York, email 21/7/2008]

2000 to present

"Les Guitares Pellerin  (Pellerin Guitars).  We make acoustic steel strings guitars in Quebec (Canada).

The company started in 2000 (officially) , but I've started guitarmaking in 1998.  The shop is in Thetford Mines, province of Quebec (CANADA).

Example of serial number:    #560608  
Coding system

4 last numbers are the date we finish the guitar, so here is June 2008 (06/08)

The first numbers are guitar by order of time, so here is the 56th guitar that we built." [Michel Pellerin, email 15/8/2008 ]

Pellerin guitars at myspace

Michel Pellerin, Gilbert Blais, Quebec, Canada

Pegasus

http://www.ducksdeluxe.com/pegasus.html

http://vintageguitarpro.com/penco.shtml

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Penco

made by Hoshino

Erez Perelman

Image: Perelman

Teodoro Perez

1991 to present

Madrid, Spain

"I started to work in 1966 in Jose Ramirez III workshop and I started to make my own guitars on 1991." [Source: Teodoro Perez, email, 27/7/2008 ]

Image courtesy of Guitar Salon International:

Perlgold

http://www.harpguitars.net/history/makers.htm

http://www.greenbuddha.de/guitars/index_b.php?mod=perlgold&lang=de

Perlgold 1954 catalog http://jazzgitarren.k-server.org/perlgold.html

Perlman Guitars

Alan Perlman,

Perron Custom Guitars

http://www.ducksdeluxe.com/perron.html

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Perron

2003 to presentr

"My guitars are numbered and dated on the labels. I started in 2003 and am producing about 8 guitars a year." [Source: Michael Peters, www.petersguitars.com  email 17,4,2008]

I also have a serial number stamped into the neck block starting with my 33rd guitar. I built 32 guitars in my first phase of building and they are hand labeled. After a 5 year break where I built pipe organs, I reorganized and redesigned everything. The serial number of that first guitar in phase two is 32001. The 32 signifies the first 32 guitars, you then add the other numbers to 32 to get the actual number in order. So all subsequent serial numbers start with 32. Or, the last three numbers show the chronologic order in phase 2! Simple, yet complex! Thanks. [Source: Bruce Petros, Petros Guitars, Inc. 345 County Rd. CE. Kaukauna, WI 54130. , email 21/3/2008]

PGM Guitars

http://www.guitarsjapan.com/pgminfopage.html

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~dz6k-ysd/

http://www.nymphusa.com/tele/vanzandte.asp

http://toguitars.com/gallery-japan/pgm-guitars.htm

Woody Phifer

Sherwood T (Woody) Phifer, New York area luthier

Profile article

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Woody+Phifer

see LoBue

Ron Phillips Metal Guitars

1992 to present

Phoenix Guitar Company

1994 to present

George Leach made guitars under the "GSL" brand then in 1994 to Phoenix Guitar Company.  Scottsdale Arizona.

Pickard Acoustics

1982 to present

"I started in 1982.  I make them in a workshop at my home (currently in Lincolnshire, UK). The label in my instruments always has the date (month and year) of manufacture - nowadays it is in the format of 07-08 and is preceded by a number denoting the total instruments to date. Each instrument also has it's own unique number." [Source: Ivor Pickard, email 12/7/2008 ]

Pickard Guitars

Jason Pickard, USA

Pimental and Sons

1951 to present

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Pimentel Price Lists

Pimentel pricelist 2000

Pimentel pricelist 2003

Pimentel pricelist 2005

Oliver Planchon

current

France

Jose Marin Plazuelo

Apprenticed for his uncle Antonio Marin Montero from 1974. [Source: Zavelatas ]

Image courtesy of Guitar Salon International:

Pleasant

Japanese electric guitar brand from 1960s [Source: Vintaxe ]

Pleasant guitar being played

Poling Guitars

current

Dublin, Ohio, USA

Leo Posch

Poulsen Guitars

Olivier Pozzo

Nimes, France

A Harmony Brand

http://harmony.demont.net/brands.php

Marc Prave

2004 to present

M. Prave Guitar Works, Curwensville, PA USA

bio

myspace

Premier

A Harmony Brand

http://harmony.demont.net/brands.php

Premier amp catalog

http://www.harpamps.com/premier/premier.html

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Premier

Prenkert