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WM Guitars

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

WMC

Image WMC guitar - made in Japan eBay:

Bobby Wolfe

Bobby Wolfe makes ported resophonic guitars in North Carolina USA.

http://www.rickbriggs.com/Wolfe.htm

Wolfram Guitar Company

Wolfram Guitar Co was founded Columbus, Ohio by Theodore Wolfram. From around 1892 he used the Triumph brand name. 1901 placed in receivership. Continued as the Wolfram Guitar & Mandolin Co until 1910. [Source: Mugwumps] Patents included metal fretboard.

Images eBay:

Wolfrum

http://jazzgitarren.k-server.org/othersddr.html

Example at http://www.musikkeller.com

Jason Wolverton

Bruce F Wood

1997 to present

Classical and flamenco guitars. Santa Barbara, California , USA

Norman Wood

Norman Wood (d 1997) made guitars and mandolins in Sennen, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Images 1979 Wood guitar eBay:

Randy Wood builds guitars in Bloomingdale, Georgia, USA

"I started building mandolins in 1968. I didn't stat using serial numbers until approx 1976, however most of my guitars and mandolins are signed and dated on the underside of the top. Serial numbers are also the date.1st number indicates the number of that instrument that month. 2nd one or two number indicates the month that instrument was made. Last two numbers are the year that instrument was made. Example : 1675= 1st inst. of June, 1975." [Source: Randy Wood Guitars, email 2/4/2008]

Phillip Woodfield Guitars

current

Classical guitars, England

Woodfield bio

Image courtesy of Classic Guitar:

Martin Woodhouse

1999 to present

Apprenticed with David Rubio. Shop in Cambridge, England

Image moschella :

Woodshop

1950s

Netherlands http://www.daisybelle.nl/nedgit.htm

Image Daisybelle

Woodtone Guitars

Australian handcrafted guitars by Barry Kerr, Alexandra, Victoria, Australia

Reviews are at Harmony Central

Woody

Made in Japan

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

Woody Custom Instruments

Luthier, Jarrko Lindholm, Woody Custom Instruments, FINLAND.  Pages for woodyguitars.com available on Internet archive in early 2000s.

Woody Guitar models 2004 from the internet archive

Woody Woodcaster

Exotic wood guitars, Tampa, Florida

2000 to present

"I started in 2000.

It's clearly written on the label but also "coded" in the serial number.

For example WSC-LG-0840 is and "LG" model made in 2008 and is my 40th instrument. [Source: Paul Woolson, email 18/3/2008]

Wootton

Russ Wootton builds fine small-bodied acoustic guitars inspired by the American tradition of steel-strung guitars but the constructed like classical and Spanish luthiers. Shropshire, England

Worco

By Harmony. Image Broadway Music:

" Adolph Hitler's love for the Dobro became an obsession with him, and in 1937 he proclaimed that every German family would have a resonator instrument in their home. In 1937 he commissioned Italian luthier, Vito Worconni, to design a low-budget resonator guitar to be called the "Blitzenplecker." The guitar had a coverplate screwed to the twoply body, without a cone or resonator. The sound was so inferior that the project was abandoned. In 1939 Worconni fled to the US and settled in Chicago.

In 1947 Kay of Chicago built bodies for Worconni's student guitars. These instruments were sold at J.J.Newberry and W.T.Grant stores for $6.95 retail. [Source: Guitar Seminars]

Worland Guitars

1997 to present

Worthy Guitars

1996 to present

My first guitar was in '82, but I started 'for real' in 1996 when I moved from Sydney to Melbourne.  I now live outside Melbourne in Cockatoo.  I have a workshop at home.

Dating Worthy guitars

The label (inside) has the month and year.

The serial number is for eg.  A recent guitar, model called a Sunbeam has Serial # 54SB9.... meaning guitar number 54, SB for Sunbeam and 9 being the 9th Sunbeam.

The model Name/Type is also on the label along with the timbers used for the top, back and sides, fretboard, and bridge." [Source: David Worthy, email, 31/7/2008 ]

Thomas J Wray

~2004 to present

I am Thomas J. Wray, a builder of custom steel and nylon stringed instruments.  I built my first guitar when I was in my early teens under my
father's direction.  I did not build any more instruments until I was in my thirties and then only as a hobby.  My interest and proficiency increased
slowly and I started to produce as a full time endeavour in 2007. All my guitars have a label in the usual spot, visible from the sound hole & glued
to the back. Earlier models are dated on the label by month & year

E.g.: 11~2004 while more current models have a serial number stamped on the neck block.  E.g.: 42008 means fourth guitar of 2008.  All my instruments are also signed and dated inside, on the sound board, lower bout, treble side, just before the box is closed up. See attached photos.  I produce 12 to 16 custom instruments per year in a small basement studio in our home, Burnaby, BC, Canada." [Source: Tom Wray, email 14/8/2008 ]

WRC Music International

1989-1990s

Guitars by Wayne Richard Charvel.

Graham D Wright

see GDW

Wright Guitar Technology

1993 to present

Rossco Wright, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Wurlitzer guitars

Wurlitzer brand was put on guitars made by others, including Holman Woodell guitar factory, Neodesha, Kansas.

http://www.wurlitzerguitars.com/

http://www.gearwire.com/wurlitzer-guitar.html

http://www.myrareguitars.com/wurlitzergemini.html

First image below courtesy Saul Koll, The Gear Page Forum. Others from ebay

Wurlitzer Cougar 12 string, solid body, electric guitar made in the USA between 1965-1967 by the Holman-Woodell Guitar Company in Neodesha, KS