The European Guitar Builders is an alliance formed by professional independent European luthiers.
We are dedicated to support each other by sharing knowledge, resources, and experience in order to preserve and innovate the art and craft of guitar building in Europe as a vital part of our musical culture.
We strive to support musicians in expressing and developing their art through collaborating closely with them, thereby fostering the European musical culture.
We want to promote sustainable development, ecologic awareness and economic growth in an ethical way. A major goal is to educate consumers about the values they support by their choices and how this impacts the goals of the association.
In order to achieve these goals the association will create and maintain a strong presence in the Internet and Media and organize events like the EGB Symposium and an annual international guitar exhibition.
For more details about EGB refer to the Q & A section or download the bylaws below.
EGB By-laws (english courtesy version)
The European Guitar Builders was founded with the goal of organizing the independent luthiers as well as people related to the field of guitar building all across Europe.
We offer various benefits for members - free literature, access to our forum, knowledge base and much more!
The EGB Community Build / Electric Guitar: EGB Community Build: An Electric Guitar
We asked exhibitors at the Holy Grail Guitar Show 2018 what - in their opinion - is so special about hand-built custom guitars. This is what some of them ...
Click on the image to download your copy of the 2017 EGB Yearbook!
Read more about the EGB and CITES regulations, including a resource page which will be updated continuously: EGB Position on CITES and related regulations
'About Tonewoods -- take the online listening challenge' is a survey by the Leonardo Guitar Research Project, which will be available until June 26th: ...