ARC Guitar Building School

02/28/2026

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02/28/2026

Saturday March 14 from 10am-4pm. Please share!

02/28/2026

Saturday March 14 from 10am-4pm. Free admission! Please share!

09/22/2024

https://www.wintersexpress.com/features/brazilian-guitar-maker-returns-to-winters-after-10-years-for-collaboration-friendship/article_cef8af4e-76e1-11ef-aed8-6367a7f24e83.html

Marcello Rizzi wasn’t naive. He realized that his trumpet-playing talents weren’t quite going to cut it when it came to making a living in the real world — so the

08/09/2024

This is my apprentice Marcello Rizzi from Brazil. He and I built all of these guitars together in the last two months! The real show piece is the solid rosewood telecaster like the one George Harrison used at the last Beatle concert, and we built two of them! In all we built 14 guitars. He first found me 10 years ago and studied under me for a year. Now he’s in Brazil making guitars and selling them to Grammy award winners! He’s built 58 guitars in the last ten years. How about that?

01/10/2024

The owner was thrilled to receive his fully restored 104 year old Hilo Hawaiian lap steel guitar. Happy day!

11/29/2023

Build your dream guitar with us! Payment plans available. Call (530) 795-1795. Ask about our Holiday Specials.

09/12/2022

A rosewood dreadnaught cutaway built by a student at ARC Guitar.

11/17/2021

Another guitar almost completed!

08/02/2021

Start to finish in three weeks! Taking students now for winter 2022.

06/30/2019

Students at work