About All about our guitars

Welcome to Virgil Guitars

I've been an artist and guitarist since the 1970s, and after more than 35 years of playing guitar, I decided to start building the kind of instruments I wanted to play myself. From the beginning, my goal was to build guitars that feel exceptional in your hands, sound great, and have a look and character all their own.

Every Virgil Guitar is handcrafted and one-of-a-kind. No two guitars are exactly alike. Rather than mass-producing instruments and repeating the same designs, I build each guitar individually, with particular attention to playability, tone, wood selection, carving, inlay and all the small details that make an instrument unique.

After taking a few years away from building, Virgil Guitars is back. I'm doing things a little differently this time around. I am no longer accepting commissioned custom builds. Instead, I'll be building a limited number of guitars based on the designs, woods and ideas that inspire me, and those instruments will be offered for sale as they become available.

I've always built each guitar as if it might be the last guitar I ever make. That hasn't changed. These aren't production guitars, and I'm not interested in becoming a production guitar company. I'm simply back at the bench making unique instruments when inspiration strikes.

Most current builds and works in progress will be posted on Virgil Guitars on Facebook. Finished instruments that are available for purchase can be found in the For Sale section of this website.

If you'd like to see what owners of Virgil Guitars have said about their instruments over the years, read the testimonials. You can also visit the Gallery/Sold section to see guitars I've built through the years.

Thanks for visiting Virgil Guitars!