Guitar Repair and Construction Program Graduates

Graduates of the program are now working for Bourgeois, Collings, Benedetto, Gruhn, Gallager, Macphearson, Hoffman, Elderly and many other fine builders and shops. We have alumni working in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Thailand, Japan and Oman.

Three graduates of the program currently work with Bourgeois Guitars in Maine. Here Dana Bourgeois holds a prototype guitar they all had a hand in building.

“Over the years I’ve hired from all the major guitar schools. None are consistently better prepared for work in my shop than graduates from Southeast Technical. Right now I have three on my staff. Next time I have an opening I know where to look.” — Dana Bourgeois

Graduates in the Field

Steve Rossow, Minneapolis, MN: custom guitars and mandolins

Tim Reede, Minneapolis, MN: custom archtop, acoustic and electric guitars

Gordy Bischoff, Eau Claire, WI: custom acoustic guitars

Jamon Zeiler, Rising Sun, IN: custom acoustic guitars

Gary Bartig, G. Edward Lutherie, Minneapolis, MN: designer and maker of the Eminence Portable Acoustic Upright Bass and the Dahlia 5-String Violin