Renee Karnes has been building and repairing banjos for a long time and really has her act down:
Working alone in her shop in Rescue, California, she makes some of the most extravagant instruments available anywhere:
Steve Swan (right) and Richard Hoover have a good time together:
Richard's the owner and founder of Santa Cruz Guitar Company. Steve's got his own retail shop in Kensington and is frequently on hand to help out at SCGC.
Yes, that's a left handed guitar Steve is holding. He's left handed too, but actually plays righty.
Roy McAlister is an alumnus of SCGC and makes his own instruments in Watsonville:
As a special celebration of their 600,000th instrument, the Martin Guitar Company commissioned famed artist, Larry Robinson, to create the most elaborately inlaid Martin guitar ever:
Martin representative, Joe McNamara, proudly showed off Martin's latest new instruments:
Alex deGrassi (left,) Jeff Traugott, and Michael Hornick (right) posed for a quick shot as they packed their instruments to go home after a week of hard schmoozing:
