Robert Benedetto (born 1946) began making guitars in 1968 in New Jersey. He is known for pioneering a modern school of arch-top design that simplified the ornate, traditional style of D Angelico and D'Aquisto. ln 1999, he was hired by the Fender company to consult on its Guild
ne of arch-tops When the agreement with Fender ended, in 2006, he opened Benedetto Guitars in Savannah. Georgia. A team of fourteen builders currently produces forty guitars a month. Benedetto himself continues to build one-off custom-order guitars. He was one of twenty-one luthiers
commissioned by collector Scott Chinery to build a blue arch-top
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