My name is Michihiro Matsuda. I was born in Nagoya and raised in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the Robert Venn School of Lutherie in Phoenix, Arizona, I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area for an apprenticeship with master luthier Ervin Somogyi.

Following my apprenticeship, I studied guitar repair with renowned instrument repairman Frank Ford of Gryphon Stringed Instruments, where I am currently a member of the repair staff.

I make around ten to twelve custom guitars each year at my lutherie studio in Oakland, California. Each of my guitars is unique, personal, and individual, even if it is one of my basic models.

Although The guitar is the tool the performer uses to express themselves artistically. I am the person who puts the voice into the guitar, and with my creative visual design choices, I am expressing myself artistically as well. My custom instruments not only meet the technical needs of the player; they are also personal creative works from my imagination.

It is my hope that my artistic influence will inspire guitarists to even greater creative heights.