gibson l5 ces 1991
JIM
TRIGGS
Jim Triggs has been building instruments for over 40 years. He is widely
considered a world authority on Lloyd Loar mandolins and had already built
between 130-150 instruments when Gibson sought his talents in 1986. Over the
following six years, he was largely responsible for the transformation of the
Bozeman Acoustic facility, as well as the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville with
emphasis on . He also built one-of-a-kind “art” instruments
and during his tenure personally signed the labels for over 700 others, the
majority of which were archtop guitars.
Jim has built well over 1000 hand-made instruments including many archtop
and flat top guitars for some of the country’s best-known artists such as Alan
Jackson, Steve Miller, Marty Stuart, Mundell Lowe, Pat Martino and many others.
One of his archtops was featured in the Smithsonian Institute Chinery Blue
Guitar Collection.