Randy Wood Guitars

A self-proclaimed “old-fashioned” craftsman, Randy Wood has built the music-making machines of Elvis Presley, Emmy Lou Harris, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, and others. The longtime luthier is still carving wood for custom-made guitars, basses, and mandolins in his studio/music hall in Bloomingdale, Georgia.

Wood has been in the business since the late 1960s, when he first made a mandolin and in short order founded one of the world’s best-known guitar shops in Nashville. It was a place where stars like Presley and Cash would stop by before their shows. He told Garden and Gun that it was during that period when he personally laid the mother of pearl into the King’s guitar fingerboard, and the acorns and oak leaf engravings on Johnny Cash’s Martin D-28S.

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