Hello, and welcome to the online home of Rose Instruments. I spent many years building and repairing stringed instruments of all kinds. Originally I built primarily acoustic guitars, ukuleles, and mandolins, but about 20 years ago I wandered into the world of cigar box guitars, eventually spending more than a dozen years on the fine art festival circuit displaying and selling my cigar box creations: guitars, ukuleles, banjos, basses, mandolins, bouzoukis, charangos, thumb pianos, and other instruments. Along the way I was written up in magazines and newspapers, profiled on the PBS television program Wisconsin Life, and filled a wall with ribbons and awards. During this time I developed an abiding interest in guitar pickup design, eventually returning to building traditional instruments, but this time primarily electric guitars. These days, along with guitars I also build and mod amplifiers and effects pedals, recone vintage speakers, and I am also still fascinated with pickups, and continue to work on perfecting my older designs as well as developing altogether new pickup models. Please enjoy your visit!

Bruce Lee Rose