Hello, and welcome to the online home of Rose Instruments. While I started off building primarily acoustic guitars, ukuleles, and mandolins, about 20 years ago I unintentionally backed into the world of cigar box guitars, eventually spending a dozen years on the upper midwest fine art festival circuit displaying and selling my cigar box guitars, ukuleles, banjos, basses and other instruments. During this time I developed an abiding interest in guitar pickup design, eventually returning to building traditional instruments, but this time primarily electric guitars. Basically, I had to have someplace to mount and show off my pickups. While I am no longer building at the pace I once did, I am 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!
