People We Meet: Steve Pierson, Independent Artistic Guitar Maker At Crude Luthier

San Francisco CA

09 October, 2021

3:40 PM

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By Anlan Cheney, Mission Local October 9, 2021 With deliberate, booming intonation, Steve Pierson spoke to friends and passersby about the merits of his "artistic guitars" at an art walk outside the Mission SMAart studio on 24th Street. Under the name Crude Luthier, he crafts electric guitars from reclaimed materials with the help of digital manufacturing tools like 3D printing and laser cutting. Luthier, Pierson explained, is the word for people who make and repair stringed instruments, like the oud and lute of old from which the term luthier is derived. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.