Contemporary Guitar Making and Hands-On Guitar Making - offering expert lecture/demonstration and hands-on lutherie training for students at all levels. Husband and wife Charles Fox and Denise Richards are business and creative partners both ASL and Charles Fox Guitars.  

Pioneer American luthier Charles Fox has been active in the development of modern lutherie for over 40 years. Charles is often referred to as the dean of educators in the field of guitar making, having introduced hundreds of people to this craft and counting many of today’s successful luthiers among his former students.  Since 1968, Charles has been building guitars both as an independent luthier and as head of guitar production workshops.  In 1973 he founded the first school for guitar makers in North America, the School of the Guitar Research & Design Center in South Strafford, VT.  In 1993 Charles established the American School of Lutherie in Healdsburg, CA, where he also co-founded the Healdsburg Guitar Festival.