FSC Instruments was founded in 2016 by renowned New York City luthier Farhad Soheili, after having dedicated nearly two decades to repairing, restoring, and customizing guitars throughout Southern California, and NYC. After running the guitar repair shop at Ludlow Guitars in Manhattan, New York City’s Lower East Side (until their closing), FSC Instruments was born.
We are a small team creating a limited yearly run of premium quality, high-end guitars and instruments in Brooklyn, NYC. Each FSC instrument is handcrafted from carefully selected, USA sourced specially treated Tempered woods and other premium materials in our NYC shop. Our bodies, necks, fretboards, pickguards, and hand-wound vintage-style pickups are made from the finest raw materials available.
We use Tempered Tonewoods for a majority of our bodies due to their incredible resonance, loud acoustic properties, balanced tone, and remarkable light weight. Although we build electric guitars we approach selecting tonewood from an acoustic standpoint.
Our instruments are vintage-inspired in terms of quality, craftsmanship, and tone with added modern features like compound radius fretboard options for better playability, extra heel comfort contours, spoke-wheel adjustable truss rods, and a roadworthy design. These are simply the instruments we have always wanted to play.
“The craftsmanship, tone, feel, aesthetics, design, and reliability of my guitars are the result of over twenty years of experience working with all levels of musicians from hobbyists to seasoned touring pros in various shops. Learning what they all loved or wanted to modify about their cherished instruments helped guide my own custom designs.
I’ve been fortunate enough to work as a luthier in well-respected shops while I was honing my craft for decades before I went on to run one of the busiest repair shops in NYC which gave me up-close access to some amazing and historic instruments.
My work is heavily influenced by some of the incredible vintage pieces that have passed through my shop and hands over the years. Many of my builds are carefully reverse engineered directly from what I consider the finest built vintage guitars. This journey ultimately led to me custom building one-off instruments for private clients, and now my small team and I are proud to offer FSC Instruments to the world. I hope you will consider FSC for your next instrument.”
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Farhad Soheili
FSC Instruments
Custom shop founder & luthier
