Creston Electric Instruments is a producer of vintage-style custom solid body and chambered electric guitars and basses. Known to players as "Crestons", these guitars are sometimes made using unconventional woods for bodies such as sugar pine and hickory. Lifelong musician and master carpenter, founder Creston Lea combined two passions to create Creston Electric Instruments in 2004 after several years of repairing and producing guitars in Burlington, Vermont. Creston Guitars are played by several notable musicians in the alt-country, country, blues and rock genre. Crestons have been made from centuries-old barn beams, spare instrument parts from customers, and common lumber yard 2x12 planks. While customers can specify unorthodox materials, many choose traditional hardwoods for solid body guitars such as ash, poplar, mahogany and basswood.
Luke Doucet - Self, Whitehorse, Sarah McLachlan
Brian Henneman – The Bottle Rockets, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo
Mark Spencer – Jay Farrar, Kelly Willis, Laura Cantrell, Blood Oranges, Lisa Loeb, Gob Iron
Victor Krummenacher - Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom, Self
Chuck Prophet – Self, Green on Red, Kelly Willis
Tom Heyman – Self, Go To Blazes, The Court & Spark
Henry Kaiser
Keith Voegele – The Bottle Rockets
Tony Gilkyson – Self, X, Lone Justice, Chuck E. Weiss, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper
Anders Parker – Self, Varnaline, Space Needle (band), New Multitudes, Gob Iron, Mascott
Eric Heywood – Son Volt, Minnie Driver, Ray LaMontagne, The Pretenders, Joe Henry, Richard Buckner, Mandy Moore
Tim Bluhm – The Mother Hips
Noah Crowther - Waylon Speed
MC Taylor – The Court & Spark, Hiss Golden Messenger
Gabrielle Douglas – The Cush
Zack Hickman – Josh Ritter
Gaby Hoffmann – (actress) Everyone Says I Love You, Now and Then, You Can Count on Me, 200 Cigarettes, Uncle Buck, Field of Dreams
Tao Rodríguez-Seeger – The Mammals
Ian MacKaye – The Evens, Fugazi, Minor Threat
Jimmy Ryan – Self, Blood Oranges, Laura Cantrell, Morphine, Catie Curtis, Warren Zevon
Jaleel Bunton – TV on the Radio
Jeph Jacques - (cartoonist) Deathmøle
James Walbourne – The Pretenders, The Pogues, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pernice Brothers, Linda Thompson
Jay Farrar - Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Gob Iron, New Multitudes
Marco Pirroni - Adam Ant, Adam and the Ants, Sinéad O'Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees
Chad Urmston - State Radio, Dispatch (band)
Adam Ant - Adam Ant, Adam and the Ants
Will Johnson - Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel, Monsters of Folk, New Multitudes
David Bryant - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Kris Delmhorst - self
Mike Bones - self
Mark Erelli - Kris Delmhorst, Lori McKenna, Catie Curtis
John Murry - self
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