At Blue Note Woodworks we have been building, repairing & restoring musical instruments professionally, since 1972. Owner (Rob Cusumano) is originally from S. California, where he had mentored under, and worked for some of the world’s largest & most famous guitar manufactures and luthiers in the world.

In 1972, Rob began his professional career at Original Musical Instruments (OMI) “Dobro” (resonator guitars), with the Dopyera brothers. He mostly worked in the wood shop making necks. While there, he worked with John Quarterman (Quarterman Res-O-Cones) and Don Young (National Reso-Phonic Guitars).

From there Rob worked with world famous Master Luthier, Ren Ferguson (Ferguson Guitars & Banjos), where he helped build John McLaughlin's famous "Double Rainbow" guitar, along with many other handmade pre-war Dreadnaught guitars & Mastertone banjo reproductions.

After that, Rob was then employed by CBS Musical Instruments (Fender®, Rodgers & Rhodes), in the Neck Fabrication Dept. until he was promoted to the Quality Control Dept.

From there, when Leo Fender went back into business and started up CLF Research, (Music Man Guitars, pre-Ernie Ball) and later becoming (G & L Guitars), Rob worked in the Wood Shop, Assembly Dept. and Repair Dept. While working at “Music Man”, Rob partnered with John Quarterman (Quarterman Res-O-Cones) and opened “J & R Guitar Repair” in Fullerton, CA.

Later when Rob moved to S. Oregon, he started his own musical instrument repair & custom build shop. They are now located in the beautiful hills of Southern Oregon, between Medford & Grants Pass (15 minutes from the final resting place of National & Dobro inventor John Dopyera, & where his daughter Ann still resides).

With over 40 years of experience in manufacturing, repairing & restoring thousands of instruments, Blue Note Woodworks still strives to help their customers in getting the best possible sound & performance out of their instruments, either new or used.