Sugi Guitars is a Japanese manufacturer of high quality hand-crafted guitars

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 and basses

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 used by professional musicians around the world.
Sugi use of very fine and expensive tonewood

Tonewood

Tonewood generally refers to any wood which may be used in the construction of a musical instrument. Many acoustic properties are often assigned to specific wood species; however the description of these properties is itself a large subject and beyond the scope of this article...

 such as swamp ash, quilted, flame and spalted maple

Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or together with the Hippocastanaceae included in the family Sapindaceae. Modern classifications, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, favour inclusion in...

, mahogany

Mahogany

The name mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored hardwood. It is a native American word originally used for the wood of the species Swietenia mahagoni, known as West Indian or Cuban mahogany....

, ebony

Ebony

Ebony is a dense black wood, most commonly yielded by several species in the genus Diospyros, but ebony may also refer to other heavy, black woods from unrelated species. Ebony is dense enough to sink in water. Its fine texture, and very smooth finish when polished, make it valuable as an...

 and cocobolo

Cocobolo

Cocobolo is a tropical hardwood of the tree Dalbergia retusa from Central America.Only the heartwood is used: this is typically orange or reddish-brown in color, often with a figuring of darker irregular traces weaving through the wood. The sapwood is a creamy yellow, with a sharp boundary with...

 along with careful craftmanship resulted in high quality sound of their instruments.

Pro artists who use Sugi guitars

(In alphabetical order)

• Chiharu Mikuzuki
• Darlene Moreno
• Fumio Yanagisawa
• John Page
  John Page
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• Ju-ken
  Ju-ken
  Ju-ken is a Japanese session bassist. He is a member of GacktJob, The Wanderers and Anna Tsuchiya. He is one of the most in-demand bassists in Japan.- Career :...
  
  
• Kenji Yamamoto
  Kenji Yamamoto
  is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo. He was born on April 25, 1964. He is notable for composing music in many titles of the Metroid series, mainly Super Metroid and the Prime trilogy. Yamamoto also plays a role as a music director at Nintendo, overseeing the audio for several...
  
  
• Kiyoshi Hayami
• Louisa Knight
• Michael Thompson
  Michael Thompson
  Michael Thompson may refer to:*Mike Thompson , United States Representative from California's 1st congressional district*Michael Thompson *Michael Thompson , American guitarist...
  
  
• Mike Porcaro
  Mike Porcaro
  Mike Porcaro is best noted as the bass player in the Grammy Award winning band, Toto.He is the middle brother of Toto members Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro...
  
  
• Nozomi Furukawa
• Owada Haruo
• Rocket Richotte
• Scott Zimmerman
• Shiro Tanigawa
• Steve Bailey
  Steve Bailey
  Steve Bailey is an American bassist who is famous for his pioneering work with the six string fretless bass. He was voted runner up for "Bass Player Of The Year" in 1994 and 1996....
  
  
• Syunsuke Tsunoda
• Toshiki Horisawa
• Yasuo Kijima
• Yuji Yamamoto