Abraham Wechter is an American luthier who has been making custom guitars since the 1970s.
[1] He was a student of luthier Richard Schneider,[2] and for ten years he worked for the guitar company Gibson.
[citation needed] Some of his guitars have drone strings[4] and scalloped fingerboards.
[5] The Shakti guitar is a customized Gibson J-200[6] with drone strings transversely across the soundhole.
Wechter has built guitars for John Denver, Al Di Meola, Jonas Hellborg, Steve Howe, Earl Klugh,[9] Johnny Hiland, and Roman Miroshnichenko.