# Jim Triggs

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**Jim Triggs** is an American [luthier](/source/Luthier), described as the "P.T. Barnum of guitar makers."[1] He grew up in [Kansas](/source/Kansas), where he taught himself how to build [mandolins](/source/Mandolin) and violins. He began building guitars in the early 1980s, influenced by such luthiers as [John D'Angelico](/source/John_D'Angelico), [Elmer Stromberg](/source/Stromberg_Guitars), and [Lloyd Loar](/source/Lloyd_Loar), and went to work for [Gibson Guitar Corporation](/source/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation) in 1986[1] as one of the master luthiers in Gibson's custom shop.[2][3] He is known mainly for [archtop guitars](/source/Archtop_guitar) and mandolins.[1]

## References

1. Vose, Ken & Jean-Bart, Leslie (1998). [*Blue Guitar*](https://archive.org/details/blueguitar0000vose). Chronicle. p. [77](https://archive.org/details/blueguitar0000vose/page/77). ISBN 978-0-8118-1912-1.

1. Laskin, Grit (2003). [*A guitarmaker's canvas: the inlay art of Grit Laskin*](https://books.google.com/books?id=h0FdrMqslXIC&pg=PA26). Hal Leonard. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-87930-756-1.

1. Cusic, Don (2003). [*It's the cowboy way!: the amazing true adventures of Riders in the Sky*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YbtWmpLVuuQC&pg=PA235). UP of Kentucky. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-8131-2284-7.

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.triggsguitars.com/)

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