Chuck Sanzone

After earning a philosophy degree from Boston College back in 1995, Chuck packed his car and headed out to the Roberto-Venn school of lutherie in an attempt to find a worthwhile career path. Building and repairing musical instruments seemed like an idyllic life for a creative soul who lived for music. Over 30 years later he’s still at it, restoring priceless musical instruments and building 2-3 pieces of functional art per year (most notably for legendary Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour). This long and rewarding career has included a restoration apprenticeship at the Music Emporium, many years at Tippin Guitars (building and restoration), rising to become rental workshop manager at Johnson String Instrument, training luthiers in China on 5 occasions in both guitar and violin repair as well as design & product development, studying with maestro Hans Nebel of the Wurlitzer workshop, becoming master luthier for Juzek Stringed Instruments/Metropolitan Music,  and rejuvenating Guild Guitars as VP of Manufacturing & master luthier where he streamlined production, created new models, and solved a myriad of design & manufacturing issues. Following this incredible chapter at Guild, Chuck and his wife Deirdre returned to New England to fulfill the dream of opening their own restoration workshop and gallery: The Commonwealth Luthier LLC in historic Holliston, Massachusetts.