“When I saw The Rolling Stones, they were playing my bass onstage,” Roger Fritz says, while puttering around in his shop. “That’s a pretty good feeling.” The shop, basically an…
Article in Portico Eastern Shore – Fall 2017 Issue Roger guesses he’s made in the neighborhood of 500 guitars and repaired thousands. Through it all, he’s learned that building a…
Guitar Hero Fairhope’s image as a haven for major-talent artisans went up a notch recently, when master luthier Roger Fritz left Mendocino, Calif., to set up shop near Fish River.…
Born To Build Guitars When Roger Fritz recently relocated to Alabama — to Fairhope, on Mobile Bay — the state reclaimed the business of a master luthier — a guitar…
Fritz Brothers Guitars is an Alabama Maker making strings sing Roger Fritz used a sheet of plywood and a three-color crayon to make his first guitar. “My father wanted me…
Luthier Roger Fritz has relocated his business from northern California to the Eastern Shore area of Mobile Bay, in south Alabama. Fritz came to prominence as a guitar builder in…