Shop Locations

Seattle
520 Westlake Ave N.
Seattle, WA. 98109
(206)624-7668
renwal@aol.com
Shop Hours:
Monday-Friday: 11 - 6pm
Saturday: 11 - 3pm

Seattle Shop

Randy Parsons (1976) repairs, modifies and builds guitars. The business has four shop locations (Seattle-Kirkland-Tacoma-Tukwila). It is the Pacific Northwest’s premier custom shop.

Dagna Barrera

Dagna Barrera began working on guitars in Sweden. She came to America to attend the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery (the nations top school for guitar making), which she graduated from in 2000. She held an apprenticeship under Michael Dolan of California, fine tuning her skills as a custom guitar maker and repair technician. She has also studied and developed a special talent in the area of Inlay art. Dagna is a very gifted luthier with too many skills to list. Dagna has been with the Parsons Guitar Shop since 2002.

Yoshimi

Yoshimi is currently serving a 2 years apprentiship sentence. Yoshimi is a gifted technician and shows great promise as a luthier. Yoshimi's sentence has been extended two years for bad behavior.

Persia

Persia is the second apprentice. Persia is taking a trip back through time, learning guitar making techniques lost during the industrial revolution.

Natalia

Natalia Legendary shop manager. Natalia began working in the shop at age 16, now in her mid 20's she has taken a leave of absence to explore life. Natalia is currently living in San Francisco. The heart and soul of the company suffers while she is away.

Brittany Makin

Held the position of personal assistant to Randy Parsons from 2006-2008. A truly evolving job that she handled with quick thinking and street smarts.

Spokane - Seth Ertl

Seth Ertl graduated from the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, the nation's top school for guitar making. Seth was quickly hired by Rain Song Guitars, located in Hawaii! Before Seth could pack his bags, Rain Song Guitars moved their operation to Redmond, Washington (ouch!). After 2 years with Rain Song Guitars, Seth joined the Parsons Guitar Shop in 2005.

Tacoma - Ron Puccetti

Ron Puccetti Ron is developing a huge reputation in Tacoma as being “the man”. After successfully running a repair shop on the east coast for 10 years. Ron joins Parsons with a vast amount of experience.

Kirkland - Dagna Barrera

Dagna If you play your music loud and heavy, Dagna is your tech. She was the in studio technician for Mastodon during the recording of their Grammy nominated LP (2007).