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Frank combines his engineering background with his artistic creative side to design each of the guitars for Texas Star Guitar.

One day while John Mosconi was repairing a couple of Frank's guitars.  Frank asked John what is his one of his dreams.  John dreamingly said to make custom - high end guitars but don't know how to go about it.  Well after several discussions, Frank and John decided to partner and Texas Star Guitar was formed.

Frank does the sourcing and finding of exotic woods such as Sinker Redwood, Macassar Ebony, Mahogany and talked with John on how to put these woods together and turned over to John for his great luthier skills to complete the building and beautiful refinishing.  

John Mosconi (a.k.a String King) began his career as a luthier in 1989.  He learned lot about guitar repair and refinishing/restoration through trial and error, reading many books and a lot of advice from other experienced fellow luthiers.

He and a former partner were buying used pieces for resale that were victims of poor amateur refinishing and restoring and that's where he gained a reputation as a refinisher.

In the mid 90's as he gained more experience with repairs he then began to work at building acoustic guitars at first from Martin kits.  Then as time went on, made custom arch tops and flat tops from scratch on a per order basis.

He is well known in the Akron and Cleveland, Ohio area for his skill's in customizing, custom conversions and of course high quality finishes.

John is a factory authorized repairman for Guild, Gibson/Epiphone, Taylor and Ovation guitars.  Over the years he as restored, customized and refinished hundreds of guitars.