Before the dawn of electric instruments, guitarists had no way of competing for volume amongst horns, orchestral instruments, and banjos. In the late 1920’s a new company in Los Angeles came up with a solution: build a guitar with an aluminum speaker cone inside! And thus National Guitars was born. Over the next couple decades the National brand was bought and sold and eventually faded away. Then, in the late 1980’s, two brave men decided to revive the National brand. They bought the rights to the National patents and designs and started building high quality replicas out of their shop in San Luis Obispo, California and National ResoPhonic Guitars was born! Before long they would expand their line with new designs and improvements to the old ones, all the while focusing on quality, not quantity. They currently produce a wide variety of metal and wood body acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles with all sorts of custom appointments and options.