Crafter

Crafter Guitars
Crafter Guitars was founded by HyunKwon Park in Seoul, South Korea in 1972.

In the beginning they used the name Sungeum, (a name still used in Korea) and made Classical Guitars.

In 1986 they launched internationally under the brand name Crafter with a much larger catalogue, still mainly Guitars, but they soon added Mandolins, and in 2016 a range of all laminate, solid top or all solid Concert scale Ukuleles.

Prior to the official launch of Ukuleles into their catalogue they did for a while in the early 2000's, make a 4 string version of their Mandolin using the model number Q50. This was a bit odd as the Mandolins were M series and the Q series appears, from the 2001 Crafter Website, to have been for a type of Bass Guitar, (even then most of the Bass Guitars were in the BA series), so quite what this particular model was suppose to be and how it was suppose to be tuned is unclear? I have asked but received no reply?