Dale Cameron is a Canadian luthier and musician known for being the only C.F. Martin & Company factory-trained master craftsman in Canada. Career In 1975, Cameron was hired on to apprentice at the Martin factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, training under master craftsmen such as Donald Dech, himself an apprentice to foreman John Deichmann who helped design the Dreadnought guitar. Cameron was one of the firm's few employees to achieve master craftsman status and returned to Toronto in 1976 to run Martin's Canadian warranty repair shop. Later, in 1979, he opened Cameron Guitars in his hometown of Edmonton, where he repaired and sold guitars, including doing Martin warranty work, and providing his services as a guitar mechanic to professional musicians performing in the area. Redd Volkaert, Martin Simpson came to Cameron for repairs while touring in Canada. Cameron was a contributing editor at Tempo, a music trade magazine, and also wrote columns for Canadian Musician and the Edmonton Journal, including a syndicated special report on the 50th anniversary of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation in 1996. See also List of luthiers References External links Personal website Martin Guitars Canadian luthiers Canadian musical instrument makers Guitar makers Living people