Vincent Van Trigt, Master Builder at the Fender Custom Shop, brings years of guitar building experience to Fender Musical Instruments. As a Master Builder, Van Trigt works to make players’ dream guitars a reality. Van Trigt graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Utrecht, Netherlands and then went to school
for restaurant management in Haarlem, Netherlands. Van Trigt believes that his experience in the
restaurant and hotel business has
helped him immensely with his business communication skills today. When it comes to guitar building,
Van Trigt learned everything at Fender, but also amassed deep musical knowledge during his 30 years
as a musician, which has informed how he builds basses and guitars today.
Van Trigt started his Fender career in 2004 at the company’s Corona facility, and took a position as a
tuner/tester on the production line shortly after. In 2010 he moved to the Fender Custom Shop, where
he worked for two years before moving to the Gretsch Custom Shop to wor