Smith and Young Brand is the new spin-off subsidiary of the National Resophonic Guitar Company of San Luis Obispo, CA. Craving to build some guitars with the traditional “spider bridge and internal truss support” but perhaps afraid of diluting the notional held by National devotionals, that they are made with biscuit bridges, the co-owners of the National Company, whose names just happen to be Mr. Young and Mr. Smith, who probably got into the age-old, inevitable, heated discussion of “which name should appear first” on the masthead, fought it out. You can see who won. These are remarkable sounding, powerful, stentorian loud instruments.