William Allen Asher (born 24 July 1964) is a Californian-born luthier (guitar maker)[1] in the Los Angeles area. He has been in the guitar repair and restoration business for over 30 years and has been building high-end, custom guitars for 15 years.[2] He is best known for helping revive the lap steel guitar instrument[3] into popular music by creating a modern-day lap steel guitar that is now used in a variety of musical genres.[4][5]