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Jean-Hervé Paul.

A friend gave me the difficult news that Jean-Herve was killed in his home in Haiti in March of this year. He was 54 years young. I won’t go into the grisly details, preferring to recall a little about Jean-Hervé. … Continue reading

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Another rendition of Reflection

A few days ago, I posted about Ana Pietrzak playing Reflection on my guitar… Here’s another rendition of Ana playing Reflection. She stopped into GSI in Santa Monica on a recent trip (pre-stay-at-home) to record this video.

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Anna Pietrzak – Reflection

A few days ago I introduced Anna and her husband Carl Petersson. Today I want to have a closer look at Anna. First, check out her website: http://annapietrzak.com/en/anna-pietrzak . She has lots of information there, lots of biographical details, recordings, … Continue reading

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Anna Pietrzak and Carl Petersson

I met this amazing guitarist, Anna Pietrzak, at a picnic in Vancouver BC in 2018, or was it 2017… has it been that long ago? She’s from Poland, and her husband Carl Petersson is from Sweden. I immediately took a … Continue reading

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Mr. Dependable. Ganz Hauser model.

One of the most used, most reproduced, most beloved and dependable designs for classical guitars: Hauser 1937. If this one looks familiar, maybe it’s because it has appeared here on the blog before. That was about 10 years ago, when … Continue reading

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Breaking news: Guitar impacted by asteroid Ceres

Sort of… Here is a cutaway guitar. 640mm scale length. Channel top. Double sides. Ultra cutaway. Clear golpeadores. Same model as one I made for Pedro Cortes who is currently touring with that guitar. Contact me for more information

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Torres FE 05 model

A couple years ago I made a Torres FE 05 out of Movingue which was very successful. The original, labeled in 1857, Sevilla was built with Rio Rosewood. So here’s another FE 05 incarnation, with some beautiful rosewood. Scale length … Continue reading

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Some pictures of a guitar for JP

Here’s a guitar finished earlier this year. I suppose you might say it’s pretty. A few bells and whistles. It is a Romanillos plantilla, but with double sides and back. Rosewood and Euro-Spruce. Powerful and soulful voice. 650 scale length.

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Joachim Schneider Guitar spa treatment

A customer brought his guitar in to refresh the finish. So I took some pictures.

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More of Brandon’s guitar

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