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Here is a new guitar for a good local customer. Old Brazilian. Euro spruce. Ganz/Romanillos design. Lined with cypress. I am honored and thankful for the trust and sponsorship of my work by my customers.
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For your consideration:Wood for rosette
Here’s some wood I am considering for use in the rosette of an upcoming guitar.
Carina Nebula – New Guitar
This is a guitar I built for Valerie in Vancouver. Dark cedar, dark East Indian rosewood. She studies with Stanton Jack in Vancouver. This guitar: It’s great in so many ways. Some new pictures of the Carina Nebula by the … Continue reading
Preview of future attraction. Spruce and Amboyna burl.
Here’s a top, a very fine Euro spruce, joined and with rosette inlaid. Amboyna burl background….
New maple Romanillos style.
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New guitar. Maple Romanillos style. Very similar to one I built 10 years ago or so. Finishing now.
New Guitar – “Pluto”
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Another new guitar. This one is Pluto. In case you are wondering, try googling “New Horizons, Gravitational Waves, Pluto”, or just click here. Euro Spruce, Honduran Rosewood. Hauser style.
Good Things Come In Trees (and Threes) – Tops
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The Triplets will have tops from the same billet of cedar. They are nearly identical. (No two pieces of wood from a tree are identical; nearly is as close as you can get.) So I joined the three tops and … Continue reading
Santa’s guitar progress
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For the last 3 weeks, I have been trying to get my shop in order. I have two pretty important machines that are down. My thickness drum sander and a bandsaw are down. I won’t recount exactly what is wrong, … Continue reading
Almost done….
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A new ‘Ganzanillos’ style guitar. Built by Ganz, an homage to the Romanillos design (I studied with Jose in 2004). 650 mm scalelength Italian Spruce top East Indian Rosewood Maple binding Amboyna burl rosette As it happens, I have no … Continue reading