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I’ve been collecting pieces for this guitar for months~ It’s starting to come together…. looking fine. Lined sides (Alaskan Yellow Cedar). Making “Deluxe” stuff for lines, and rosette.
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A trip to Vancouver and Aranjuez
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A couple of years ago, I had a commission from young player and his family. The player’s Saul Domingos-Morales. His teacher is Hanh Nguyen. The guitar seems to have helped Saul get to the next level. (Well at least it … Continue reading
Thing two… the channel top
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Here is the second of the triplets GanzChan… The channel top. I’ve done a couple of these in the past, but not for about 8 or 9 years. I generally prefer solid tops, but we’ll see how this goes…
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
Good Things Come in Threes – Necks
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I’m building three guitars. They are intended to be as similar as they can be… except for the top composition. The tops will cedar, cut from the same billet. The backs and sides will be East Indian Rosewood. The doubled … Continue reading
Turn Around – Lefty to Righty
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Sometimes I get requests to build left-handed guitars. Some players learn to play lefty. It just seems ‘right’ to them. Hey, Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix… So anyway, there are left-handed guitars on the market to satisfy the relatively small … Continue reading
New music from de Falla…
Nacio sent me a couple of recordings. You can find them on the music page…http://www.ganzguitars.com/music/ but here are direct links Sparrows Watch Sun Dog Playful Loons Brujo – 8 string Thanks Nacio! You can visit his facebook page…
Experimental 8 – “Spare Partita”
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In 2002 I built this guitar , Spare Partita For an individual luthier, labor is the most expensive part of any instrument. That is why quality materials are so important. However, when creating a prototype, downgrading the materials just a … Continue reading
Neck shape standards and templates
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There are a infinite possibilities for shaping a guitar neck. The luthier needs to work within constraints, making decisions about what is desirable and how to carve the neck to execute those decisions. For example, I am working on a … Continue reading