I am posting this available guitar a valued customer and friend, Gordon Kreplin, of Kill Devil Hills, NC.
More pictures are available on his website: https://gordonkreplin.com/guitar-for-sale-1995-pedro-valbuena/
Pedro Valbuena was one of the luthiers working out of the Ramirez shop so this guitar is a fine example of this Spanish method of luthiery.
Call Zeb at 931.389.1218 for more information
The first guitar was completed weekends while working at Gallagher Guitar Co 2006 and 2007. It was the culmination of the past six years of college, work and the superfluous, self reflective cocktail of yoga, meditation and youthfully ignorant enlightenment. The guitar was ok. I didn't know crap. In addition to fundraising, those are the things that passed through my mind as I balanced the completed guitar no. 2 on its side, freeing myself to grab some French polishing supplies.
When I was about 10 or 11 years old much of my free time was spent exploring the imaginitive opportunities provided by my family farm. One particular day I went I bit too far and broke some safety glass out of an old Volvo. At this point in my life it had beome a permanent fixture, albeit gradually melting, season after season, into the pasture's grass . Unfortunately, that car wasn't mine to destroy.
Here are some pictures of a recent project I just completed in which I stripped the lacquer off a 1980 Kohno and refinished the gutiar with a French Polish of Shellac. The original lacquer had yellowed quite a bit and apparently the wood underneath was quite beautiful.
I did an order of Cedar Creek Cases early in 2017 based on the recommendation from a customer that had been previously impressed with the work they did on a previous custom classical guitar case.
Listen to Alex Rockwell playing Sor's Fantasie 7e. Opus 30
