Articles
About Guitar Design
Once I received an email from a friend of his new idea for a top bracing pattern with the question, “Do you think that this design will make a good sounding guitar?” It was actually a creative idea and it certainly didn't fail to peak my curiosity, but it was the question itself that stuck with me and deserves an honest an
Defining the Handmade Guitar
The word “handmade” is one the oldest, feel-good labels we can attribute to a product and it is the prerequisite of each customer on the market for a concert quality classical guitar. But what does this word mean today and what qualities should its products possess?
A Visit from an Antonio de Torres Guitar
On June 20, one of my customers brought by an original Torres made in 1883. The guitar sounded great though it obviously had lots of restoration work. I checked the Romanillos entry of this particular guitar and most everything matches his description except the bit about the four piece top.
Update from Guitarist Tom Torrisi
Tom Torrisi, owner of guitar no. 15, recently commissioned and performed a peice for electronics and guitar from Authur Keegan-Bole, a composer of new music based in Bristol, UK. Here is the recording available on YouTube.
Tom is currently working towards a D.M.A at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.
Nocturne by Author Keegan-Bole
Visit from Guitar No. 5
One week ago Brent Webster came by the shop with guitar no. 5 for some routine touch ups to the guitar's polish. One of the best decisions I've made since being in the business of building people guitars is to offer free French polishing on the first 30 guitars.
Quilted Maple Classical Guitar Project
See the completed instrument here.
Your Judgemometer
You can collect all the data possible, use every objective resource at your disposal and create every millimeter of your instrument with machinist precision, but the end product will always be a result of your judgement.
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