CURRENT PRODUCTION

NEW BATCH STARTING  February 2010

    Over the years I have found that my customers love to watch their guitar while it is being built.  However, in this age of internet sales it is not always (or even often) possible for them to come to my shop for a periodic "show and tell."  So, many years ago I decided to put up a series of pages which describe, both verbally and photographically, the progress of the guitars in my current production batch (I generally make 9 or 10 guitars in a batch.  Listed below are the guitars in my current batch.  Click on the link and go to the specific page for each guitar.  Since many of the steps are quite generic, there are also pages of generalized photos showing the progress of the current batch.  To see these pages, look HERE. 

Some of these guitars are being built for the Montreal Guitar Festival in July 2010.  They are so marked but are available for pre-sale.  

A small note on construction:  In recent years I have been moving towards use of traditional hot hide glue on structural aspects of my guitars.  I started with top braces and the bridge.  Next I glued the top to the sides with hide glue.  In the current batch I am also gluing back braces with hide glue and gluing the back on with hide glue.  Does this make a difference?  Hard to say for sure but I seem to notice an incremental improvement.  All those lovely Martins and Gibson's from the 20s, 30's and 40s were done this way.  Recently Martin started making its "Traditional" series guitars that use hide glue (along with a variety of other "vintage" techniques), and they sure are lovely sounding guitars.  We shall see.

568:  Jumbo 12 String; So. American Mahogany; Bearclaw Sitka; Cutaway;  SONIC SITKA Project. Available  MONTREAL

569:  Jumbo 12 String; Mahogany; Bearclaw Sitka.  Available   

570:  Jumbo 12 String; Indian Rosewood; bearclaw Sitka; Koa Binding. Available

571:  Dead;  Indian rosewood; Adirondack Spruce; Koa binding.  Waverly Tuners.  Available

572:  Concert 12 Fret;  Figured mahogany; Engelmann Spruce;  Inlay by Craig Lavin  SOLD

561:  Concert;  Koa B & S; Bearclaw Sitka Top; Koa / Abalone Rosette   SOLD

573:  Concert 14 fret; Indian Rosewood;  European Spruce;  Koa binding;  SOLD

574:  00 Indian Rosewood; European Spruce; koa binding; pyramid bridge. SOLD

564:  Dream Concert; Brazilian Rosewood B & S; European Spruce Top;Bevel;        Koa/abalone Rosette.  DREAM GUITARS

575:  Concert 12 Fret; Koa; Euro spruce; RW Binding; Cutaway; Slot Head.  Available  MONTREAL

576;  Jumbo; Cocobolo; Bearclaw Sitka; Cutaway; Koa bind; BEVEL.  Available MONTREAL

577;  0-12 fret; Mahogany; euro spruce; slot head; pyramid bridge.  Available

578: 0-12 fret; Indian Rosewood; Euro spruce; koa binding; slot head. Available. MONTREAL

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