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Medium-sized fingerpicking guitar This guitar was based on a Gibson L-1 design, but designed slightly wider than the traditional example. This gave the instrument a larger soundbox, but most importantly a more medium-sized feel than the small parlor looks of its traditional ancester. The cutaway and the black finish, together with the green abalone inlay around the body, fingerboard and peghead make this a flashy-looking instrument. The internal bracing and overall construction
focused on a versatile guitar, suitable for both fingerpicking and
flatpicking styles. It was designed to be strung up with 012 gauge
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Jumbo guitar, curly koa Seeing some high grade curly koa makes you dream of its native Hawaii, sunshine and ukeleles, aloha-flowers around your neck , white beaches, waving palmtrees and the never-ending rolling sea. This guitar has a pronounced jumbo style body made
of the legendary curly koawood, only to be found in the isles of Hawaii.
My client knew exactly what he wanted and was very specific when giving me
his view on the design. The slightly arched soundboard and the
wellbalanced and voiced tonebars give this guitar a powerful dynamic range
with a lot of harmonic overtones, excellent for flatpicking style. The
balanced construction and the acoustic specifications of the koa wood make
this guitar a good stage performer with a high output, less prone to
feetback than a rosewood body. The stars inlaid on the ebony fingerboard (together with the name of his son and the day of his birth) give this guitar a flashy look. One day the father will hand this guitar over to his grown-up son, a wonderful present and a soothing thought. Take a closer look |
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Jumbo sized guitar for all styles and purposes A traditional jumbo-style guitar, built for both fingerpicking and flatpicking, to accompany a gifted singer of traditional songs of his far-away homeland, Ireland. No inlays appear on the fingerboard with only a star and moon design on the peghead, reassembling the same traditional design he had on his old S.S.Stewart tenor banjo I once restored. This sensitive instrument was made to be strung up with 012 gauge. It featured a slightly curved ebony fingerboard, a compensated addle and dark machineheads to match the bold looks of the entire instrument. Take a closer look |
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decorated medium-sized guitar The acoustic possibilities of this design are overwhelming: when braced correctly with a pattern, in accordance with the woodgrain, properly voiced tonebars and with a correct arch in the top, this guitar is a very responsive instrument, singing with a warm deep steelstring voice that can have a raw bluesy feel to it. All this is possible when choice of wood, arching, bracing and voicing is done with the final sound in mind. The inlaywork on the ebony fretboard is an old-style vintage tree of life in mother of pearl. The entire body is surrounded by white mother of pearl inlays as are the fingerboard and the peghead. We chose white mother of pearl because it comes across a little more delicate than the, more commonly used, green abalone. In total more than 700 pieces of pearl were used to give this guitar its elegant looks. Take a closer look |
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Dreadnought steelstring guitar This guitar was designed using the traditional D-shape of a flatpicking guitar. A light and well-balanced bracing pattern made this guitar suitable for both fingerpicking and flatpicking styles. Gold-plated tuners were mounted on the peghead, which was inlaid with a old-style red abalone design. Small ivoroid binding was inlaid around the peghead and fingerboard. This very sensitive instrument with its warm and deep voice performs very well in acoustic settings and in recording sessions. On stage it is feedback sensitive in acoustic/electric stage situations because of the high responsive approach of the entire concept and the high-end harmonic overtones, associated with the rosewood soundwood). In many recording sessions, however, this guitar's rich and explosive bell-like tone are appreciated by the musicians as well as the recording engineers. Take a closer look |
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Medium-sized steelstring guitar This guitar was made as a very special birthday present my customer wanted to give his wife. Basically its design was a traditional inspired 000-shape, with a very thin neck, slightly modified and very light X-bracing and an overall light-weight construction. Closed grain spruce was choosen for the top, slightly reddish Indian rosewood for back and sides and Honduras mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard, rosewood bridge and Waverly tuners. The instruments gets its quiet charm from the mahogany binding, the rosette (made out of a stunning piece of ash), the diamond-shaped dotted inlays on the fretboard and the female figurine (a picture of Lilithfare, the very first human female to ever walk the earth) on the headstock. The wonderful shape, the bracing pattern, the tone-woods that were used, it made this instrument into a very player friendly fingerpicking guitar with a sweet and airy tone. Both the feel of the neck, the inlay design and especially the light touch and singing voice of the guitar made this a very special and personal instrument. In fact, this traditional guitar design makes a fantastic instrument when built with a correct arch and an internal bracing pattern that suits the grain structure of the spruce top. Subtle changes of all these elements, together with a small or long scale and different body depth can make this guitar model fit in almost all musical wishes and dreams. Take a closer look
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| Gypsy swing style guitars |
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Gypsy swing style jazz guitar This guitar was made for a customer who owns an
original Selmer but who wanted me to make an inspired copy that would
serve him as a valuable alternative for his almost priceless original.
Inside the guitar some adjustments were made to
structurally strenghten the top without sacrificing the percussive attack.
Soundwise, the instrument gained warmth and
sustain.The spruce top is also slightly curved to create extra dynamic
range and at the same time it gives the guitar a very beautiful curvacious
profile. The neck was shaped according to the wishes of the
customer.
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Gypsy swing style jazz guitar The top of this guitar was carved from a two-piece spruce block the same way it is done on a modern-style jazz guitar. The result was a powerful sounding jazzy instrument. The sound of this particular guitar combined the percussive attack you find in traditional Gypsy swing guitars with a warm tone and projection and some bell-bronze soundcolor in the high-ends. A great instrument to swing and sing with in a modern musical setting.
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