Irving Sloane, Classic Guitar Construction, 1966
The young guitar student that I mentioned in my last post came to my shop yesterday to take delivery on the Douglas fir/mahogany guitar. It is a close copy of a guitar made in 1968 by the great Spanish makers, Manuel Hernandez and Victoriano Aguado.
The top is from a salvaged Douglas fir board...
...and the back and sides are Honduran mahogany.
The young man played several Catalan songs arranged by Miguel Llobet, I thought I was listening to an old recording of Andres Segovia! This guitar has an old Spanish-like quality to it that gave me goose bumps, it sounds so wonderful! I can't wait to hear this guitar in six months!
I hope to get a chance to record the young man and his guitar this winter so I can post the videos on this blog.
He and his father gave me a deposit so I can start working on another guitar for him.
He really likes the Douglas fir for its sound, now I need to convince him to let me use sustainable woods that grow here in North America for the rest of the guitar...
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