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Classical Guitar Magazine
Gary is the featured luthier in “Luthier Profile” in the June 2007 issue.
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Model 1 Steel String
This is Gary's new Model 1 steel string guitar. Click on the image for more details. |
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Classical Guitars
Click on the image for more information on my classical
guitars. |
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Sitka Spruce and English Walnut Baritone Guitar
Click on the image for full details of this custom built baritone guitar. |
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Custom Nylon
This particular guitar answers the question, “Why should I
choose a custom made guitar?” Internally this guitar is constructed as a
traditional classical using a system of fan struts.
Externally, the design picks up styling cues from early 20th
century American instruments. The narrower than usual
fingerboard and its slight camber are sympathetic to a player
used to a steel string guitar. The guitar is also equipped with
an Ashworth micro-strip transducer.
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Short Scale Bass This short scale bass has been constructed with a straight-thru’ highly figured flamed maple neck and ash body The neck is laminated with walnut and green veneer and reinforced with an adjustable truss rod and two carbon fibre strips. The instrument has a natural looking oil finish which also produces a “fast” neck. |
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Sitka Spruce and Quilted Maple Twin Point Mandolin
This twin point style is currently my preferred mandolin shape. The
shape was inspired by a 1925 Lyon & Healy mandolin and its
twin point allows easy access to the higher frets. Click on
the image for more details.
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 |  | Custom Built “A” style Flat-top Mandolins Click on the image and compare two handmade “A” style mandolins that were built as commissions. One is designed to echo the vintage American look with herringbone purflings and abalone inlays, the other has a silver crusader cross inlaid into its head. Both are constructed with Indian Rosewood back and sides, Swiss pine soundboards and carbon-fibre reinforced maple necks. |
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12 Fret Neck Steel String
This is Gary’s Model L, similar in size to an “OM”.
The guitar is constructed with a Claro Walnut body and a Western Red Cedar top. Decorated with pearl diamond position markers, Herringbone purflings and is bound in Maple.
The 12 fret neck, 45mm wide fingerboard (at nut) and 635mm scale length combine to make this guitar a very comfortable instrument to play; particularly suited to finger-style playing.
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Resonator Guitar
A guitar that Gary built for himself using a spider resonator. Flamed Maple back and sides with a Sitka Spruce top. Pearl diamond-shaped inlays and "rope" purflings. |
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Custom Built Dreadnought Guitars
Click on the image and compare two handmade Dreadnought style
guitars that were built as commissions. One is designed to
echo the vintage American look with herringbone purflings and
abalone inlays, the other has a modern understated feel to
its design. Both are constructed with Indian Rosewood back
and sides and Sitka spruce soundboards and equipped with
Fishman pick-ups.
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 |  | Richmond Magazine I was featured in the March 2008 issue of Richmond Magazine. Click here to
see the full article on the publisher’s website.
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Single cutaway solid body
This guitar has a hand carved Bird’s Eye Maple top and neck. The guitar’s design is clean and understated, letting the quality of the materials and craftsmanship speak for themselves. The thinner than normal body makes this solid body practical to play for an extended period of time.
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Archive Page
This is a link to various instruments that Gary has built in the past. If you have one of Gary’s earlier guitars, he would be delighted to include it here. |