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A little background ...
It was in the early 1970’s, during a period when I was studying the flamenco guitar in Spain, that I first developed an interest in guitarmaking. I had the great fortune at that time of being able to learn some of the basics of traditional Spanish guitar construction from local luthiers in Andalusia and Majorca – an experience that encouraged me to shift my focus from playing guitars to making them.
I have spent many years since then building on that initial experience – often through my studies of the instrument designs and construction techniques of famous Spanish guitar makers - from Ramírez, Hernández, and Bernabé to Contreras, Romanillos, and Reyes. And even though I have always had great respect for the work of these master craftsmen, I was inspired, virtually from the beginning of my career as a luthier, to create my own concept of the flamenco guitar based on the use of exotic woods, the evolution of flamenco guitar repertoires, and a balanced integration of "old world" and "new world" techniques.
The type of instrument I had in mind needed to be a visual "work of art" but, just as importantly, it also had to be structurally and acoustically ...more >>>
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