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Allow me to add some luthiers for Spanish classic guitars Conde Brothers : http://www.condehermanos.com/ Alberto Martín: http://albertomartinluthier.com/ René Aguilera: https://reneaguilera.com/ Manuel Contreras: http://www.manuelcontreras.com/
Aguilera might want to use their own site from time to time, seeing that the links in the middle of the page point to localhost:8888
I just had a new Kiesel guitar delivered a month ago. They can make custom guitars for you, and since they are factory direct, you can get a great deal. They are made in Southern California in Escondido.
Carvin Guitar on Sunset was a truly unique store and concept. You walk in, play some guitars, and buy everything a la carte. They would mainly sell you the parts, and you'd go home and build it yourself (though I guess they'd build it for you as well?). It was definitely higher end and those Carvins have a rabid fan base. I'm not really sure if they had guitars prebuilt, but I'm bringing this up because Carvin turned…
Although a Stratocaster (of any brand) can play perfectly—and every guitarist should own a strat—I'm very curious about drastic innovations. A guitar being a guitar, to make the smallest incremental progress in playability and tone, beyond what was achieved by the '90s, drastic things have to be done.
It seems to me that Toone breaks the cost/benefit threshold. However, I'm interested :-)
Other significant modern luthiers: Ken Parker: http://www.kenparkerarchtops.com/ Michihiro Matsuda: http://www.matsudaguitars.com/gallery.htm Ola Strandberg: https://strandbergguitars.com/ Linda Mantzer: http://www.manzer.com/guitars/ Last but not least, the Stradivarius of the steel-string guitar, Ervin Somogyi: http://www.esomogyi.com/
Multi-scale 7 string classical:
http://www.guitarrasfdc.com/2016/10/archive-guitar-no-37-cla...
10-string classical:
http://www.guitarrasfdc.com/2017/01/archive-guitar-no-42-10-...
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Allow me to add some luthiers for Spanish classic guitars Conde Brothers : http://www.condehermanos.com/ Alberto Martín: http://albertomartinluthier.com/ René Aguilera: https://reneaguilera.com/ Manuel Contreras: http://www.manuelcontreras.com/
I have a Manuel Contreras classical guitar I bought in Madrid about 45 years ago; if I recall correctly, it cost me about $150. I can't imagine what a guitar like that would cost me today.
Also positively surprised to see this here. Beautiful work. Since it’s HN, may a suggest to ones with the required skill: I think a lot of us would pay a crazy amount of money for a handcrafted, custom built to please all of one’s idiosyncrasys, keyboard. Computer keyboard I mean.
Other significant modern luthiers: Ken Parker: http://www.kenparkerarchtops.com/ Michihiro Matsuda: http://www.matsudaguitars.com/gallery.htm Ola Strandberg: https://strandbergguitars.com/ Linda Mantzer: http://www.manzer.com/guitars/ Last but not least, the Stradivarius of the steel-string guitar, Ervin Somogyi: http://www.esomogyi.com/
Also positively surprised to see this here. Beautiful work. Since it’s HN, may a suggest to ones with the required skill: I think a lot of us would pay a crazy amount of money for a handcrafted, custom built to please all of one’s idiosyncrasys, keyboard. Computer keyboard I mean.
You might ask around the geekhack[1] forums. Some folks there do custom builds to order, others sell bespoke keyboards, kits, or small-batch production runs. [1]: https://geekhack.org/