Here’s a Larrivee L09 Custom Shop. Imagine my excitement upon getting an email from Larrivee with photos of some highly figured Indian rosewood sets that they had available.
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Here is an interesting Beaver Creek 4 Course Tiple Conversion. Sometimes, players need instruments in forms that aren’t readily available, custom builds are out of the question, and so we have to find a way to meet the need.
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Announcing the Larrivee Limited P-01 ISS Commemorative Parlor Guitar!
Larrivée Vancouver is starting a limited run of P-01 parlors that will replicate the Larrivee guitar that has been used on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past decade.
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The Gibson J-35 is back, and what an entrance!
Originally produced in 1936, the J-35 was displaced by the classic (and slightly more expensive) J-45, and went out of production in 1942. About 3000 were originally made.
The headstock has the vintage Gibson script logo and the “Only A Gibson Is Good Enough” banner.
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Here is a wonderful flat-top steel string guitar from Ryo Ryosuke Kobayashi, built during 2012. Ryo Ryosuke Kobayashi apprenticed to Sergei de Jonge at his shop in Chelsea, Quebec.
This impressive instrument features a somewhat oversize classical shaped body and an elegant contoured cutaway. The top is bound and the purfling follows the line of the cutaway very nicely.
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These two spectacular Gibson J-200M models, one a Trophy 75th Anniversary — the last of of a limited run of 75 instruments, made in Bozeman, Montana and celebrating the 75th anniversary of the J-200. These are the last two new J-200M guitars available anywhere.
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