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My name is John Evans and here are some photos of some of the guitars that I have built. As a life-long guitar player myself, I am passionate about great tone. I specialise in building light, very responsive steel string acoustic guitars that are a pleasure and an inspiration to play. I offer a very personal service and will be pleased to build, customise and personalise a guitar to your requirements.
There are wide choices of tone woods available and design choices to be made. I will gladly talk you through each of these aspect of construction explaining the effect they will have in order to create an instrument which will be perfect for you. All aspects of the build can be customised and personalised to satisfy your needs as a player. My objective is to produce a beautiful guitar to enable you to fulfil your musical aspirations. I have many years experience of performing guitar repairs and set-ups on my own guitars and I take great pride in being able to significantly improve how guitars feel and play. Frank Finnochio was my first teacher and I studied with him in the United States (see www.finocchioguitar.com). Frank is a great guy and was an inspiration to me. It was a life-changing experience for me when I realised that I could make guitars that sound and look great.
I then studied with Stephen Hill. www.spanishguitars.co.uk Stephen is an expert builder of Flamenco and Classical guitars and a fine player in these styles. He is well established and is actively building guitar, in the town of La Herradura, Granada. With Stephen I learnt the Spanish method of construction and developed my hand tool skills. I love the process of hand-making guitars and it is very satisfying to transform pieces of wood into a beautiful instrument. The joy and pleasure of playing your own custom specified and built guitar cannot be under estimated.
My mission is to produce guitars that have good tone combined with maximum playability. The kind of guitar that is very difficult to put down once picked up. Whether finger picked or strummed the guitar is the instrument that has formed and shaped popular music more than any other. It´s portability and versatility make it the perfect instrument. My personal inspiration have been the guitars built by early American Builders such as Gibson and Martin. Many of the early makers were players too and they were trying to make guitars that sounded good and were comfortable to play. I have particular respect for the early Gibson L1s. They are light, have ample volume and fantastically well balanced tone. My base is a town called Nerja in Andalusia, in southern Spain. It is a beautiful place to both live and make guitars. There is a strong history of Flamenco and Classical guitar building here although my personal preference is for steel-strung acoustic guitars.
If you would like me to create your perfect dream guitar please contact me to discuss further. I am currently accepting commissions. I can make a left handed instrument at no extra charge and will be pleased to personalise a guitar for you with the inlay and decoration of you choice. I guarantee it will sound great. If you would like to buy one of my existing guitars please do not hesitate to contact me. I also do repairs and customisation work. All work is done by myself and is fully guaranteed. I will give an appraisal when I have seen the instruments, discuss what needs to be done and provide an estimate at that time.
Please check out the pictured guitar(s) for sale and listen to the sample music recordings in the "Music Samples" page. Also, see examples of previous guitars which I have built along with comments from buyers.
Thanks for looking at my website!
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