Luthier Sharleen Simmons interview at the Holy Grail Guitar Show

Here's a luthier Sharleen Simmons interview recorded during the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show.

Sharleen Simmons website: www.simmonscustomguitars.com
Luthier Sharleen Simmons interview during the Holy Grail Guitar Show

Until the next interview from the Holy Grail Guitar Show or elsewhere, keep on playing the guitar!

Pierre.

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Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop. This year, the idea was to record a series of Luthier Chronicle with Michael to give a full visit of his luthier workshop and to have a better idea of the way he build his wonderful acoustic guitars.

Guitar tech and luthier Francisco Rodriguez interview
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Guitar tech and luthier Francisco Rodriguez interview

Francisco Rodriguez is a luthier I met at the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show. It happens he is not only a luthier but also a guitar tech once in a while. So he gets the experience of maintaining and managing the guitars he built on the road. Francisco is the guitar tech for the Dire Straits tribute band Brothers in band.

Rainer Tausch guitar - Interview during the Holy Grail Guitar Show

Here's luthier Rainer Tausch interview done during the 2015 edition of the Holy Grail Guitar Show where he was exhibiting.

Rainer website: www.tausch-guitars.de
Luthier Rainer Tausch interview during the @HolyGrailGuitar Show

Until the next interview from the Holy Grail Guitar Show or elsewhere, keep on playing the guitar!

Pierre.

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Device to measure the thickness of the finish - Michael Greenfield (luthier) - Guitar finishing

Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop. This year, the idea was to record a series of Luthier Chronicle with Michael to give a full visit of his luthier workshop and to have a better idea of the way he build his wonderful acoustic guitars.

Peggy White luthier guitar

Here's luthier Peggy White interview who studied with Linda Manzer.

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Luthier Michael Greenfield workshop visit 2/2

Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop.

Here's a Japanese luthier Kaz Goto interview from Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars done during the Holy Grail Guitar Show in 2015.

Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars website: www.jerseygirlhg.com
Kaz Goto interview - Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars at the @HolyGrailGuitar show

Until the next interview from the Holy Grail Guitar Show or elsewhere, keep on playing the guitar!

Pierre.

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Michael Greenfield luthier workshop
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Michael Greenfield – Luthier workshop visit 1/2

Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop.

Here's a Belgium luthier Hilko Nackaerts interview recorded during the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar show in Berlin.

Hilko website: www.hilkoguitars.com
Belgium luthier Hilko Nackaerts interview at the Holy Grail Guitar show

Until the next interview from the Holy Grail Guitar Show or elsewhere, keep on playing the guitar!

Pierre.

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Here's an interview with an Iceland luthier, Gunnar Orn who was an exhibitor during the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show in Berlin.

Gunnar Facebook page: www.facebook.com/OrnCustomGuitars
Iceland luthier Gunnar Orn interview at the Holy Grail Guitar show

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Andy Powers chronicle: @TaylorGuitars neck
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Andy Powers chronicle: Taylor Guitars neck

In January 2016, while The Guitar Channel was in California to cover the NAMM, the opportunity presented itself to not only do a factory visit at the Taylor Guitars El Cajon facility, but also do an in-depth interview with the founder Bob Taylor and record three video chronicles with the in-house master builder Andy Powers in his very own workshop.

#16 Spartan Project with @SpringerGuitars: final episode and first notes

Here's the 16th and final episode of the Spartan Project video series.  You will see how the luthier Mikaël Springer is putting the last touch to the guitar. You will also get to hear the very first notes played on the instrument, an historical moment!
#16 Spartan project - Final episode

Photos extracted from the guitar setup video

Previous episodes of the Spartan Project
The goal of the Spartan Project is to document the building of a guitar for me by luthier Mikaël Springer.

Assona Curve from @MJSGuitars: a great guitar
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Assona Curve from MJS Guitars: a great guitar

I met the luthier Godefroy Maruejouls from MJS Guitars during the Guitares au Beffroi festival in 2015 where he was exhibiting his instruments.

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Andy Powers: the new 12-string Taylor Guitars

Taylor Guitars has recently done a full rework on their 12-string Taylor guitars range. We took this opportunity to do a Skype interview to talk about it with Andy Powers, the master builder at Taylor Guitars in San Diego.

Here's the 15th episode of the Spartan Project video series.  You will see how the luthier Mikaël Springer is doing the final guitar setup.
#15 Spartan project - Guitar setup

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Final drilling for the stop bar installation:

Installation of the Häussel P90 pickup:

Shielding of the electronic cavity:

Previous episodes of the Spartan Project
The goal of the Spartan Project is to document the building of a guitar for me by luthier Mikaël Springer.

Here's the 14th episode of the Spartan Project video series. You will see how the luthier Mikaël Springer is doing his fretting on the guitar. It is a very crucial step of the process as the way the frets are dressed is paramount to the quality of the sound and of the comfort of the instrument.
#14 Spartan Project: Fretting

Close up photo of the fretting once finished on the guitar:

Previous episodes of the Spartan Project
The goal of the Spartan Project is to document the building of a guitar for me by luthier Mikaël Springer.

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Marco Viola luthier interview (MOV Guitars)

Marco Viola (MOV Guitars) is a luthier based in Italy. He was one of the exhibitors of the guitar show during the 2016 edition of the Guitares au Beffroi festival.

Yes you can get Slash Guns N'Roses Paradise City sound (or at least get close to it) with the Apollo Twin Universal Audio interface with a couple of plugins and the Burst guitar from luthier Mikaël Springer.
Paradise City sound with the Universal Audio interface and a Springer guitar
It's always a challenge to try to get close to a legendary tone from a hit like Paradise City.

Luthier Linda Manzer interview at the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show

Discover in this Linda Manzer interview at the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show one of the rare women who is very well known in the luthier world. Linda worked for musicians like Pat Metheny or Carlos Santana just to name those two.

Nik Huber luthier chronicle - The Guitar Channel
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Nik Huber Luthier: to relic or not to relic?

On this new Luthier Chronicle, I asked Nik Huber the shakespearian question: to relic, or not to relic?

Luthier Ted Astrand interview at the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show
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Luthier Ted Astrand interview at the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show

Here's a Ted Astrand interview done during the 2015 edition of the Holy Grail Guitar Show. Several luthier friends told me to check-out Ted during the show so I listened to their advice and went to meet Ted. His work is really stunning. The guitar presented in Berlin looks both gorgeous and elegant.

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Pro Backstager announcement – Aquilina Basses

Name : Aquilina Basses
Type : Luthier
Web : www.aquilinabasses.com
Sébastien builds high-quality instrument with a very elegant design which provides a great balance. He exposes regularly at the NAMM and he sells his bass guitars all over the world. if you understand French, you can watch a video of interview of him during the 2016 NAMM in this article.

A couple of Aquilina Basses

The instrument presented during the 2016 Winter NAMM

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Andy Powers - Master Builder at Taylor Guitars

In this interview, meet Taylor Guitars master builder Andy Powers. Meeting and getting to talk with the luthier involved in the development of all the guitars at Taylor was very interesting to understand more how a huge player in the industry like Taylor operates. In fact Taylor builds around 600 guitars per day with an unsurpassed level of quality in the industry.

Taylor Guitars website: www.taylorguitars.com

Taylor master builder - Adam Powers interview
Here's the full interview with Adam Powers.

Frank Hartung interview, luthier at the Holy Grail Guitar Show

Here's a Frank Hartung interview done during the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show. He was one of the German luthier exhibiting during the show.

Lars Rasmussen interview at the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show

Here's a Lars Rasmussen interview done during the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show. Lars is a Swedish luthier who build high end acoustic guitar.

Pro Backstager announcement: luthier Maurice Dupont
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Pro Backstager announcement: luthier Maurice Dupont

Name : Maurice Dupont
Type : Luthier
Web : www.acoustic-guitars.com
Maurice Dupont is one of the great gentleman of the French lutherie. He manufactures guitars surrounded by a team in his workshop near Cognac in France. Well known for his type of gypsy guitar, his production covers a much wider spectrum from classical guitar to solid-body through its famous Manouche guitar or jazz oriented instruments.

You can find his guitars in his Paris store Dupont des Arts (3 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris France) right next to Bastille and Gare de Lyon.

Luthier Nic Delisle interview

During my coverage of the 2015 Montreal Jazz Festival I had the pleasure to do a Nic Delisle interview. Nic is a luthier for Island Manufacture Instrument. He is installed in the Montreal island north of downtown in a co-working space with other luthiers. He has a special approach to guitar building with an unorthodox design which is very original.

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Leo Guitars: interview with the luthier Darko Milojevic

Here's an interview with luthier Darko Milojevic from Leo Guitars (www.leoguitars.com) during the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show. Darko has been building guitars for 7 years now so knows what he is talking about and the high quality of his instruments shows it. Reinterpreting the Les Paul theme is not that easy, especially when you want to bring your own special flavour to this timeless classic of the electric guitar.

I have recently received a mail from Francisco Rodriguez, luthier for FranFret Guitars, where he told me about the creation of the CSGB, a new association in Spain to gather all the guitar builders, similar to what the EGB (www.europeanguitarbuilders.com) is doing at the European level and the APLG (www.aplg.fr) in France. You can read the press release for the details.

I wish the this new association all the best for the future.

The CSGB can count on The Guitar Channel to be a strong partner for its upcoming projects and initiatives.

Pierre.

Press Release of the CSGB
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