Serenghetti Guitars
“Serenghetti guitars are available in neck thru guitars as well as solid 1 piece guitars. My patent pending 1 piece(seamless guitars) are entirely hand carved from start to finish by myself.Serenghetti guitars are 100% USA built and every guitar is custom made! Serenghetti offers 6&7 string guitars, 4&5 string basses spanning over 3 truly innovative body designs and 2 headstock designs.We are also known for doing extreme custom work …total customer submitted base projects and prototypes for larger manufacturers.”
Ray Patterson CEO, Serenghetti Guitars
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Mervyn Davis Guitars
Mervyn’s fascination with instrument building started at a very early age and like many other South African boys he made use of petrol cans in his first attempts. Mervyn, part of a musical family, was inspired by his father who started his career by building a mandolin in a prisoner of war camp in Italy during the Second World War.
While studying architecture at the University of Port Elizabeth (1974 – 1978), Mervyn started receiving commissions from local musicians to build guitars and other instruments. During this period, he was also commissioned by the university to do all required maintenance of the instruments belonging to the music conservatoire.
After graduating in 1978 he started a career in full time instrument making which was only interrupted by two years military service between 1980 and 1982. Working in relative isolation in South Africa resulted in his developing a unique style of instrument building which is characterized by a high content of experimentation.
Although Mervyn’s work has become very different from the classic designs, his passion is still soundly rooted in the beauty of the work of the early masters. His quest remains to build instruments that meet the demands of modern composers, express modern aesthetics and make use of modern technology while retaining the romance and lure of the classic instruments.
Centuries ago, the guitar’s earliest ancestors where built by the Moors of North Africa. Now, once again, here in the Cradle of Humankind, these guitars reflect the spirit and aesthetic of the Motherland where the wood grows that they are built from.
Worldwide, this romantic heritage is carried into the 21st century in the hands of Luthiers like Mervyn Davis, and of recording artists and groups such as:
• Steve Newman
• Johnny Fourie
• Tony Cox
• Vusi Mahlasela
• Dozi
• Rudi Bauer
• Greg Georgiades
• Tananas
• Not My Dog
• SciCoustic
• Radio Kalahari Orkes
• CH2
• Aquarian Quartet
The international Acoustic Guitar magazine recently featured the following review of Mervyn Davis’ “Smooth Talker” series:
“South African Company Davis Luthiers has come up with a completely original approach to nylon string guitar construction. The model 1 uses a body similar to that of a banjo, but instead of a skin, it has a fan – braced Engelmann Spruce top. Using a completely modular design, the guitar is easily disassembled, and it includes built in LR Baggs electronics. The guitar’s neck is made from African Kiaat wood, which is also used for part of the Model 1’s body.”
You can learn more about Mervyn Davis Guitars at:
www.mervyndavisguitars.com
www.smoothtalkerguitars.com
Mervyn Davis Dreadnought Guitar
Mervyn Davis SmoothTalker Guitars
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Mervyn Davis Nylon String Guitar
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Mervyn Davis Guitars
Porter Guitars – Hand Made Guitars And Hand Wound Pickups From Brian Porter
All Porter Guitars are made by hand from start to finish. We hand select every piece of tonewood that goes into each instrument to make sure it’s exactly what the customer is looking for. There are currently three types of Porter Guitar models with several options included the base price. You can choose your color, hardware, woods and more in each model, resulting in a truly custom hand made instrument at a reasonable price. Model types range from the Porter Standard model which features solid color finishes, to the Porter Elite model which features highly figured woods and even more choices. The Porter Custom Hollow model rounds out the model types and featured chambered semi-hollow construction with your choice of top wood and f-hole placement. In addition to the three Porter models, we also do custom designs and guitar types.
All Porter Guitars feature hand wound Porter Pickups. Porter Pickups are custom wound to match the woods in the guitar and the playing style of the guitarist. Porter Pickups are available for sale through the Porter Pickups website for use in other guitars. We currently offer P90s, Humbuckers, Strat and Tele style pickups. Other pickup types are available for custom order.
Luthier Brian Porter believes that controlling all aspects of the instruments construction and sound, will result in an instrument that meets the customers tastes tonally and visually.
Visit the Porter websites for more information:
www.porterguitars.com
www.porterpickups.com
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Porter Guitar with Porter Bridge Pickup
Porter Single Coil Pickups
Maguire Guitars – Custom Made Guitars by Rick Maguire
For two decades, Rick Maguire has hand-crafted each and every Maguire instrument as if it were his only chance to leave his mark on this earth.
Since the creation of each instrument is a labor-intensive endeavor, Rick only offers the finest tonewoods. This requires that he regularly import wood from Australia, New Zealand and South America and cherry-pick the best pieces (whether figured or straight-grained) from each shipment. Out of every 1000 board feet of wood he imports, only about 50 board feet end up as Maguire instruments. The rest is sold or traded for woods of other origin.
Because provenance matters to Rick, he sources newly harvested tonewoods from certified sustainable-yield sawyers. Rick has also painstakingly stockpiled older and legally-protected tonewoods from dwindling pre-CITES legacy sources.
To learn more about Maguire Guitars, visit:
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A Beauty From Scott Walker Guitars
Not much to say about this one. It is simply a beautiful guitar from Scott Walker Guitars. I will let the guitar speak for itself.
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