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Firstly huge apologies for not posting for a very long time! This will now I hope be a place of regular updates. It's been a very busy month here in Mid Wales as i've been teaching a guitar making course of which I'll post more about. However, during the first week, Sam Carter paid a visit to pick up the new Damselfly I made him. We went for the same woods as on his Dragonfly J but smaller guitar this time and no cutaway. Slightly different tonal emphasis - bit more treble cut but still with those lovely harmonics ringing through. Here's a clip of him in the workshop : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcWP-NsW5M
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The October guitar making course has just finished and it was great to see three lovely guitars spring from my new workshop here in Llanidloes, Mid Wales. The guys (who had travelled from France. South Wales and Liverpool) all produced very finely built instruments with great attention to detail including some nice inlay. They all played beautifully and sounded superb. Here's a quote from one of them just received, "Thanks Richard, I'm still on Cloud 9! Thank you again for a wonderful experience and making sure we delivered on beautiful, looking and sounding instruments." And here's some pics .
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This guitar was built on my May guitar making course this year. A beauty in Western Red Cedar and Claro Walnut. The model is my smallest - the 'Lacewing'. Note the beautiful pierced and inlayed wooden logo. A pro Jewellers' touch! My October course is full so note new dates for Spring 2016. April 7th -May 7th 2016 May 12th - June 11th 2016
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My first guitar building course student in Wales has finished and what a lovely guitar he made too. Great warmth, balance, projection and harmonics. Just right for the Tommy Emmanuel stuff he was learning. Lovely attention to detail also with head and fingerboard binding and logo inlay. With some stunning April weather, he had a great time here in the hills of Mid Wales. I'm onto the next one now! [gallery type="thumbnails" ids="977,976,975,978,973"]
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Just caught the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards on iplayer and saw one of my guitars (Cedar and Koa Damselfly) being played by Calum McColl with Guy Garvey from Elbow on a Tribute to Calum's Dad, Ewan McColl. They did a version of Ewan's classic, "The first time ever I saw your face".
