july 2015 - Luthiers Hands

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Issue August 2015
Published by: T.TAN
Photograph/ Art Work: T.Tan, L.Bouchereau, J.Kanda, C.Turnbull, D.Enke, L.Stansell, Rebel Ukes,
A.Mcfarlen
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Acoustic Guitars
Loïc Bouchereau | Moonchild 4-8
Joji Kanda | Dreadnought 10-14
Martin | 00028c 15-19
Electric Guitars
Treble Left Guitars | NV 22-26
Enke Designs | Electric Sitar 26-32
Ukuleles
Les Stansell Ukes | Black Walnut Tenor 34-38
Joji Kanda | 6 StringTenor 39-43
Rebel Ukes | Alchemist 45-49
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Please contact me if you’d like one of
my guitars!
The Moonchild model is a project started three
years ago gathering all my aesthetic inspirations,
balanced between Gothic architecture, contemporary
ergonomics and functionality. The soft multi-scale
fretting enhances the bass response without affecting
playability or aesthetics. Despite her small body,
Moonchild has a very balanced voice, fast and loud
response in the trebles and mid-range, with a deep
backing bass. This makes the Moonchild a very good
fingerpicking guitar with subtle harmonics. In creating
the Moonchild, I integrated the important aspects of
a good guitar; sound, aesthetics and ergonomics, all
considered as equals to push the guitar at her best.
List Price $4800
Specs:
Top: Bearclaw Sitka spruce top
Back & sides: Indian rosewood
Neck: Honduran mahogany
Bridge: Brazilian rosewood
Binding: Wenge with Maple purfling
Rosette and heel cap: Spalted maple
Saddle: Bone
Bridge pins: Black horn
Schertler tuners with ebony buttons
Body length: 492 mm
Total length: 1025 mm
Lower bout: 377 mm
Body depth: 107 to 97 mm
Scale length: 25 to 25.75 inches
Photo credit : Pure Shot Studio
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Click here to contact Loïc
Bouchereau
Please contact me if you’d like one of
my guitars!
Born in Yokohama, Japan, 1975.
Studied guitar making under Sergei de Jonge.
Currently making an instrument per month in
Naha, Okinawa.
Specs:
Top: Redwood
Back & Sides: Madagascar rosewood
Neck: Wenge
Cocobolo Fingerboard, Bridge, Binding &
Headplates
Okinawan Minsa Pattern Mosaic Rosette
Waverly Tuners
Jescar EVO Gold Fret
Hide Glue Joints
French Polish Finish
25.5” Scale Length
1 3/4” mm Nut Width
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Click here to contact Joji Kanda
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This guitar is available through
Goodacoustics
This is a 1963 000-28c converted to a 00042 by
John Greven. John worked as a repairman in
George Gruhn’s shop for a number of years and
really pulled out the stops. He slimmed the neck
and reused the old steel tuners as well as the
original bindings. The finish for the back and
sides is also retained.
The topwood is Adirondack spruce from John
Arnold. This top is from an ancient tree from the
Smokies Mountains and has fantastically tight
grain 60/inch and perfectly quartered, displaying
excellent silking.
Specs:
Model: 000-28c converted to 00042
Top: Adirondack Spruce from West Virginian
Smoky Mountains
Back and sides: Brazilian Rosewood
Neck: Mahogany
Nut Width: 1 13/16”
String Spacing: 2 1/4”
Scale: 25.4”
Body Length: 20 1/2”
Lower Bout: 15”
Upper Bout: 11”
Body Depth: 3 1/4- 4 1/4”
Body Depth: 3 1/4- 4 1/4”
Bridge: Ebony
Rosette: Abalone
Backstrip: Marquetry
Purfling: Abalone, 42 style
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Click here to contact
Goodacoustics
Leo
Buendia
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Barron
River Ukes
Please contact me if you’d like one of
my guitars!
Treble Left proudly presents the NV “Envy”. This
customised electric guitar has been elegantly designed
with comfort in mind. The unique curves and
contours make the NV both aesthetically appealing
and a pleasurable experience regardless of your
preferred playing position. Australian Red Cedar
has long been revered as one of the finest timbers
for cabinetry available. This exquisite Australian
timber glistens under sunlight, shimmering between
a brilliant gold through to burnt caramel. The carved
rose is offset with a brilliant ruby inlay ensuring this
guitars boutique status.
Specs:
Body NV:“Envy” commissioned for Lori Turnbull
Body: Solid Red Cedar
Finish: Clear Coat Enamel, Natural
Neck Construction: Rock Maple
Fretboard: Rosewood
Neck Carve: STD half Round
Neck Reinforcement: 2 way
Headstock: Strat Style Headstock
Fingerboard Radius:12, 22 frets
Position Markers and Inlays: MOP Dots, Rose –
Carved Ruby, Side markers STD
Pickup Bridge: DiMarzio DP100
Pickup Neck:DiMarzio DP161
Electronics: CTS 250k pots, CTS 3 way
Hardware: Schaller
Scale Length:24.75”
Bridge Spacing: 53mm
Nut Width: 43mm
Heel Width: 51mm
Neck Thickness at 1st Fret: 25mm
Neck Thickness at 12th Fret: 27mm
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Guitars
Since 2005, we have been representing fine luthiers and offering great guitars to players
worldwide. Here are just some
of great builders we work with:
John Greven
Michael Bashkin
Ben Wilborn
Dave Gentner
Jack Spira
Lame Horse Guitars
Behrad Gorgani
Benjamin Paldacci
Please contact me if you’d like one of
my instruments!
This Guitar / Sitar has a hollow core graphite neck
with ten sympathetic strings inside it and flying
titanium frets. The body is Padouk and Cocobolo
and it weighs 4.3 lbs. There are separate pickups
and controls for the primary playing strings and the
sympathetic set, and the sympathetic strings can be
tuned to any chosen tuning.
This guitar will be outfitted with what I believe to be
the world’s first wireless remote foot pedal system for
controlling the on-board functions such as: sympathic
string damping, sympathetic string volume, jawari
and clean sustain for both primary and sympathetic
strings, and an over-all master volume pedal.
This instrument will also feature planetary machine
pegs by Pegheds.
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Click here to contact David Enke
Aloha! We offer ukes from builders past and present such as Kawika,
Kerry Char, Steve Grimes, KoAloha, David Aumann, Compass Rose,
Beau Hannam and Les Stansell. Feel free to drop by!
Les Stansell Ukuleles
Black Walnut Tenor
Les Stansell Ukuleles
Black Walnut Tenor
Please contact me if you like my uke!
Built with a strict adherence to the traditional
Spanish/Classical guitar design and using the
highest quality Oregon myrtle and Port Orford
cedar. This instrument is among the first ukuleles
built from a substantial batch of myrtle acquired in
2013 by Stansell Ukuleles.
Stansell Ukuleles are built with the primary
focus on “form following function” and extreme
attention to detail . . . incorporating design only
when it contributes to structural integrity, tone and
playability. .
Specs:
Back and sides, faceplate: Black walnut
Neck and bracing: Port Orford cedar
Fingerboard, bridge, binding: Oregon myrtle
Nut and saddle: Bone
Neck width @ nut: 37mm
String spacing @ nut: 28mm
Neck width @ 14th fret: 47mm
String spacing @ bridge: 42mm
Weight: 17 Oz
Hand applied shellac finish
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Click here to contact Les Stansell
Please contact me if you’d like one of
my ukuleles!
Born in Yokohama, Japan, 1975.
Studied guitar making under Sergei de Jonge.
Currently making an instrument per month in
Naha, Okinawa.
Specs:
Top: Hawaiian koa
Back & Sides: African ebony
Neck: Honduras mahogany
Bracing: Adirondack spruce
Snakewood Fingerboard, Bridge, Binding &
Headplates
Okinawan Minsa Pattern Mosaic & Abalone
Rosette
Waverly Tuners
Jescar EVO Gold Fret
Hide Glue Joints
French Polish Finish
17” Scale Length, 38mm Nut Width
Gold alloy kula inlayed at 14th fret
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Click here to contact Joji Kanda
Kummer’s Vintage Instruments
954-752-6063
www.kummersvintage.com
Please contact me if you like my uke!
Natural selection is the process where forms of life
that can adapt to changes in their environment tend
to survive and reproduce. It’s evolution. “Beyond
Natural Selection” is our rebellious philosophy.
We strive to go above and beyond what seems to be
natural laws but in fact it’s never the laws in the first
place. Order emerges from a random and chaotic
world. Ordinary, traditional, common, normal,
typical, regular, average - we go against them. With
the elements of creativity, The Rebel presents itself
when we free our minds.
Specs:
Model: Alchemist, Tenor
Top: Spruce in the middle, Mahogany on the sides
with spruce strip
Back and sides: Indian Rosewood
Neck: Mahogany
Neck center strip and heel: Maple
Top and back binding: Rosewood
Fretboard, fretboard binding, bridge, faceplates:
Ebony
Sound hole style: Eccentric sound hole and four
ascending side sound ports
Arm Rest: Macassar Ebony
Fretboard bound Inlay: Maple
Position markers: Maple at 5th, 7th, 10th, 12th, 15th
Headstock Logo: Maple (The Rebel Origami Crane)
Nut, Saddle: TUSQ
Finish: Hi-gloss mirror-like
Neck width @ nut: 38mm
String spacing @ nut: 28mm
Neck width @ 14th fret: 47mm
String spacing @ bridge: 43mm
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Click here to contact Rebel Ukes