Preparing the sides for the back

Another video from 2006. This is a flamenca blanca which I think must have gone to Guitar Salon International.

Video with no sound

I know, we had some trouble getting this one uploaded, couldn’t edit and now we can’t even put music to it. It’s from a longer video so I will be publishing more excerpts from that.

Short workshop in Finland – 2006

The Tampere Guitar Festival is coming up again in June and I like to remember my experience there in 2006. I was invited to do a weeklong workshop on guitar-making in Granada. The experience and the people were great. In this photo you can see all of the teachers: Aliéksey Vianna, myself, Àlex Garrobé, Lorenzo Micheli and Enrico Bronzi. I guess it is obvious what they were teaching. Midnight canoe rides were fun too with some great sunsets. My students were guitar-making students at the nearby Ikaalinen institute. For a few years the organizers hosted a luthier’s exhibition but I never participated. Actually I think they started that the year after I was there. The teachers and players invited to this event have always been top-notch and it has really become a reference festival.

New series of short videos

Oh my that was a long time ago, before digital cameras. Photo by Manuel Ruiz.

Greatest Hits

I have just gone through all of my past publications (383 of them) checking for broken links and similar problems. Most of them have been cleaned up and I have selected a few to highlight as particularily interesting or relevant to me.  In the interest of seamless viewing to stave off boredom and cabin fever here they are.