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New for 2012, Encounters with the Arch-Luthier

coming soon...

I've put together a short paper about how I categorize guitars by sound qualities. Read it here ! [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 559.47 KB]
This paper compares two guitars I've built and contrasts the sound; tone and volume. This includes (links to) audio file samples. 

Recent Guitars

#220 "Wrinkle" Macassar Ebony, German Spruce, Rosewood neck

#219 NBN Concert style body, Steel string acoustic, Englemann Spruce top and Jatoba body.

 

• A few previous guitars, some with audio and/or video samples

• #210 (Audio)
  
• #211 (Audio)
  
• #212
• #213
• #215 (Audio and video)
  
•  #218 (no audio or video)
  
• You might be interested in the Technobabble   section, where I share some interesting thoughts about guitar making and acoustics. Check out Chladni patterns, heretical views on shaping tone, ring bridges, fractal bracing and more. Comments are welcome.
• If you want to keep updated on new stuff I'm doing, sign up for the newsletter. Newsletters are very infrequent and I don't spam anyone.
• Read about the true story of Lutherie HERE . Well, I think it's the true history. It's hard to tell what is truth and what is fiction sometimes.
•  Photos and content from my April 2010 Boulder Guitar Society presentation on Instrument makers of the 1970s, in and around Boulder County Colorado  Anyone interested in Great instruments by great makers will be interested in this resource. There is a lot more here than we were able to cover at the meeting.

Cover from a 1980s catalog of Charles F. Morrison Classical guitars.

 Please direct all inquiries to Charles F Morrison.