Prices of my hand made guitars vary depending on many factors but the following should give you a good indication of the level of investment you’ll be looking to make.
To build a classical guitar will usually take me approximately 120 hours over a period of 16 -20 weeks.
Torres Style Classical Concert Guitar
Starting price for standard model £1,850
Classical Guitar – Torres Style
- Indian Rosewood back and sides.
- European Spruce / Cedar Sound-board
- Spanish Cedar neck with Carbon Fibre Insert
- Side markers in MOP or Abalone on 3/5/7/and 12th optional.
- Rosewood bindings.
- Choice of Rosette.
- Ebony/rosewood fingerboard.
- Scale length 640mm or 650mm optional
- Gotoh Machine heads or similar.
- French Polish finish.
- Recommended Hard -Shell case extra
Suitable for those aspiring a high quality, hand made instrument but do not have the budget for more expensive wood, fittings etc.
Flamenco F1 Guitar with Cypress back and Sides
Flamenco F1 – Santos Hernandez Style £1.850 – £2,500
- Cypress back and sides
- Cedar or European Spruce Top
- Spanish Cedar neck with carbon fibre insert
- Rosewood bindings
- Ebony or Indian Rosewood Fretboard
- Optional Peg Heads or Gotoh Machine Heads
- Scale length 650mm or 660mm
- French Polish finish.
- Mop or Abalone inserts on 7th fret
- Ebony bridge or Indian Rosewood bridge
- Bone nut and Saddle
- Golpeador optional
- Recommended Hard- Shell case extra.
Classical Concert Guitar, Torres Style, Walnut back and sides, Swiss spruce soundboard.
Advanced Student/Performer £2,000 – £3,500
Custom made to the artist/performers requirements using the best quality materials within the specified budget.
Ukuleles – Soprano £320 , Classic £450 – £500 , Tenor £500-600
Available stock with a variety of woods and finishes
Concert Ukulele
Cherry Wood Tenor Ukulele
Soprano,Concert and Tenor Ukuleles
Dear Paul,
After viewing your excellent website, I have the following special request: would you be prepared to build me a classical guitar but with steel strings ? My reason for this request is as follows: I have played guitar since the age of ten (I am now seventy two) covering rock, folk and classical. I don’t profess to be any great shakes, but I do still enjoy playing – for my own amusement. I have a classical (nylon strung) guitar that I have played for the last twenty or so years, but I find that with advancing age, more and more effort is required to deal with the relatively high string action, especially around the top area of the fingerboard. I think that the lower action offered by a steel strung instrument would be a considerable help in this respect. I do much prefer the width of the standard classical guitar fingerboard to the narrower dimension of the normal acoustic guitar. Ideally, I would like the instrument to fit the standard classical guitar specification – flat fingerboard (48 mm nut width would be preferred to the standard 50mm width) with the standard body and neck dimensions. I recently saw the guitarist, Clive Carroll, at a concert in London. He played classical guitar music on a steel strung instrument and it sounded magnificent. I would be interested in your comments.
Best regards
Alec Shaw
Northampton