Specifications:

        Timbers:    

      Scale length:
      650 mm

        Sound board:
        Cedar

      Neck width at the nut:
      52mm

        Back and sides:
        South American rosewood (Arched Back)

      Overall length:
      985 mm

        Finger board:
        African Ebony

      Body length:
      497 mm

        Bridge:
        South American rosewood

      Body width:
      upper bout 285 mm
      waist          242 mm
      lower bout 376 mm

        Bracing:
        Balsa lattice, carbon fibre reinforced.

      Body depth:
      increasing from 98 mm to 108 mm

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John made his first traditional Classical Guitar in 1989. He soon realised that guitar making was going to be much more than just a hobby so he set up a purpose built workshop in the Adelaide Hills where he has been making his instruments professionally since 1994.

With his background as a musician, along with an award winning 25 years as a cabinet maker, John now specialises in the contemporary (Lattice braced) classical guitar which sees him couple his intuition, acoustic sense and own ideas with modern materials to produce guitars that display a volume, projection and sustain previously unheard of.

John says of his craft, "I get great pleasure in making fine guitars, as the guitar is such a demanding and beautiful instrument. I hope to inspire the players as much as they have inspired me".