| So what is a "good" guitar? For that matter,
what is a truly "great" guitar? Those of you who drop in to our site
regularly probably feel that I think they're ALL great. Not so.
For starters, Grant & I oversee all of the
buying for our store. If we didn't like the instrument, it
wouldn't end up in our store to begin with. Out of the thirty to
fifty guitars that are delivered to our store each week, the tough
part is not finding four or five for me to feature on the site. The
tough part is narrowing it DOWN to four or five!!!
In today's market, it is relatively easy
to find competent builders who have put together instruments with excellent
tonewoods, impressive craftsmanship and detail oriented finish work
... really good sounding guitars. You have to dig quite a bit deeper
to unearth a really inspired creation like this guitar by Sergei de Jonge!
There were certainly no angst-ridden moments of
indecision whether to include this gorgeous steel string in our What's
New section. It was a slam-dunk-no-brainer that shot to the top of
my list the moment I played it! |
