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Gerald Sheppard Guitars We are delighted to be Gerald Sheppard’s UK representative. To quote a customer, Gerald Sheppard is “Up there with Olson, Claxton, Traugott, in the absolute top bracket.” Gerald has been building his superlative guitars since the late nineteen seventies, working as a full time luthier since 1993. His background was in industrial design and quality control, having a BSc in Industrial Technology his attention to detail and immaculate finishing are second to none. Gerald has ‘a five point focus’; tone and beauty are of course paramount but intonation, playability and durability are also essential qualities. Only the very finest of materials are used. Tone related design features include concentricity of the lower bouts and tuned chamber frequencies. He says ‘"What I build must first satisfy me, but the biggest test is that it must satisfy the musician. I must assume that the guitarist has an excellent ear for fine tone based upon years of experience; why else would he/she even be interested in a high quality instrument? My intention is to help the guitarist present a piece of music to the best of his/her ability, and for it to sound the way it was intended to sound." Gerald only builds around twenty guitars a year. |
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Grand Auditorium Aged German Spruce/Cocobolo
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Grand Concert Aged German Spruce/African Blackwood
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Sheppard Petit Concert Sitka/Rosewood
A beautiful seep bodied small guitar. A tad smaller than OO this is an awesome guitar. There are still some who don't believe what a great luthier can do with so little wood. Playing this will change their minds.
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• Sitka spruce top
• Rosewood back and sides
• 13 frets to the body
• 25.4 scale
• 1 ¾” nut width
• 2 1/4 string spacing at saddle
• 14 1/8” lower bout
• Mahogany neck
• No cutaway
• B/W/B/R/B top border
• Maple bindings
• Ebony headstock veneer
• Select Blue Paua tulip position markers
• Select Blue Paua rosette
• MoP logo
• Ebony fretboard
• Ebony bridge
• Gotoh tuners
• Ebony tuner buttons
• Bone nut and saddle
• Ebony bridge pins
• Clear pickguard
• Cedar Creek custom case
£ 6,850.00
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Sheppard Grand Concert (OM) Englemann/Malaysian Blackwood
Another stunning guitar from Gerald with beautiful snakewood accents. It has incredible clarity and depth of tone and plays like dream.
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• Englemann spruce top
• Malaysian blackwood back and sides
• 14 frets to the body
• 25.4” scale
• 1 ¾” nut width
• 2 ¼” string spacing at saddle
• 15” lower bout
• Mahogany neck
• B/R/B purfling
• Snakewood bindings, body and fingerboard.
• Ebony headstock veneer
• Snakewood arrowhead position markers
• Select Blue Paua side dots
• Select Blue Paua rosette
• Pearl logo
• Ebony fretboard
• Ebony bridge
• Gotoh 510 tuners
• Black tuner buttons
• Bone nut and saddle
• Ebony bridge pins with abalone dot
• Clear pickguard
• Cedar Creek case
£ 7,195.00
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Sheppard Grand Concert Aged German Spruce/African Blackwood
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- Aged German Spruce top
- African Blackwood back and sides
- Soft cutaway
- 25.4” scale
- 1 3/4" nut width
- 2 1/4" string spacing at saddle
- 15" lower bout
- Ebony headstock veneer
- Flamed maple bindings
- Abalone rosette
- Bone nut and saddle
- Ebony fretboard
- Ebony bridge
- Mother of Pearl inlaid logo
- Tulip abalone position markers
- Gotoh tuners
- Ebony tuner buttons
- Clear pickguard
- Deluxe American Vintage case
African Blackwood is expensive for a good reason and that's not just its rarity, the tone is legendary.
£ 9,125.00
- Aged German Spruce top
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Sheppard Grand Auditorium Aged German Spruce/Cocobolo SOLD
See the Acoustic Magazine review, this website, central menu, reviews.
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A beautiful Cocobolo set on this GA, and and amazing guitar. An example of why Gerald is rated as one of the top names in contemporary lutherie.
- Aged German Spruce top
- Cocobolo back and sides
- 25.4” scale
- 1 3/4" nut width
- 2 1/4" string spacing at saddle
- 15 3/4" lower bout
- Ebony headstock veneer
- Flamed maple bindings
- Abalone rosette
- Bone nut and saddle
- Ebony fretboard
- Ebony bridge
- Mother of Pearl inlaid logo
- Tulip abalone position markers
- Gotoh tuners
- Ebony tuner buttons
- Clear pickguard
- Deluxe American Vintage case
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- Aged German Spruce top
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