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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 and two will be coming our way in 2009. * Minstrel Grand Auditorium Cocobolo/75 year old German spruce. * Minstrel deep bodied Grand Concert cutaway African Blackwood/75 year old German spruce. |
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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 Grand Auditorium Aged German Spruce/Cocobolo
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- 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
£ 6,595.00
- Aged German Spruce top
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Sheppard Grand Concert Aged German Spruce/African Blackwood
Please click to listen
- 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
£ 9,125.00
- Aged German Spruce top
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