Luthiery | René Wilhelmy luthier

Transformer : From cedar 1995 to spruce 2006

15 September 2014Luthiery

In the winter of 2005, Jérôme Ducharme took possession of a new guitar, cedar top and rosewood Jacaranda back & sides, and with which he won few months later the same year, the GFA competition.
In the trade, I took possession of the one that I built 10 years earlier, a cedar top & very nice (unknow) Central America rosewood. Since I had not yet made a guitar model “Morency” featuring a spruce top, I decided to use that 1995 and to substitute a very old German spruce top having my latest developments and changes found in “Morency” model.
The result was very successful, and the guitar acquired by Alvaro Pierri.

Nice 2009 brazilian guitar

25 June 2014Luthiery, Showcase

I recently had the opportunity to perform minor maintenance of this guitar made in 2009 for Jeff Stinco of Simple Plan. The top is made with Canadian cedar, and the body with Brazilian (Jacaranda) rosewood, and which could come from the Bahia region.

: 2009

: 2009

: 2009

: At the edge of the lacquer

: 2009- Compatible Windows

Practice guitar (1994)

2 February 2014Luthiery, Showcase

In the early 90s, Rémi Boucher came to my shop and asked me to conceive a small practice guitar based on a prototype that he had made himself, using a ping pong paddle blade!
If the first goal was to work his right hand in tight spaces, like in train and plane, the prototype developed allowed him to work also his left hand, doing scales and arpeggios, while remaining few centimeters of the maximum dimensions desired.
This is the copy I kept and which was shown 20 years ago as part of the exhibition “Opus” at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

: Guitare de pratique

: Guitare de pratique