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Preamble

25.12.2022

The year 2022 is coming to an end and was full of beautiful projects. Thank you to all customers for their interest in my work, and their patience! The month of January will be favorable for the addition of a good number of photos and videos of the latest work and achievements in progress. Looking

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12.04.2022

Small spring cleaning which was essential on the site. Given the constant evolution (?) of the plugins needed for the layout, some content and others things had ceased to be available for a while! Otherwise the work in the workshop is going well at the beginning of spring, a guitar will soon be in the

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25.02.2022

May Ukraine find peace and freedom…

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12.02.2022

The great Spanish luthier Jose Luis Romanillos passed away at the very honorable age of 90. He will have joined Stradivari in this regard. I really enjoyed listening to his instruments, including those played by Julian Bream of course. There is the famous book “Guitars” by Tom and Mary Anne Evans, which was a gold

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06.04.2021

Welcome, Already more than a year of confinement due to the pandemic. I finally I received my 1st dose of the vaccine, I’m having some hope for the future… I’m back again this year with this publication, to recognize a mentor who was of great importance in my luthier career: Irving Sloane. I hope to

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The great master Julian Bream died Aug. 14

The great master of the guitar and lute died at 87. Thanks for everything Maestro Julian Bream. R.I.P. As a luthier, he was the detonator of my career. As an amateur guitar player and also on the lute long time, he remains at the top of my most outstanding influences. If I partly owe him

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