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Welcome to Simon Powis

Simon is an amazing performer based in New York, and I am excited to say he will soon receive two C900 guitars while teaching masterclasses at the Sydney Summer School in Jan 2015.  Here is a link to his blog article. http://www.classicalguitarcorner.com/simons-update-dec-2014/2151/

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Small tools made from repurposed gear

For those of you curious about some of the workings and tooling that goes into making guitars, I thought I would add this post I put up on the Delcamp forum.  A lot of small tools that I make for myself are made from old, otherwise useless things we have laying around. I plead guilty to hording anything that looks remotely useful in the hope I'll use it for something some day!  It's pretty satisfying when I finally find the use for it.  They may not be pretty but they can really work well. This is a little tool I made which I use for gluing weights under the top when tuning out resonances...

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