La Parisienne

  #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 20%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } La Parisienne Specs: 670 mm scale length 1 3/4″ wide at the nut Traditionally carved neck Quarter sawn Walnut neck, with the original Selmer headstock neck joint (this model features a truss rod access through soundhole) Neck is fully adjustable. Ebony Headplate Spherical fret ends (as per the original Selmer/Maccaferri design) Thick Ebony fingerboard Solid quarter sawn spruce soundboard;...

January 15, 2012   |   0 Comments

First Ever Selmer/Maccaferri Course at Roberto-Venn is Complete!

Well we worked our tails off and managed to get together some extremely nice sounding guitars. We were  very busy, and I have yet to post pics and info about the second and third weeks. I plan on sitting down over the next few days and go through the pictures and post them along with some info about our experience. Here is a picture of the...

August 2, 2011   |   2 Comments

First Week of the Selmer/Maccaferri Guitar Building Course

Easy Does It The first week of the gypsy guitar building course has now come and gone, and we’ve made quite a bit of progress. We are building  a total of six guitars. Brendan from California, and Philipp from Germany are building 14 fret D-hole guitars, while Andrew and myself are building two oval holes and one 14 fret D-hole each.We managed to get everyone’s rims together including...

July 17, 2011   |   0 Comments

Roberto_Venn Selmer Maccaferri course part 3

#gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Andrew, checking out my Selmer style guitar body. Visiting Flagstaff with the family to escape the Phoenix sumer Bound Body Selmer Oval rosette Selmer Maccaferri style necks We have been very busy and enduring the hot Phoenix summer and a massive Haboob (sandstorm) which came right over South Mountain and infiltrated the shop! Here...

July 10, 2011   |   0 Comments

Selmer/Maccaferri style gypsy guitar building course

We are making good progress with all of the jigs and templates for the Selmer/Maccaferri style guitar course. To test the jigs for the class we are making a couple of guitars. Here is a picture of the rim assembly of one guitar before the liners were installed. Although the weather here is getting quite hot we are looking forward to a successful first class,...

June 23, 2011   |   0 Comments