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cntarasi guitars
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Cntarasi Guitars:
Mission:
To make a distinctive guitar! One that looks good and more importantly plays and sounds great. A unique guitar that is hand made using quality hardware, great pickups and good tone wood. A guitar that gets better with age. Most of all a guitar that is affordable to everyone who wants to own and play a great guitar!
Profile:
I built my first guitar in 1986. I didn't have the money to buy a good guitar but that's what I wanted so I improvised and made one for myself. The project worked out well and I got just what I was looking for along with something I wasn't expecting. I wasn't expecting to become addicted to building guitars.
I began to build and re-build all kinds of guitars. I tried everything from using different woods and scale lengths to custom electronics and finishes. At one point I even had a guitar with over 100 different pickup switching options. I learned a lot about what makes a good guitar and how to go about building one.
After building more guitars than I knew what to do with for myself, I realized that the guitars that I was building were playing just as well and sounding better than the expensive "name brand" guitars my friends were playing. More importantly, I was building them for a lot less money than they were paying for theirs!
It was then that I decided to go into business.
Mission:
To make a distinctive guitar! One that looks good and more importantly plays and sounds great. A unique guitar that is hand made using quality hardware, great pickups and good tone wood. A guitar that gets better with age. Most of all a guitar that is affordable to everyone who wants to own and play a great guitar!
Profile:
I built my first guitar in 1986. I didn't have the money to buy a good guitar but that's what I wanted so I improvised and made one for myself. The project worked out well and I got just what I was looking for along with something I wasn't expecting. I wasn't expecting to become addicted to building guitars.
I began to build and re-build all kinds of guitars. I tried everything from using different woods and scale lengths to custom electronics and finishes. At one point I even had a guitar with over 100 different pickup switching options. I learned a lot about what makes a good guitar and how to go about building one.
After building more guitars than I knew what to do with for myself, I realized that the guitars that I was building were playing just as well and sounding better than the expensive "name brand" guitars my friends were playing. More importantly, I was building them for a lot less money than they were paying for theirs!
It was then that I decided to go into business.
Date
Feb 2, 2005
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