Walker Guitars: Fine handmade flat-top and archtop guitars.
I guess that my love affair for the acoustic guitar started when I was a teenager in the late '60s. Though I listened to my share of electric guitar heroes such as Clapton and Hendrix, the tone that touched my soul was what Stephen Stills called "wooden music". After hearing Doc Watson play though, my life was changed. I spent countless hours trying to learn his music, both his fingerstyle and his flatpicking style. What I found was that, although I never became a great musician, I was totally taken by that wooden sound of the acoustic guitar.
My goal as a professional guitar maker is to live well. By this I do not mean first and foremost making a lot of money! What I do mean is that I try to do my work with honor. That means honoring those people who came before me and those that are continuing the tradition of fine luthiery. It is also important to me to have an honorable relationship with those that I do business ...
Christopher Myles building excellent classical guitars since 1979. Buy a handmade guitar of unsurpassed quality direct from the luthier for a remarkably low price.
I, Christopher Myles, have been building high quality acoustic guitars since 1979 specializing in Torres style classical guitars. While adhering to traditional form and design I continually experiment with non-traditional tonewoods. I usually make between 12 and 20 guitars a year including a few steel stringed instruments. All "RED LABEL" guitars are made of the finest selected quartersawn, air dried tonewoods. The ribs are hand bent on a hot pipe and pegheads, heels and bridges are hand carved. Soundboards are carefully tuned and action is meticulously refined. All "RED LABEL" guitars are fully french polished.
The result is a handsome, beautiful guitar which plays easily and sounds wonderful.
If you are looking for a high quality handcrafted guitar, I'm sure you'll be pleased with a "RED LABEL".
Robin Guitars:
I was over at a friend's house in what must have been the summer of 1964. Someone said "Come see what's on the T.V.!" What I saw not only changed my life from that moment on, but literally millions of other kids and teenagers in America and around the world. The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show actually made me notice the electric guitar for the first time. Afterwards, I remember very clearly drawing pictures of electric guitars on my notebook in the sixth grade before I really knew what they were supposed to look like!
It wasn't too terribly long before guitars started showing up in the neighborhood and being in a band was the ultimate thing to do. Looking back we played some pretty cool instruments in those days... ones that are now sought after by collectors the world over.
Around 1971, I visited a used and "vintage" guitar shop in Houston and it was all over. This place was a funky lowdown hole in the wall full of what most people at the time would have considered junk. I think at that moment I was "lost" to the guitar as a "piece of art," as much or maybe even more so than actually playing it. Within a month, buying used and vintage guitars became a real obsession and I could hardly think of anything except playing guitars and hunting for them.
Before the year was out I had teamed up with a friend and we formed what would later become Houston's oldest and longest running "guitar shop" to date. During the following ten years we came to be known as the source for repairs, refinishing, and classic instruments in the Texas Gulf Coast area. We bought, sold, traded and repaired thousands of guitars from all manufacturers, acoustic and electric, American and foreign.
A departure from guitar shop life and a commitment to guitar building was a radical change from those formative years. That "obsession" of buying, selling, repairing, restoring, and customizing countless classic vintage and modern guitars soon became the foundation of Robin quality and design. After many hard years of cutting wood and dreaming "the dream," we continue to push forward with new designs and strive for even higher levels of craftmanship and quality ...
Eyb Guitars:
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