Joao Loureiro performed live at St. Dunstable Church

jmcustomguitars

Joao Loureiro performed live at St. Dunstable Church, London, January 2017 with his José Marques guitar

richh

Sounds very good - you obviously made this guitar for him, so perhaps you'd like to give some details about it?

jmcustomguitars

Hello Richh
Yes was made by me 

what you wish to know?

woods are
back and sides Rosewood
top alpine spruce
neck cedar
finnish shellack
sound hole olivewood

if course her all woods are high quality, but that is obvious

richh

Very impressive - may be worth moving the thread to another section, such as 'made in the UK' though?

Sporky

I think it'd be nice too if you could post a bit about the guitar; why this model (if it's a fixed model), or why the specs if it's all custom, any specific features, that sort of malarky.

carlos

As a Portuguese guitarist (living in the UK), I'm embarrassed how few other Portuguese guitarists I know.

That was wonderful performance and sound. And yes, this should be in the Made in the UK section.

jmcustomguitars

Thank you 

Well sprecs of the guitar i had done some already, like woods

The shape is almost always this one, i had done some different (bigger) but i decided to do 90% of my guitars with this measures.

I dont have a "my model" thing in classical guitars, i just have some ideas that i follow but i do changes wen i believe that will improve that piece of wood.

My guitars (classical) are influenced in some other luthiers, well i believe that in our days is almost impossible not be.

like a traditional classical guitar i use 650mm for the scale, not only but this is the measure that is more loved by the guitarists, of course time to time some musician ask something different like a smaller hand i do smaller scale

i will move this to the made in uk , thak you for the advise

some question please ask
chears 

earwighoney

Lovely sounding guitar Jose, and a fantastic composition.  

How old is the guitar?  

jmcustomguitars

thank you earwighoney  

this is is first live show, the guitar was finished about the beginning of this year, i believe the sound will improve a lot in the next few months, well the guitarrist told me yesterday that it improved already a lot since this concert but i didn't listen yet after this