Acoustic Guitar Player

In the early 1990’s the Acoustic Guitar Magazine had some wonderful articles about the Golden Age of Hand Made Guitars, which is now.  What the magazine articles covered was the emergence of the small luthiery shop and the ability of the makers to turn out prestige instruments and to compete with, if not blow away the big guys.  One of the guitar makers that they covered was William (Grit) Laskin a Canadian Luthier and guitarplayer from Ontario.  Grit’s guitars are fine instruments and are eye catching because its inlay. To check out some of his beautiful instruments have a look at his site at William Laskin.

 The image below features an inlay of the great jazz guitar player Django Rheinhardt and legendary violinist Stephane Grapelli.