Casa Montalvo Guitar (Information)

"Casa Montalvo" guitars are finely crafted beautiful sounding instruments featuring solid Engelmann Spruce or Canadian Red Cedar tops, Mahogany or Spanish Cedar necks and Rosewood or Ebony fingerboards. The necks are reinforced with a graphite stabilizing bar. The backs and sides are made of solid Indian Rosewood, Honduras Rosewood, or Cypress. These woods are well seasoned, and the guitars are guaranteed for one year against defects in materials or workmanship. CASA MONTALVO guitars are award winning highly affordable instruments produced in Mexico for George Katechis Montalvo, a highly skilled master craftsman with experience in all aspects of tone production. He has been repairing and selling musical instruments for 40 years. He has studied silver and gold smithing, Renaissance and Baroque Woodwind construction . piano soundboard technology, and the properties of strings under tension. In 1990 he started the K&S guitar company, helping to design and produce the guitars that company sold. Since 1999 he has been on his own, working with many fine Mexican guitar makers, helping to design and produce Casa Montalvo and Superior guitars . He has established personal relationships with a number of Mexican makers, and is actively involved in the production of the guitars made for him in Mexico . He brought higher quality woods, glues, finishes, and most importantly, American builders and restorers to share their knowledge with the Mexican builders. All "CASA MONTALVO" and "SUPERIOR" guitars are painstakingly set up and final-inspected by George Montalvo at his shop in Berkeley, CA. "Casa Montalvo" guitars are the finest in the world for the money. They are hand made, and constructed of all solid woods that are air dried and aged before building. The nylon stringed guitars all have a graphite reinforcing bar in the neck, and have a nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Many professionals are using these instruments for performing as well as recording; John Scofield, Victor Tarassov, and David Lindley are the most notable. Many years have gone into the design and production of these guitars. This has resulted in affordable hand made guitars that are unsurpassed in their quality and craftsmanship