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Post subject: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:08 am
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Hey guys,

Just got an email from Vincent Guidroz, owner, New Orleans Guitar Co., inviting me to tour their workshop when I am in New Orleans later this month for JazzFest.

Vincent is an amazing luthier and I'm really excited to meet him, see their shop and tryout one of their premium guitars.

This might actually be dangerous because I don't need to be gassing over custom made high-end guitars.

Plan on taking lots of pics which I'll share with you when I return.

Meanwhile, enjoy the Porn 8)

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Read more about New Orleans Guitar Co. here: http://www.premierguitar.com/issue/feat ... rleans.asp

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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:57 pm
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Hey,
I just joined in here. Recently got a Fender Acoustasonic SFX amp, came to the site to download user manual. Registered here, found this forum, and post about the New Orleans JazzFest. I too will be down there for part of the jazzfest. Grew up in N.O. going back to visit my mom and siblings. Looking forward to JazzFest for the first time. It did not exist before I left home for the Air Force. Really looking forward to visiting The New Orleans Guitar Co. also, did not know about it till I saw this post!! Thanks.
THAT eye candy will be easy for me to enjoy visually with no worries of purchasing. No way it would fit my budget - LOL!


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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 5:21 pm
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MJarreau wrote:
Hey,
I just joined in here. Recently got a Fender Acoustasonic SFX amp, came to the site to download user manual. Registered here, found this forum, and post about the New Orleans JazzFest. I too will be down there for part of the jazzfest. Grew up in N.O. going back to visit my mom and siblings. Looking forward to JazzFest for the first time. It did not exist before I left home for the Air Force. Really looking forward to visiting The New Orleans Guitar Co. also, did not know about it till I saw this post!! Thanks.
THAT eye candy will be easy for me to enjoy visually with no worries of purchasing. No way it would fit my budget - LOL!


We've been coming down to JazzFest every year for the past 25 years. I too lived in NOLA during the '80s and it's almost like coming home.

Suggestion...

email the owner, Vince Guidroz @: noguitar@bellsouth.net, and let him know your intentions. Apparently, their workshop is a hangout for local NO musicians.

I told Vince who we are planning to see in Clubs while in NOLA, aside from JazzFest @ the Fairgrounds itself, and he replied: "...It sounds like you know how to enjoy yourselves while you're visiting N.O., and it appears that you've got a good agenda in mind for your stay, but you might want to allow yourselves some time to visit with us. This place is like a clubhouse sometimes for artists and musicians, many of whom you've mentioned in your response... .

Cheers!

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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:40 am
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Thanks much for the note! I'll send that email.
Left home in '69 to join the Air Force and 'see the world'. Retired now after a WONDERFUL LIFE of learning, sampling culture across the U.S. and enjoying people, places and music. Now in lovely warm Arizona, I'm close enough that I need to make the trip to visit home. My brother-in-law has been involved with JazzFest since it's beginning though he isn't a musician himself. Just loves good music. He is planning the events I'll experience but I will certainly try to visit the New Orleans Guitar Co. I've played off and since the 70s. Now that my time is my own I am REALLY serious about my vocals and guitar.

Enjoy your trip. Maybe we'll cross paths while down 'home' :o)


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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:03 am
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Lightnin MN wrote:
I don't need to be gassing over custom made high-end guitars.

Hello Lightnin: you have completely lost me. I don't understand that sentence at all.

No matter: I'm grateful to you for bringing this piece of burr front-wood to my attention. I shall be happily gassing over this for the rest of the day - thank you! :D

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cheers!


And cheers to you too - 8)

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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:19 pm
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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:33 pm
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Lightnin MN wrote:
Ceri wrote:
Lightnin MN wrote:
I don't need to be gassing over custom made high-end guitars.

Hello Lightnin: you have completely lost me. I don't understand that sentence at all.

No matter: I'm grateful to you for bringing this piece of burr front-wood to my attention. I shall be happily gassing over this for the rest of the day - thank you! :D

Lightnin MN wrote:
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cheers!


And cheers to you too - 8)


Ceri,

Yea... isn't it absolutely gorgeous !!

I LOVE Vince's guitars... one small problem though... I can't yet play the guitar...

That's why I cannot, at least at this point, justify gassing over a $3800-$5600 Guitar.

But when the heavens combine to have my Ship come in simultaneously with my ability to play... look out... I'm gonna have Vince make me a Git !!

So far as the burl front wood is concerned, Vince actually harvests a lot of his own wood.

New Orleans is situated literally only minutes from the swamps and bayous of southern Louisiana. At the turn of the last century, there were major logging operations in the area, clearing old growth trees.

Typical of most commerical logging operations, their sites get abandoned, leaving behind lots of logs which were deemed unfit (often because they were burled, etc.), or fell off the trucks, or sank in the mud, etc.

Once a month, Vince and some of the guys from the shop take an airboat into the swamps to these old sites and reclaim the swamp ash and cypress logs left behind. They cut them down to manageable size on-site and haul them back to NOLA, where they undergo a stabilization process before being further cut down for instrument stock. As I said, many of these logs were harvested more than 100 years ago, and are just now being put to use.

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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 12:00 am
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MJarreau wrote:
Thanks much for the note! I'll send that email.
Left home in '69 to join the Air Force and 'see the world'. Retired now after a WONDERFUL LIFE of learning, sampling culture across the U.S. and enjoying people, places and music. Now in lovely warm Arizona, I'm close enough that I need to make the trip to visit home. My brother-in-law has been involved with JazzFest since it's beginning though he isn't a musician himself. Just loves good music. He is planning the events I'll experience but I will certainly try to visit the New Orleans Guitar Co. I've played off and since the 70s. Now that my time is my own I am REALLY serious about my vocals and guitar.

Enjoy your trip. Maybe we'll cross paths while down 'home' :o)


Hey... I'm NAVY Air - Phantom driver... but it's all cool...

We'll be in town 4/19-5/3, shoot me an email if you wanna hook up.

Can't make any promises, but if it works, it works...

cheers!

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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:28 pm
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It just does not turn me on. I am sure its a wonderful product but.....

From time to time I look at some of the guitar magazines and there are a plethora of custom guitar companies. I have not seen anything out there that draws me away.

I am happy with my Fender Stratocasters and my homemade custom Stratocaster clones. Nothing feels better.

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Post subject: Re: Touring the New Orleans Guitar Co.
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:01 pm
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oneal lane wrote:
It just does not turn me on. I am sure its a wonderful product but.....

From time to time I look at some of the guitar magazines and there are a plethora of custom guitar companies. I have not seen anything out there that draws me away.

I am happy with my Fender Stratocasters and my homemade custom Stratocaster clones. Nothing feels better.


Hey that's cool...

Just remember, it's not a contest...

I won't likely ever get rid of my Strat... nor will I ever likely own one of Vince's guitars (couldn't justify the cost at my age and stage of development).

That doesn't mean I don't appreciate them, or that I'm not glad there are guys like Vince out there pushing the 'envelope'.

Plus, I'm an engineer by training. Anytime I get to learn how something is designed & built, I'm there. That's what probably drew me to the field in the first place.

cheers!

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