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• jero Michiana✭✭✭✭ J.P. Favino, Godefroy Maruejouls

  January 2019 Posts: 63

  No affiliation with the seller. Just a note to say that Godefroy's guitars are fantastic, beautifully made, and rarely available (he seems to be mostly making electric guitars and flattops these days).
• willballard Northampton, UKNew Ger Boonstra, Leo Eimers, Aylward, Mac10

  January 2019 Posts: 7

  Does anyone else out there have a guitar with Cypress back and sides?
  I think this is the first one I've come across. Can anyone give me the pros and cons? Cheers
• crookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole

  January 2019 Posts: 921

  I believe Cypress is a common back and sides wood for flamenco guitars but unusual for a gypsy guitar. I imagine it would give a snappy, bright, percussive nature - but I could be talking nonsense there.

  always learning
• CyrilGaffiero New

  January 2019 Posts: 16

  I have used cypres on a few guitars, oval hole and f-hole. Works realy good, all the guitars sound loud and bright. I don't use this wood a lot because it's more difficult to sell, like all unusual woods. But guitarists must get used to having other woods than rosewood for guitar bodies, as it is more restricted now with CITES. Cypress is a very good alternative. I know Godefroy personnaly, he is a very skilled luthier, no doubt this is a great guitar
  
• willballard Northampton, UKNew Ger Boonstra, Leo Eimers, Aylward, Mac10

  January 2019 Posts: 7

  Thanks Cyril, food for thought
• Jojo London UK✭

  January 2019 Posts: 190

  well, it went for £1,121.00 which I presume is a good deal?
• crookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole

  January 2019 Posts: 921

  I bought the guitar and I think £1121 was a bargain price. I sat and watched the time run down and was surprised that nobody tried to sneak a higher bid in at the last minute. Of course there is always a chance that it will turn out not to be as good as I hoped but I think it's worth the risk given all the positive comments on here about the maker.

  

  always learning
• wim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica

  January 2019 Posts: 1,457

  That is an absolute steal for a Godefroy Maruejouls instrument.
• crookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole

  January 2019 edited January 2019 Posts: 921

  I'm sure it is Wim.

  always learning
• Jojo London UK✭

  January 2019 Posts: 190

  I was supposed to watch the end of the auction, expecting the same CrookedPinky, but forgot. Just out of interest, is it wise to have it sent or would you pick it up, given the estimated value of the instrument? (A 500 mile round trip is a lot, mind, maybe not to North American viewers though...)