This guitar was bought by a German collector, and he considered it to be from the turn of the century 1900, even though it says "Frans Feilnreiter Wien 1833" on the label. When it was finished, I did a search for the name "Frans Feilnreiter" and it turned out that this builder died in 1866! This label does not look right…

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An interesting guitar has passed the room. Built by the wayward Englishman Norman Wood in 1977. Found an article about him in an English guitar magazine if I wrote about it in a previous blog post. At the beginning of the magazine there was a small text about him 🙂 Well. The guitar had some problems. The lid had a couple of cracks and the neck…

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