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Dreams Really Do Come True
Customers may choose from a variety of classic as well as special and unusual tone woods to shape the body, neck, and fingerboard of their own one-of-a-kind guitar. Gordon also regularly accommodates special requests for build specifications and material choices to suit the requirements and preferences of his customers.
I'm only playing this guitar from now on.
Kenny Wheels
I have owned and played custom steel-string guitars since 1976. Last year Gordon built a custom mesquite and Adirondack 14 fret OM for me. I can honestly say that this Groves guitar continually provides endless hours of pure playing pleasure. The sound is exquisite, the fret board ease and respond naive. And when I'm not playing it the guitar provides almost equal pleasure as a pure work of the finest luthiers art just to look at: an exceedingly satisfying investment on every level.
Tom Pew
Gordon has built me an extraordinary rosewood dreadnaught, an equally extraordinary mesquite OM, and a dazzling koa 00 - 12 with ridiculously beautiful abalone inlay. Each is an exceptional work of the luthier's art, but most importantly each plays exquisitely. Their voices are far beyond what anyone might expect of each size/style. Beautiful tone and astonishing projection. I keep promising my wife I'm finished buying guitars, but......
Peter Voris
WORLD CLASS GUITARS
Electric Guitars:
Classic styling and modern playability with custom options. Gordon is the creator of the Ultralight Electric, the lightest guitar available on the market. This instrument surpasses the gold standard and is designed to increase performance ability and duration.
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Acoustic Guitars:
Gordon’s acoustic guitar building style is firmly rooted in the golden era of American steel string guitars, which has inspired his own innovative repertoire of craftsmanship resulting in a select line of visually stunning guitars with truly great playability. All instruments feature the finest red spruce bracing with expert hot hyde glue construction and nitrocellulose lacquer finish to guarantee superior tone quality.
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GORDON S. GROVES: LUTHIER
Gordon S. Groves is a well-respected professional luthier, and the business owner of Groves Guitars, LLC, which is based out of Tucson, Arizona, where he has built custom guitars and restored both rare and popular vintage instruments for customers from all across the United States for the past twenty eight years. His career began in 1990 after graduating first in his class from the renowned Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, where he is regularly invited as a guest lecturer.
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Gordon is the founder of the Southern Arizona Luthiers Guild, which helps talented professionals in the trade to connect. The guild also periodically showcases the instruments and products of its members to the public with the help of local business partners. Those interested in becoming members can contact Gordon by email to sign up for notifications about meetings and events.
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3790 E 44th St, Unit 260
Tucson, Pima County 85713
USA
520 289 7043