Hand-Voicing | Bourgeois Guitars

Dana Bourgeois explains his approach to voicing guitar tops.

Meticulous attention to the construction of each individual instrument is one of the advantages that smaller makers are able to offer. In his five decades of building guitars, Dana Bourgeois has developed a process for hand voicing the tops of his instruments, and in this video, shot at the Bourgeois Guitars shop in Lewiston, Maine, he discusses and demonstrates the procedure.

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