GZ-SS Guitar bouzouki in in European spruce and Malaysian blackwood

The guitar bouzouki is my most recent development on Sobell’s design from the late 1980s. This one, the GZ SS, revisits that Sobell soundboard with everything I’ve learned in the two decades since I left his workshop. Built for a client in the USA who cancelled two weeks before it was finished. Now it is for sale.

This video covers:

— What a guitar bouzouki is.
— Malaysian Blackwood, and why I laminate ebonies rather than leave them thin
— How the reflective back is built, and why it matters for projection
— Soundboard topography: what separates these instruments from everything else
— The bracing pattern: why an X-brace with three ladder braces suits 8 strings

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This gzouki was commissioned and paid for in full by a client in the USA who, two weeks before completion, decided to move in a different direction musically. It’s now for sale on his behalf.

If you’d like to own this instrument, contact me via the form at the foot of this page. I’ll send you a price including shipping to your country.

If you’d like to watch this gzouki being made, click below.