My wife and I are in Seattle at the moment for a weekend without the kid. So.... I thought I would go check out Micheal Gurian's shop which is on a barge in the North Seattle harbour. Very cool. On entering, there was a very strong smell of rosewood. Material everywhere. The first person I saw was running a laser, cutting out headstock veneers for Tacoma guitars. He told me to head upstairs to talk with someone about purchasing.
So I did, and went through their stash of "specials" and picked out a bunch of binding and purfling. Than this older fellow comes upstairs, and it's Micheal. I introduce myself and he invites me for a tour of the shop. So he shows me the laser area, the 3 cnc lathes where they make their bridge and end pins, planer and sander area. The lathes are very cool, oh, they also make all their own dowelling as well, all the ebony you could think of, huge crates in the basement full of ebony, just waiting for milling.
Was very cool, and Micheal was very friendly. These guys make and sell so much stuff. All for some big customers, Martin, Tacoma, Larrivee to name a few.
Don't know how many of you buy from Gurian but they have a great site and of course great product. Micheal said that they supply all of the main luthier suppliers, LMI, Stew-mac, Allied.
Check it out,
Gurian Instruments
Well that's it.
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