Acoustic Magazine 107 Back Issue

People will always question value for money. It means something different to each and every one of use. It a £10k guitar two times better than a £5 guitar? I’m not sure that’s the right way to look at it, but luthier-crafted guitars are valued for what they represent to not just the customer, but to the craftsman. To you and I, it may be the culmination of many years of yearning for that coveted objet d’art, but to the craftsman it represents a slice of his or her life. Stephen sets a fitting analogy over on page 44 as he reviews the Greenfield GF from The North American Guitar. Give the ordinary bloke in the street a kitchen full of the finest ingredients (read: tonewoods) and he won't necessarily produce a gourmet banquet.

The Greenfield GF was developed to address the need for a performance level, discreetly priced Greenfield Guitar. Production is limited and each GF is even though the GF is handcrafted in his Montréal workshop, he doesn’t label it as a custom order instrument. It is built with the same carefully selected materials, skilled craftsmanship and attention to detail he has built his reputation on, but the GF is fashioned with elegant, understated appointments and aims to deliver that legendary, piano-like Greenfield tone. Greenfield says that it “is perfect for the aficionado who appreciates a performance-level, luthier-built instrument without the more ornate appointments and complex options available on my other models.”