Have been on a trip to Sydney and Canberra for a couple of days this week to find some timber for the guitars.
Visited Gerard Gilet and looked through some of the timber and picked out a couple of pieces that should do the trick for some headplates and a couple of ebony fingerboards. In the past I have sourced my ebony boards and headplates from madinter in Spain, the quality has been great but the postage to Wagga has been so high that it would almost be cheaper to fly to spain and buy them and put them in a suitcase and take them back with me.
Visited Gladesville guitar factory which has some very nice classical guitars. Had a good chat with Rob about my guitars and will bring my next two non commisioned guitars up to Sydney - a double top and traditional. Living in Wagga is a long way from anywhere, so to have my guitars in a capital city where peole can play them would be great. Over the next few months I will be looking at other places in Australia and internationally as well to help distribute my guitars.
As I mentioned on my web site I am chasing that great sound produced by Julian Bream with a guitar that has the best aspects of Hauser and Romanillos guitars.