Mike Collins Lutz Top and Curly Maple Acoustic Guitar

Our Mission Statement:
Luthier's Pride, LLC was started in 2003 to band together and support both working musicians and advanced music students with Luthiers for the benefit of both.  
Not a store, but a group of music lovers that realize that there's a synergy that is created when these two groups of artists work together. This is not a new concept, as we all have heard of Stratovaris and know of the impact his art has on performance even today.
As a group we have provided concerts and master-classes in both guitar performance and luthierie, produced and promoted videos and donated musical instruments to charities for their fund raising. Luthier's Pride has provided music students instruments and other related materials through the "music in the schools" programs as well as some nominal priced sales to advanced students.
We support the arts with the funds that are raised including the sale of these items. We have not to date received any grants or subsidies, although we continue to move toward our goal of 501c3 status as a tax exempt group and remain hopeful that we will achieve this goal. We have no paid employees and continue to volunteer both time and money for the love of the music.
We do have working relationships with dozens of luthiers and musicians, please visit our web site for more information. Feel free to contact anyone listed there as we highly recommend these professionals.  If you would like to explore the possibility of working together please contact me.
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Luthiers use their artistry to give wood a voice;
Musicians make it sing!

Professional /used for DEMO and in studio!             

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"For the first time since I got the Lutz guitar, tonight I heard it played by
a very good player. Wow.

He was, as we say, "blown-away". He could not believe that it was just a few
months old. He loved the action, the tone and the power.

It was such a pleasure to hear the guitar. He questioned - "what in the
world would I want more in a guitar???" After hearing him play, I said,
"frankly, I don't know".

This Email was forwarded to me from a client who was a very experienced former employee for a major guitar company. Although this is mostly due to great talent by the builder Our Lutz spruce product is the top wood for this instrument. I have also just received very similar praise from Robert Ruck and one of his master Spanish/Classical, players / clients using a Lutz Curlybear topped Guitar. Keep in mind that these are master builders and when offering a choice of top wood they offer the lutz spruce. (Ed Note)

http://www.collinsguitars.com/testimonials.html

Pat Karwan plays this guitar in two sound clips here:

Hear it Now!   http://www.luthierspride.com/collins2007cl4st.html

 

This Guitar was displayed at  the World's Largest Hand-Crafted Guitar Show, Newport/Miami April 2008 

http://www.newportguitarfestivalmiamibeach.com/index.html

The buyer will get the full Collins Guitar Warrantee. 

Built in 2007 /Displayed in 2008

2007
Steel String
Colorado Curly Maple with a Canadian Lutz top!
All master grade!
Cocobolo rosewood bindings!
Ambrosia Maple Rosette
Ebony fingerboard,
Brazilian bridge.
E to E- 57mm
scale length is 25.4 inches (same as Martin)
Mahogany neck
Ebony headstock veneer with
flower inlay of Abalone & mother of pearl.
Gold Grover minituners!
Sound port to help player hear the guitar better when playing.

Michael Collins is a builder of High Quality Classic Style guitars in Argile, NY.

This guitar is Overall 39" long, Upper-b. is 4" deep 11" across the widest front. Lower-b. is 4.25 14" across the front.

Scale is 25.5" nut is 1.75"

Let me know if you need anymore info. This guitar was built in 2007 and displayed at the Montreal Guitar show 2008.

It is MSRP $7,000+ and has been recorded in the studio but never sold

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Please understand that these are one of a kind "unique" items and we do reserve the right to display and advertise them both Retail and on the Net in various locations. There are times when we must end an auction early as the item may have been sold at a different listing or display.  Please feel free to contact us to confirm the availability of any item or for any special requests that you may require. We confirm the availability of each item before we invoice any wining offer or bid.