Elvis Presley Fans of Nashville
  • HOME
  • About Us & Contact Info
  • Elvis NEWS!!
  • Join Elvis Presley Fans of Nashville
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Elvis Event Calendar
  • Elvis & Memphis Links
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Graceland fence used to make a guitar

6/10/2013

 
Picture
A little bit of Graceland is inside Nashville's brand new Music City Center. It's world-class luthier Manuel Delgado's job to turn that bit into a guitar.

Delgado is teaming with Gabriel Hernandez of Blues Vintage Guitars, Inc. to produce a limited run of stringed instruments, crafted from the white-washed wood fence that used to border Elvis Presley's Graceland in Memphis.

The first instrument in that run is an electric guitar that Delgado built at his Delgado Guitars exhibit booth at CMA Music Festival. He accented the body and fingerboard with tortoiseshell binding, attaching gold hardware and inlaying the fingerboard with the numbers 3, 7, 6 and 4.

(Graceland is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis.)

At the Delgado booth (118, at the AT&T U-verse Fan Fair X), fans saw what a stringed instrument workshop looks like, and they could view the tools of a luthier's trade. They also viewed the guitar Delgado has dubbed "Memphis."

Anyone interested in owning this guitar or other Delgado instruments may, email Delgado atmanuel@delgadoguitars.com  or Hernandez at bluesvintageguitar@att.net .


source: The Tennessean


Comments are closed.
    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    July 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.