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
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
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