What's New

 

Watch and listen to Tim Reede Custom Guitars performed by Nolan James at the Montreal Guitar show 2010.

 

 

 

 

I am quoted in an article in the October 2010 Acoustic Guitar Magazine about the Sonic Sitka Project.

 

 

 

 

Read about my trip to the Montreal Guitar Show on guitarblogstar.com

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I am very pleased that my guitars are featured in a book by Michael Heatley called Guitar.

 

 

 

Promotional CD

The demo CD project is now finished. It features some great players including Mike Cramer, who has been a teacher for the National Guitar Workshop, Steve Kaul who has had a successful solo career as well as playing with the Brass Kings, Cooker John who has been a musical fixture since the early seventies, and Nolan James, if you haven't heard of Nolan yet you will soon. He is young and new and very talented.

 

 

I have been using D'Addario strings long before I began building guitars. Strings make a big difference to the sound of an instrument. D'Addario strings sound great. I am very pleased that I am now a partner with this fine company. You can learn more about how D'Addario is reducing their environmental footprint by clicking on the logo below.

 

 

 

Throughout history guitar makers have tried to understand why one guitar sounds good and another sounds great. A greater understanding of why will lead to more consistently great sounding instruments. Some experiments have been very helpful, like the Chladni mode patterns.

The Sonic Sitka Project involves many different kinds of guitars built by 87 different luthiers. I am one of the luthiers for this project. The guitars have various scale lengths, they have different woods and finishes. They will be kept in different parts of the country and they will be played in different ways. The one thing that all of these guitars have in common is that all of the sound boards are made from wood from the same part of the same tree.

Dennis Merrill will be sampling the sounds of these guitars over time and observing the audible changes. With this information we will be able to see if there is a consistent pattern, and we will learn something about how a guitars sound matures.

 

 

The Blue Electric Guitar

The first blue guitar collection was commissioned by Scott Chinery. Mr. Chinery was a famous guitar collector. He had purchased a guitar from James D'Aquisto. It was a blue Centura Deluxe and it was hailed as being a masterpiece. When James D'Aquisto died in 1995, Scott Chinery asked some of the best archtop builders in the world to make a blue archtop guitar as a tribute to James D'Aquisto and the blue Centura Deluxe. This became the Blue Guitar collection. The collection went on to be exhibited at the Smithsonian.

The second blue guitar collection was the brainchild of another famous guitar collector, Henry Lowenstein. It is a tribute to the late Scott Chinery and the first Blue Guitar collection. This latest collection features all electric guitars. My guitar is one of them. It was exhibited as a collection at the Newport Guitar festival in Florida in 2010.

 

 

Click this link to read the latest interview with Tim Reede by Custom Guitar Boutique.

 

 

Check out the audio interview with Tim Reede on the on-line magazine American Made Guitars.

 

 

 

The January/February 2008 issue of Marq Magazine features Tim Reede's Leopard electric guitar in an article comparing the virtues of a vintage Fender Telecaster with the virtues of a new custom made guitar by Tim Reede.