The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120615   Message #2625164
Posted By: Dan Schatz
06-May-09 - 12:12 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Recommended Luthiers
Subject: RE: Tech: Recommended Luthiers
Glad I could help, Astro. I had an old Seagull guitar I had bought when I was in high school that I basically felt I'd outgrown, so I gave it to some friends as a wedding present. When I visited them a few years ago, the action was so high as to be almost unplayable.

This past January, I borrowed the guitar for my gig in California, and suggested my friend take it to Gryphon for a setup. When I arrived and tried the guitar out, it was like night and day. They action was excellent, the trimming they did on the saddle had opened up the sound remarkably, and the instrument sounded more like a good D-18 Martin than a $300 Seagull.

I played it and ogled it so much that my friend finally had to tell me "Stop drooling, because you can't have it back."

So yes, I would enthusiastically recommend Gryphon.

Dan