Welcome to my Godin Guitars blog! Let me first tell you a bit about me and why I’m writing this blog.
I am a professional guitarist and teacher from Walnut Creek, Ca. Walnut Creek is a city approximately 15 miles east of San Francisco. I’ve run a successful downtown teaching studio for the last 15 years and have now expanded my business to include a by-appointment showroom for Godin and Seagull Guitars, both based in Montreal, Canada.
I found out about Godin Guitars about five years ago when I was in the market to purchase a jazz guitar for myself. I had decided that I was going to buy my guitar of a lifetime and ordered a L4 from Gibson’s custom shop. The list price was about $6000. but I got a good price and was thrilled and anxious for the guitar to be delivered. As I recall, it took 4-6 months to arrive.
I opened the case and the guitar was stunning, absolutely beautiful. It looked like the ultimate jazz box, in the classic Gibson sunburst. This was the guitar that I had been waiting decades for, perfect! I took it out of it’s case, prepared to spend the entire evening playing this beauty.
And then I played it, but something was wrong. What was that vibration I kept hearing. Could something be rattling inside my custom Gibson jazz box? And is it really possible that the intonation is as far off as I think it is? And the tone, it’s just not that good. Well, you get the point, it wasn’t a very inspiring guitar, it wasn’t even a good guitar.
Luckily, I was able to return the guitar. This started me on a quest to find a great guitar, regardless of price. That’s the next part of this story, what I ended up finding.
