The rose mosaic
Between the 1950s and 1960s, José Ramírez III, filled several notebooks of graph paper with various designs for the mosaics of his guitars. Some of them became famous and were copied by guitar makers, but not by artisan guitar makers, as the mosaics are, like the...
The 5-pointed star
It was 2011 when I had one of those existential crises that we all go through at some point in our lives. Searching for my passion Since I was a child I learned to love guitars, because I perceived day by day the love that my father felt for them. And although at the...
How did Marcelo Barbero learn his trade as a guitar maker?
Recently, we received an interview with Narciso Yepes in which the interviewer inserted a telephone intervention by my father, José Ramírez III, who was unable to attend in person, but whose intervention was succulent and instructive. In the interview, Yepes, probably...
Influence of varnishes on guitar sound
The period in which my father, José Ramírez III, dedicated the most time to experimentation was between the 50s and the 70s. And, of course, the period to investigate with the varnishes arrived. At that time, the finish that was used on guitars, traditionally, was...