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The red cedar top has revolutionised guitar making around the world, thanks to its sound quality and stability. But how did it become so iconic in the guitar-making universe? To answer this question, we must go back to 1963, when José Ramírez III, master guitar maker...
Between the 1950s and the 1970s, my father, José Ramírez III, bought large quantities of wood in logs and, very especially, of Brazilian rosewood, which, when cut, was selected from among the first (1st) quality cuts and those that, for not complying with the...
Learn more about Ramirez Guitars through its historic workshop, where the tradition of craftsmanship has been passed down through generations. Since its foundation, Ramírez guitars have been used by the best guitarists in the world, and within this workshop, each...
On some labels and stamps of my great-grandfather José Ramírez I and my great-granduncle Manuel Ramírez, the name of guitar factory appears. This makes sense if we take into account that the word factory comes from the latin factory, which means art or craft, artisan...
Together with her brother José Ramírez, Amalia Ramírez formed the fourth generation of Ramírez Guitars. However, when José passed away, she took over the business, both in marketing and in the construction of guitars. Nowadays, the V generation has also come into...
Mark Knopfler, member of the iconic British rock band Dire Straits, is auctioning more than 120 guitars and amplifiers from his collection on 31 January in London. Among all the items up for auction will be a handmade Ramirez Guitar. Mark Knopfler Auction Throughout...
At Guitarras Ramírez we are always committed to innovation and the incorporation of new features in our guitars, constantly seeking to improve the musical experience of guitarists. For this reason, we have worked together with LR baggs to include a new amplification...
At Guitarras Ramírez, we are always carrying out research and innovations to create guitars that adapt to the needs and requirements of guitarists. This is how the first Guitarras Ramírez handcrafted studio guitars were born. Read our article to learn about the...
As many already know, the guitar headstock is like a signature, a sign of the guitar maker's identity, designed to be recognised without the need to see the label or any other identifying marks. So, today we show you the evolution of Ramírez guitar headstocks. José...
One of the most important elements in the construction of guitars is the finish. Therefore, today we explain which ones we use in our workshop to end Ramírez guitars. Natural, semi-synthetic and synthetic varnishes. In Ramírez Guitars we have used different types of...
I often hear comments saying that the guitars from the 60's and 70's are better than today's. The answer is simple and logical, and it is also not without poetic components that must be valued. Fusion of guitarist, guitar maker and woodwind players If we refer to...
Since the word spread regarding Santos Hernández’s claim that he had been the creator of the Manuel Ramírez guitar that Manuel gave to Andrés Segovia (which is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art in New York) there has been a work of harassment...
At Ramírez Guitars we are going to tell you about the Peghead pegs, which imitate the wooden or stick pegs. This way, we keep the aesthetics, but we get the precision of a mechanical headmachine. Discover the characteristics of the Peghead pegs, which we have...
Guitars are made up of a set of pieces that, when placed strategically, produce a beautiful sound. So, today we talk about the importance of the headmachine of a guitar and we show you our Ramírez 36 mm headmachine. The importance of a guitar headmachine The...
Since José Ramírez I began our guitar career, we have contributed different designs to the guitar world, always seeking excellence and favouring guitarists' search for a sound that is to their satisfaction, which is quite a challenge, and we believe we have succeeded...
From the 40's to the end of the 80's, José Ramírez III was a key figure in the evolution of the Spanish Guitar, both flamenco and classical. Amalia Ramírez tells us about some of his most significant contributions. Inclination and size of the head of the guitar Among...
Andrés Segovia gave the classical guitar an instrumental hierarchy, collaborating closely with great composers and showing the different colours of sound that this instrument can provide. We leave you a part of the documentary "Andrés Segovia en la Casa de Los Olivos"...
When my great-grandfather, José Ramírez I, entered the workshop of his master, Francisco González, in the second half of the 19th century, the apprentices entered when they were still children and, according to custom, during their contract time they received food,...
Fretboard carving is a fundamental step in the construction of guitars. It determines whether the instrument is of good quality or not. Would you like to know what a fretboard carving consists of? Then, read our article, we will show you everything you need to know...
Written by Jesús Alonso Trigueros. Dr. Civil Engineer and Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The master guitar maker José Ramírez Martínez (1922 - 1995), known as José Ramírez III, created a guitar model based on golden ratios and magic numbers...
Our workshop has a great history and maintains the essence of its origins. That is why today we want to show you the structure of the Ramírez Guitars workshop. Would you like to know how our guitars are made? Stay and read our article, we will show you everything you...
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...
Changing the strings on your guitar is very important because the sound can be impaired as the strings wear out. It is therefore advisable to replace the strings before they break. Would you like to know how to change the strings of your guitar in a simple way? Stay...
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...
Given that my grandfather, José Ramírez II, was always rather uncommunicative, I can assure you that we have had very sketchy, not to say scarce, information about our family of guitar makers, in which there were - and still are - many gaps, information that partly...
There is no doubt that it is to Andrés Segovia that we owe the full diffusion of the Spanish guitar throughout the world, a task that he undertook and concluded with a Ramírez instrument in his hands. Following in his footsteps, a stream of concert guitarists kept the...
At the Festival International José Tomás Villa de Petrer 2015, our dear Amalia Ramírez was interviewed by the journalist Javier Suárez-Pajares. In this article, we are going to leave you the interview with some of the questions he asked her and the video with the full...
Today we are going to talk about the labels of the guitars handmade in our workshop, our Ramírez Labels. Until 1967 there was no real control of the labels, therefore, the dates will be approximate and surely there are some labels that are not reflected in this...
My great-great-grandfather Domingo Ramírez de Galarreta y Martínez de Abad was a multifaceted man: he was a landowner, horse breeder, builder, master carpenter... He had six children, three of them boys: José, Antonio and Manuel, and all three chose the trade of...
In today's article, our colleague Isaac Álvarez is going to talk about some of the amplification systems we have available for our range of studio guitars. Arturo Lledó, an excellent guitarist and composer and a great friend of Ramírez Guitars, is also with us to...
Many years ago, I had a strange dream in which, to make a long story short, Rank Xerox's daughter had to take care of certain matters relating to her father. Of course, at the time, it did not occur to me that the trademark of a photocopier could be related to the...
In this article, Cristina Ramírez and Adrián Baratech will tell us the differences between a spruce or cedar top guitar. Do you want to discover them? Keep reading 😉 What is the difference between a guitar with a cedar top and one with a spruce top? For this purpose,...
At the end of the 19th century, Luis and Simón Ramírez printed a series of phonographic cylinders with the guitar and the bandurria as protagonists. Of José Simón Ramírez de Galarreta y Pernías 'José Ramírez II' (1885-1957) and Luis Ramírez de Galarreta y Pernías...
The association of the "noble art of violeros, guitar makers and all kinds of stringed instruments" was founded in Madrid in 1761 by the violero Julián Fornieles and Lorenzo Alonso, and is the origin of the so-called Escuela de Madrid de Constructores de Guitarras. ...
As a centenary company, we have inherited from previous generations wood that we have stored since the 1950s. In the construction of our handmade instruments we use wood that have had a natural drying, since this provides stability to changes in humidity and the...
I have already commented on some occasion that it was very common that the finishing of guitars, which was traditionally done with shellac before the appearance of synthetic varnishes, was carried out by skilled women, and that in some cases it would be the wives of...