Face to Face
Doreen Porter talks to Godefroy Maruejouls, guitar maker
1 How did you start your career ?/Where
did you learn you trade ?
I started my career as
a professional guitar maker in 2001 when I started working for Dave King making
acoustic guitars, after doing a four-year course in guitar making at London
Guildhall University. Whilst I was studying I also worked part time at Hanks Guitar
Shop in London’s well-known Denmark Street. Later I worked for Bernie
Gooodfellow in Brighton making electric basses before setting up my own
workshop in Limehouse, East London in 2005.
What do you enjoy the most?
I generally really
enjoy all parts of my job but if I were to think of an aspect of it that makes
me feel really happy about what I do, I’d say it’s when I spray the first coat
of lacquer on a guitar. That’s when the beauty of the wood really comes out and
the splendour of the guitar is revealed. The spraying of that first coat that
gives the ‘wet look’ to the wood is to me nearly magical.
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