Darren Hippner Torres Classical Guitar #1081 2021 natural - gloss

Darren Hippner Torres Model

Built in Washington State on 2021, Number 1081 Purchased directly from the Luthier.

Pristine condition.  New strings. 

This is a handmade, luthier-built Torres replica.  

Features all solid premium woods: German spruce top, Birdseye maple body, Spanish cedar neck. The finish is spray-on nitro lacquer, applied lightly: 3 top coats and 5 body coats.

Scale length 650 mm, nut 50 mm. Action is 3 mm on the bass at the 12th fret and 2 mm on the treble 12th fret. Rubner tuners 

The tone is rich, sweet, and polished with great clarity and projection.  Best deal on a custom Torres that you can find. A new hard case is included in the price.   

About the luthier.

Darren Hippner has been a professional luthier building guitars full-time since 1994.

He handcrafts all of his instruments himself, using basic woodshop machinery and hand tools. By working alone, he has total control over every phase of building and can produce more consistently fine musical instruments. He maximizes the potential of each piece of wood by voicing the wood and shaping the thickness graduations individually using touch, feel & tap tones, the same way old master Italian violin luthiers and master Spanish guitar luthiers worked.

Darren's guitars are owned worldwide.   A prolific builder with a very strong work ethic, he continues to learn and perfect his techniques always striving to make better instruments.  He lives in Point Roberts, Washington.  A very small island peninsula off the North West coast of Washington State and bordering Canada.  It's a very quiet and isolated location that affords him the opportunity to focus entirely on his craft of building guitars

Please notice this is a hand-made instrument, so there might be very minor imperfections in the finish purflings, that I tried to capture in the pics. If you are looking for the "perfect" finish, this might not be the right guitar for you. According to Darren, the most important thing about a guitar is the sound and the beauty of the wood and the construction.