1955 MANUEL DE LA CHICA SIGNED - French Polish

655mm scale 52mm nut. Fine to Medium Spruce Soundboard. Brazilian Rosewood back and sides. 7 Fan Braces. All Original French Polish on the back and sides, French Polish touchup on the top.

This weighs: 1,454.7 grams = 50.68 ozs. = 3 lbs. 2 3/4 ozs.

The tap guard has been removed, it was installed by Manuel himself, with no varnish underneath, the area has been French Polished for the first time.

1 old repaired crack next to the bass side of the fingerboard. 1 spline in the center seam of the top, above and below the bridge. 1 old repaired crack on the back on the treble lower bout.

Manuel de la Chica Garcia trained as a cabinet maker (ebanista), becoming a guitar maker afterwards. it's well known that cabinet makers turn out to be very good guitar makers. Below is the list of those guitar makers who began as cabinet makers.

Those would include: 
Antonio de Torres Jurado
Vicente Arias
Miguel Rodriguez
Francisco Simplicio
Manuel de la Chica
Daniel Friederich
Paco Santiago Marin
Jose Romanillos
Josep Farre
Miguel González Abad 
Paco Rey
Manuel López Bellido
Ignacio Fleta
Francisco Montero Aguilera 
Juan Montero Aguilera 
Manuel Fernández Fernández 
Manuel Martínez de Milán 
José Serratosa Blanch
Sergio Valverde Castillo
Manuel Dominguez
Jose Velasco
Dietmar Heubner
Julian Mario Rabaza
Ignacio Rozas
Marcelino Lopez Nieto
L. Arostegui Granados