GRIMES GUITARS. Steve Grimes has built Archtop and Double Sound hole Flatop guitars for some of the top players in the world. He specializes in custom tailoring his guitars to suit the tonal, aesthetic, and playability requirements of his customers. Since 1974 he has built instruments to a customer's specifications.

This Available Now gallery is an assortment of new and vintage Grimes instruments, dating from my first instrument – a mandolin – in 1974, to several instruments from 2019 and 2020. For more information on an instrument, please inquire.

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This guitar has a German Spruce top and spectacularly beautiful Brazilian Rosewood Sides and Back. The detail of the Rosewood is incredible (I paid a $4000 premium for the "highly figured" sides and back set)...

Grimes Guitars, Inc. 3,716 likes. Since 1974 Steve Grimes has built instruments to a customer's specifications. Now in 2020, Steve is

Grimes estimates that he produces about 20 guitars a year (half of them are archtops, and half of them are double soundhole flattops in steel or nylon configurations). Customers have choices on size, woods used, color of finish, inlay work, electronic packages, and the neck profile.

The Kula Rose is described by Steve Grimes as having " a well defined ringing tone rarely found in an archtop guitar. It is a versatile performing guitar with a powerful projection and clear voice making it an excellent guitar for both concert and studio work."

Grimes Guitars is a relatively small shop producing instruments slowly and meticulously by hand. Close attention to detail, such as tuning top and back plates, often missing in production guitars, is fundamental in each instrument.

Steve Grimes has built Archtop and Double Sound hole Flatop guitars for some of the top players in the world. He specializes in custom tailoring his guitars to suit the tonal, aesthetic, and playability requirements of his customers.

2011年9月20日 · As a woodworker and working musician, Steve Grimes was fascinated by the prospect of combining the two professions and began building guitars in the early ’70s. Now with almost 40 years of building high-end archtops, flattops, mandolins, and ukes, Grimes has amassed an impressive client list which includes such luminaries as George Benson ...