In 1955, Manuel Rodríguez II set up his own workshop. This was an evolution that made Manuel Rodríguez II’s name more widely known than his father’s – who only manufactured instruments for workshops and never signed any of them. The first guitar signed and labeled by Manuel Rodríguez II was a flamenco guitar. He also produced a great amount of capos for the then popular flamenco musicians. This enabled him to manufacture his first guitars, bandurrias and lutes. He used it to fix instruments belonging to some of his amateur musician friends. On March 4th, 1954, shortly after joining the Ramirez workshop, Manuel Rodríguez II installed a workbench in his own house. Manuel Rodríguez II undertook the task of handcrafting the inner parts of bandurrias, lutes and guitars, manufacturing sticks and bracings and also carrying out bel labrado (carving). The workshop included a young Manuel Rodríguez II - who was just 13 years old at the time - as an apprentice. Soon after, Ramírez II called Marcelo and Manuel Rodríguez I to resume the activities in the Ramírez workshop. In 1939, the Rodríguez family returned to Madrid. After leaving the shop in 1930, Manuel went on to work with other famed luthiers (Santos Borreguero, Saturnino Rojas) and also handcrafted his own instruments on a special order basis. After Manuel’s return to Spain in 1914, he joined the workshop of José Ramírez I. Manuel Rodríguez Pérez then worked at Julián Gómez’s workshop and remained there until 1914 when World War I broke out. At that time, Julián Gómez Ramírez (who would later become the first skilled worker of José Ramírez guitars) worked there as well. He was an apprentice in Agustín de Andrés’ workshop.
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The career of Manuel Rodríguez Pérez as a professional guitar-maker started back in 1905 when he was just 18 years old. It is held in the hands and close to the body it is an art piece of precious natural materials built to the luthier’s taste and woodworking skills it is your trade, personality, and dignity in doing a good job.” - Manuel Rodríguez Jr. We are therefore talking about an art piece that has a life of its own, produces elegant sound, and provides the guitarist with their own one-of-a-kind instrument to express their musical skill and harmonic knowledge. It is like a feather a purfling that will never be repeated as far as color, thickness and taste are concern. It is even more so when each artist constructs his guitar by creating exclusive ornamentation, using precious and unique woods, creating a mosaic, which distinguishes this soundhole from all the other soundholes. “If that which cannot be repeated is art, then our guitars are also an artistic instrument. ensures each guitar is a work of art to be treasured for generations. Embodying the skills he learned as an apprentice to the master luthiers of Spain, Manuel Jr. Each instrument is as unique and individual as the musicians who play them. Using only the finest tonewoods and expert craftsmanship, Manuel Rodríguez develops distinctive guitars fit for the world’s preeminent artists. His son, Manuel Jr, continues on with the family tradition of crafting exquisite instruments with the fire and passion he learned from his heritage. He and his son moved back to Madrid in 1973 where Rodríguez guitars have been designed and built ever since. opened a shop Los Angeles, making classical guitars for a myriad of professional players, teachers, students, and even the Hollywood elite. His apprenticeship began at the age of 13 in Madrid, where he also began exporting his finely crafted instruments to France, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. Manuel Rodríguez - grandson of flamenco guitarist Manuel Rodriguez Perez Marequi and son of classical luthier Manuel Rodríguez Perez - learned the art of constructing a guitar firsthand. The history of Rodríguez guitars is as rich as the wood from which they are crafted.
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