So by now most of you know that I’ve shot just about all the pix for my friends at Froggy Bottom Guitars for about the past 12 years or so. You might be excused if you thought it get a little rote after a while, but you’d be wrong. Each and every guitar that comes out of the shop is a genuine masterpiece, but unlike many examples of fine art that are designed only to be admired, we get to play Froggys. So not only do we have something visually stunning, we get the added pleasure of sonic excellence. As one Grammy Award winning guitarist asked recently after playing a guitar built for one lucky player: “Does she know what she has here?”
Which brings us around to the latest example of guitarmaking excellence: the Tom Humphreys Guitar. Tom was a well respected and innovative guitar maker who died unexpectedly at the age of 59. And so, in a style not at all atypical, the Froggy crew built a one-off masterpiece with the intention of donating the proceeds from its sale to Tom’s wife and children. For more, check out the Froggy Bottom site. Read Tom’s obit in the NY Times here. And here’s the Humphrey…
