Guitardon
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Based on the number of ‘murphy’ aged guitars released in a year there is no way he can physically age them all himself, he must have a team with him and is supervising them, and then he just does the finishing touches. You can’t have several ‘1 of only 150 Tom Murphy’ and again ‘1 of 50 CCs Tom Murphy’ and dozens of custom orders all in 1 year. It implies when you add them up he’s working on a guitar every single day of the year and has to do it all in a day. Not possible
True but I’m sure Orville Gibson had a crew working for him but the guitars they made were still called Gibson. I would agree TM can’t do all of them alone, but I bet he keeps a close eye to make sure each one is done to exacting specifications, it doesn’t bother me at all. The cert has his name on it and that simply adds value.
I own both a Murphy aged and a Murphy painted. My only criticism is on my aged one is only the top is aged, the back isn’t. Don’t know if it was intentional or it was missed in the final inspection. Really doesn’t matter to me. As far as the Murphy painted one, I bought it cause I love the color of the original bursts he painted in the 90’s. The new 90’s bursts painted by TM are spot on as far as the color. Weather he actually paints them, he got the color right and my guess is that he overseas the entire process. Plus almost everyone I see is 8lbs4oz. Nice and light, I would guess he requests them to be on the lighter side.