Jack Spira

Jack Spira graduated with a higher national diploma in Musical instrument Technology from London College of Furniture. he went on to establish Jack Spira Guitars in Australia in 1991. Jack nowlives and works in the Dandenong ranges in Gippsland east of Melbourne. The lush hills are thick with blackwoods, towering mountain ash, stringybark ash and small leafed peppermint gums. Here he produces around 10 instruments a year.

We currently have a Spira on order. Please Email us/phone for more details.

Jack's instruments feature: highest quality local and imported timbers throughout with a Lifetime Warranty. He uses 2 ply solid maple linings strengthen the sides, allowing a lighter, more responsive soundboard and decorates the guitar with unique handcrafted rosettes and pufling. All work is carried out in humidity controlled environment. Jack understands the needs of a working musician and hence offers cutaways at no extra cost!

John's prices start a very reasonable Austrian $2,500 his guitars, $1,600 for mandolins and $1,800 for bouzoukis. (Excluding shipping and applicable taxes.) Please contact us for more details. We currently have a Spira on order!

Jack offers his own models as well as the standard sizes such as OO or OOO as shown below:

The OO on the left sports Sheoak and the Blackwood Beauty on the right is a OOO.

 

Standard Models

No 1:

Modelled on a 1920’s Martin Ditson, this “Cigar Box” guitar is ideal for fingerstyle blues players looking for an authentic sound. Also a great travelling guitar.

Watch out! A mob of No.1 sized guitars in various top woods and fiddleback Australian Blackwood.

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No 2:

About the same size as a classical guitar, well suited to flatpicking and rhythm styles.

No.2 sized guitar in Rose Mahogany.

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No.3:

About the same size as a Dreadnought but with the classic hourglass shape, this is a fine all-round guitar

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No.4:

A generous big-bodied guitar with good separation, rich bottom end without boominess. An excellent guitar for the finger style player

A No. 4 twelve string with custom inlays. Fiddleback Australian Blackwood and Sitka spruce.

 

 

Jack specialises in handmade rosettes. As the pictures below will demonstrate, he's quite good at it!