The Most Beautiful Guitar I’ve Ever Played

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Ive known Chris Alvarado since he started Driftwood Guitars in 2005, and over the last 20 years he's become one of the best acoustic guitar builders around today. This year at NAMM he brought his latest creation, a beautiful guitar who's top is made from a piece of 3,000 year old Sitka Spruce. This is definitely the most beautiful guitar I've ever played.
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Thanks to ‪@dylanadamsguitar‬ for hanging out and playing some slide.
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0:00 Intro
0:48 Chris Builds Beautiful Guitars
1:39 Meet Chris
2:14 Let's See The Guitar
3:25 3,000 Year Old Wood?
4:46 How Does He Do Inlay?
6:49 Let's Hear The Guitar
8:35 Dylan Plays The Driftwood
10:30 How To Voice An Acoustic Guitar
12:00 Dylan Plays Slide
15:05 Rhett Plays One last time

Пікірлер: 411

@RhettShull 4 ай бұрын

Go subscribe to @driftwoodguitars to see the latest 300 Year Old Guitar build!

@jeffcampbell6898 4 ай бұрын

I served in the USAF with Chris. He was a good dude and worked hard.

@WagesofGear 4 ай бұрын

@rhettshull its time for you to do a video on the tidal caster

@monkeysweeperguitar 4 ай бұрын

Way way way ahead of ya, buddy lol

@ianedmonds9191 4 ай бұрын

3000^

@eugeneweitzeljr4529 4 ай бұрын

It's interesting to see how R guitar building materials apply to different types of wood come from and effect the sound the guitar!!!

@monkeysweeperguitar 4 ай бұрын

Chris is a friggin’ wizard. His channel is exceedingly enjoyable.

@Sammywhat 4 ай бұрын

His hair gives his wizardry away.

@jgeraci1 4 ай бұрын

The fact that someone could craft such a beautiful instrument by hand blows my mind!

@rogersar86 4 ай бұрын

All I can say, is that I hope to one day put a driftwood guitar in my hands. At this point I can honestly say that there is no way i can play it to the degree in which this one was played. But as I continue my guitar journey, I hope to one day have the skill and appreciation to bring such beautiful sounds out of a beautifully handcrafted instrument like this.

@deaconfuse3850 4 ай бұрын

That guitar is beautiful and you have me hooked on Dylan Adams so it is great seeing him again.

@michaelgottlieb9083 4 ай бұрын

@DylanAdamsGuitar slide playing is killer....could almost put a tear in your eye... Thanks Rhett

@jasonremy1627 4 ай бұрын

NAMM Time is my favorite time of the year. All my favorite KZfaqrs show up with the best content.

@boomerdell 4 ай бұрын

I love everything about this. Rhett, Dylan, and Chris, each equally a passionate artist in their own right, in their own way. Great reminder of my own personal motto when it comes to making and enjoying music: play the music you love on the gear you love, and encourage everyone to do the same. That's it. Stay on that path and the pure joy of music creation stays wonderfully alive.

@JJ-nq3ll 4 ай бұрын

I grow up around acoustic guitars and that guitar sounds as it looks, Amazing! 🎸🎸

@mmiller6873 4 ай бұрын

Bro, just a beautiful piece of art. Glad you had a blast at NAMM Rhett. Keep up the great work :)

@dalejones4322 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful guitar. Glad to see Dylan giving it the slide test too. Great video guys

@BamaGuitar 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this for all to enjoy!

@carlmcgilton1120 4 ай бұрын

That is one of the most beautiful looking acoustics and the sound is glorious.

@gair1944 4 ай бұрын

Wow! Just WOW. That guitar sounds amazing and it seems so responsive and touch sensitive! Gorgeous of course. Love the sculpting, arm bevel, belly cut etc.

@birdsfabulous 4 ай бұрын

What a beutiful piece. Looks amazing...sounds amazing. The tone of that slide on it was crazy

@donboudreau9963 4 ай бұрын

Crazy good sound to that guitar. The builders' attention to that tuning detail takes it over the top!

@jobe7660 4 ай бұрын

Just beautiful work wow well done

@TheFeelButton 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful work!

@GuitarTabsDaily 4 ай бұрын

Such a beautiful guitar and great playing!! 😍🔥

@Pault3788 4 ай бұрын

That is some beautiful work,and it sounds MAGNIFICENT

@yfz450rider39 3 ай бұрын

The sustain and the warmth!! Drone notes just carry through. Also, will never get over how nice that top is.

@oyesuken 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely visually and audibly gorgeous! Killed me that Willin' was played on it...too cool.

@SLO4SpeedBump 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this great video. This guy is a "Master Class" builder who makes beautiful guitars that sound great.

@user-bk4vc3ys9o 4 ай бұрын

Guitar is FANTASTIC! Cool Job/ and playing. Thanks.

@tymeryder7264 4 ай бұрын

Love the video. The guitar is at another level. WOW!

@eddybarker5072 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful guitar and awesome playing guys!

@richardburkow3792 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning guitar!

@anonanon938 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful sound. Brilliant and bold.

@jonasjacobsen9702 4 ай бұрын

Crazy cool guitar! Sounds incredible ❤

@jerrodprevost9046 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful looking and sounding guitar!

@csayban 4 ай бұрын

A truly gorgeous guitar. Masterful work. True art.

@batholith51 4 ай бұрын

Beyonds words. Next level guitar building. Sweetest sounds I have ever heard. BTW the players were fun and inspirational. Articulate and nuanced full range acoustic Bliss. Love it.

@andrejgregoric1324 4 ай бұрын

dmn... it sounds magnificent. and it doesn't hurt that also Dylan plays some slide. And Willing to 😊

@carljuztine3328 4 ай бұрын

with all my honesty, this is the most pleasing, articulate, and sublime sounding guitar i have ever beard through my phone.

@ST-ku5ni 4 ай бұрын

What an amazing piece of craftsmanship. WOW!

@papotaino1516 4 ай бұрын

Beautifully crisp the sound is incredible 🎸💞

@stevemyers2092 4 ай бұрын

Useful artwork. Beautiful.

@user-qv6to2yh7i 4 ай бұрын

how articulate and emotional this guitar sounds is so pleasing, and yes, the dynamic range is as much as you would get from a cinema camera standpoint, in this case an Arri Alexa 35!

@davidtownsend3582 4 ай бұрын

Sounds amazing

@jordanaldrich 4 ай бұрын

What an incredible piece of art. Wow.

@jackmundo4043 4 ай бұрын

Very talented. Thank you.

@lowcountry1975 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely incredible . Just for the record Chris is a great dude . As amazing as person as he is a luthier which sets the bar pretty high . Unreal

@paulkennedy477 4 ай бұрын

'Out on the road, late last night'. I heard and saw a beautiful guitar. Wow!

@ChanceCooper125 4 ай бұрын

Wow I was not at all prepared for how amazing that sounds. Gorgeous.

@ShihanTomCallahan 4 ай бұрын

incredible sound !!

@bernardhossmoto 4 ай бұрын

Looks AND sounds great!

@MaartenAnna 4 ай бұрын

Wow on the looks. But WOOOOW on the sound, really warm sounds bruv!

@emmiejo1 4 ай бұрын

That is a stunning instrument, aesthetically and sonically!

@madamkirk 4 ай бұрын

This sounds phenomenal 😍

@elephantfootrisers 4 ай бұрын

Guitar sounds and looks amazing. Well done.

@jonmoreno9703 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful work brother.

@drew004jc 4 ай бұрын

I watched once with sound, and again without. That is one of the best looking pieces of craftsmanship/artwork ever

@marcterencemckenna8930 Ай бұрын

I saw the driftwood article on this guitar. Just beautiful.

@shane8056 4 ай бұрын

Simply beautiful I personally love your inlay work it gives the player a more personal relationship with the instrument but my favorite part is the bevel edges they look so natural and comfy to play nicely done ✅

@Noumenon4Idolatry 4 ай бұрын

Very cool. Love the inlays. ✌️

@baneverything5580 4 ай бұрын

Here in Louisiana I`ve found ancient logs uncovered by creek floods in the ripple hills of central Louisiana that are impact ripples from the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. I carved into one with a hatchet and the grain was stunning and looked redish/orange and varnished wet. AND...my hacking on the log disturbed a giant yellowjacket nest, so. We`ve also drilled into logs over 100 feet underground making water wells.

@allosaurusfragilis7782 4 ай бұрын

It's a wonder filled thought...but how on earth could we know that's what caused the ripples? Anyway, I don't want to be the buzz kill lol

@ShinyShinyBlack 4 ай бұрын

@@allosaurusfragilis7782 - not to be a buzz kill, but if you search "louisiana ripple hills" it's pretty easy to find out...

@CohenRautenkranz 4 ай бұрын

Louisiana was 100 feet under the sea at the time of the dinosaurs. The ripples associated with the Chicxulub impact are from the large sediment deposits pushed by the (unimaginably) enormous tsunamis that rolled back and forth through the area. However, they were inferred using large data-sets built by petroleum company exploration and are not visible above ground. "Ripple Hills" are likely a reference to the valley trains (fluvial deposits) that occurred during the late Pleistocene when the sea levels were much lower - this is common feature throughout the lower Mississippi River flood plain. It is easy to confuse the two as they sound rather similar, but they have very different.

@baneverything5580 4 ай бұрын

@@CohenRautenkranz That`s what researchers claim. I`ve always wondered how they formed and why we found very shallow sea shells in our gardens in the area and huge deposits of corral and black shark teeth in the sides of the hills. They found entire whale skeletons just north of my location in Columbia, La, and our creeks are full of sea fossils turned into very hard brown and light colored stones. There`s a lot of petrified palm wood in some areas and beautiful agates. There are some very strange landscape features here. I wish researchers cared enough to come here and see some of the things I`ve found and get samples of the ancient buried trees for tree ring data research and date the thick layers of tiny bones buried in the edges of rivers that are turning to opal. What caused these deposits? What caused the massive sand blows and cracks in the huge hills here? We may be in danger of massive earthquakes.

@baneverything5580 4 ай бұрын

@@CohenRautenkranz There are huge rolling hills here in central Louisiana and scientists claim they were caused by the shockwaves of the impact. When you go east the hills suddenly meet the Mississippi River flood plain and abruptly end. The hills are very steep there and the last several hills before the flood plain are very tall and steep. Driving up them I had to down shift in my truck because they were at about a 45-50 degrees angle. In the side of the last hill there are layers of white limestone and fossils where they cut into the hill making the road to Harrisonburg. The other side of the road is a completely flat plain. Alexandria put their radio tower in this hilly region because of its higher elevation.

@jonleslie9761 4 ай бұрын

Super cool seeing Dylan Adams on here!

@fxrparlour1061 4 ай бұрын

That sounds incredible!

@davidjonkassan 4 ай бұрын

unique content! thanks!

@user-qv6to2yh7i 4 ай бұрын

BEEEN WAITING FOR SOOOO LONG FOR RHETT TO MAKRR THIS KIND OF VIDEO

@trapperted5083 4 ай бұрын

that is probably the best voicing that I have ever heard on such a beautiful guitar as you said you have to give here to get there imho you got it everywhere master builder, master players, and master listener what a combo lol thank you for sharing

@cef-ym3gb 4 ай бұрын

This is where art meets art. Wonderful 🌞❤️👍

@sgtfubar6064 4 ай бұрын

Such a rich sound, amazing.

@MattyK-USA 4 ай бұрын

Just a beautiful guitar! To me, it almost sounds made for slide playing. I'd love to hear it in Open G with that slide 😍

@MatthijsKoningstein 4 ай бұрын

Wow, just wow. No more words are needed.

@chriskondracki7398 4 ай бұрын

Sounds really perfect 👍

@Baking_baked 4 ай бұрын

That sound, especially when you were on the slide is so pretty. And it helps that the guitar itself is a work of art. I hope these guitars are played and not hung like art.

@webstercat 4 ай бұрын

Masterful Work! True Artists…..much appreciated….

@johnmclaughlin5671 3 ай бұрын

Reading the inlay quote seems to me be the guitar talking, not Clapton. It’s the music inside the guitar raging to be free. That is a beautiful sound coming from that work of art.

@PaisleyPatchouli 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful build there... The inlay is not my cup of tea, but it sure has tone for ages. Lucky buyer!!

@MrJayscinema 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning. The best artwork guitar I’ve seen. Beats anything out of Martin. Even the 27k one that was at the show. However to play, I’d want satin finish

@chrismead4337 4 ай бұрын

Nice guitar. Well done. Dylan, I caught that Little Feat riff. 💥 You guys are great players.

@LMacNeill 4 ай бұрын

Willin' Awesome song. 🙂

@dylanadamsguitar 4 ай бұрын

One of my favorite tunes! And thanks 🙏🏻

@msmith2016 4 ай бұрын

Also - I have a mid 40s Gibson southern jumbo with an adirondack top and mahogany back and sides. It is the most amazing guitar I've ever heard (and the loudest) and has this same touch sensitivity. Chris's guitar reminds me so much of it.

@jeremybiggs8413 4 ай бұрын

Fair play, that does sound beautiful.

@thomastaylor6998 4 ай бұрын

30 years touring & recording. I’ve never come across a guitar that wants for nothing both dynamically, tonally. I doubt such a perfectly beautiful sound can be replicated by any luthier.

@craiglyons3975 4 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday!!

@dougcrowe1226 4 ай бұрын

So cool- i love seeing you fellas together also. A privilege to play for certain- i dont usually get jealous

@leeg7106 4 ай бұрын

Well you can definitely hear the weight of the note, so full. That acoustic would do wonders in a studio, Owner is going to love this guitar. Great job! I want one 🎶

@seanmormelo01 4 ай бұрын

Chris Alvarado @driftwoodguitars is a true master of his craft. I met him while he was still in the Air Force while I was gigging and living in Alaska running open mic nights. Chris would come out and play and I could tell you that talent that was Yet to be unfurled. he said I inspired him to get into music music after the Air Force and not long after he started building guitars. Darn and I really should’ve had him build me one like 10 years ago!

@timothygrupp 4 ай бұрын

Now that's what a guitar sounds like! Amazing.

@SeanOHanlon 4 ай бұрын

That beauty is articulate and has a really rich sound. I would say it's right up there with Huss & Dalton or Lowden.

@markguynn7254 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful !!!!

@beatlesfan2788 4 ай бұрын

Loved hearing that snippet of Willin’ by Little Feat there in the demo! Sounds so good

@simonhall2682 4 ай бұрын

Sounds amazing, incredible clarity and punch. Not just a show pony.

@ollie9397 4 ай бұрын

That thing is ridiculous ! the bevels are amazing.

@ShrkBiT 4 ай бұрын

Hooooly moly that is freaking incredible. My jaw literally dropped. What a beauty!

@pattheitguy 4 ай бұрын

Rhett, There is a point in quality that usually money buys, where the instrument moves from being played to showing its character and when that happens, the detail of how string vibrations work with each other produces sounds that you cannot get with a regular guitar. This must be what luthiers have been searching for since the first fine guitars were ever made. So while most people want to play guitar, only a few get to appreciate the guitar playing back. P.S. There is music so good, not the actual notes or the melody or whatever, but there's music from an instrument that is so good that it makes you hear things you never thought were there, and it it chokes you up and you get a little teared realizing how much you've been missing.

@arunb3713 4 ай бұрын

Exquisite art!

@sebastienmaillet1340 4 ай бұрын

I do not think I could ever afford such a beautiful instrument, but as an Eric Clapton fan... I believe this neck design and the incredible wood used make it my dream guitar... thanks for creating it... even if we do not ever see it again... this is a piece of art...

@1981FlyingV 4 ай бұрын

I love watching Chris' channel.

@bartholomewromero3383 4 ай бұрын

I love the art work it's a beautiful guitar!

@FoardenotFord 4 ай бұрын

I can’t decide what’s more gorgeous - how this guitar looks or how it sounds

@Jason_Lindholm 4 ай бұрын

The sound if that acoustic us amazing

@ronnieblanchet4072 4 ай бұрын

SO much grace! God bless y’all! Thanks for sharin’ Rhett! SOLI DEO GLORIA (To The Glory Of God Alone) Father, Son & Holy Spirit -Ronnie

@matthewmcclure3181 4 ай бұрын

I purchased two of these tops from Alaska Specialty Woods about a decade ago, commissioned one guitar and held onto the other top. Knew the supply was running low but didn't know it was now exhausted. This video does a good job of demonstrating it's tonal qualities. Might consider selling the spare top to finance more outboard gear if anyone is interested.

@kennewton5877 4 ай бұрын

Nice Playing guys.

@davehardy9555 4 ай бұрын

WOW IS RIGHT!! Not sure I've ever heard an acoustic guitar sound that good. Base is off the chart but so is everything else! Very Nice!

@HarryNicNicholas 4 ай бұрын

i have a martin OOOX1 that blows my mind, i would love to compare it to more guitars cos frankly i think it's the best sounding acoustic i ever did (i've bought and sols at least 60 guitars since 2014, and more in my 70 years) it's all so subjective. (i also have a 66 j45, a 69 epi texan, a maton, a larrivee, it's better than all of them)

@intersanctum 4 ай бұрын

@@HarryNicNicholas this is 30 000+ guitar