Régis Floury is selling a baroque guitar, model Fantaisie, entirely handmade in his workshop in July 2026.
The instrument is inspired by the famous guitar built by René Voboam in 1641, now preserved and exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. Its design takes up several of the characteristic elements of seventeenth-century French baroque guitars, both in construction and in decoration.
The soundboard is made of spruce. The body is built from different layers of wood separated by fillets of ebony, maple, purpleheart and walnut, creating the interplay of colours and materials typical of the marquetry of these instruments. The neck combines different hard and light woods.
The guitar is decorated with marquetry throughout, including the neck and the pegbox. The rosette is made of parchment, following the traditional technique used in the building of historical guitars.
The instrument has five courses, 14 frets and a vibrating string length of 650 mm.
It is a new, handcrafted instrument conceived for the baroque guitar repertoire, combining research into the historical models with a construction thought out for today’s player.
Details:
- Maker: Régis Floury (Vigo, Galicia, Spain)
- Year: July 2026
- Model: Fantaisie, after René Voboam (1641, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
- Courses: 5
- String length: 650 mm
- Frets: 14
- Soundboard: spruce
- Body: layered woods separated by ebony, maple, purpleheart and walnut fillets
- Neck and pegbox: hard and light woods, entirely decorated with marquetry
- Rosette: parchment, traditional technique
- Condition: new
Location: Vigo, Galicia (Spain). The guitar can be seen and tried at the workshop by appointment.
Price: €3500. A rigid hard case is available for an extra €250.
Contact: Régis Floury — regisfloury@gmail.com — www.regisfloury.com — +34 611 061 557 (ES) / +33 607 066 305 (FR)
