"I love process of designing instruments, marrying acoustical, electrical, visual and ergonomic engineering with industrial and artistic design."
~ Barry Grzebik (via bassgearmag.com)
California-based Barry Grzebik is a true modern renaissance man. Before founding his guitar company, he served as Director of Engineering at Apogee Sound, where he designed everything from digital signal processors to award-winning loudspeakers.
Barry’s expertise in sound, quality, and craftsmanship ultimately led him to guitar making, where he created the Mendocino model - a lightweight instrument with rich tonal depth, bridging the gap between an ES-335 and an archtop.
Reclaim
The reclaimed or salvaged Old Growth Redwood used at Grez Guitars are from first growth trees often 800+ years old.
This reclaimed wood is sourced from deconstructed or rehabilitated structures such as train tunnels, wine barrels, water vessels, vinegar tanks, barns and factories.
Replant
The Grez Guitars sustainability program, in cooperation with Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. (RFFI), allows the company to have an annual redwood planting during the rainy season in Northern California.
Grez Guitars are produced in an area between the great Armstrong Woods State Preserve and the Muir Woods National Monument.
Numerous redwood forests exist in the area on both public and private land that are well protected and maintained, but represent a tiny fraction of forests compared to just over 100 years ago.
Reuse
Using reclaimed wood produces exceptional solid, semi-hollowbody and acoustic guitars that are surprisingly light weight, acoustically vibrant, and uniquely beautiful.
