Leach RO11 1993

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Specifications

This guitar is an earlier version of a Leach Orchestra body style acoustic guitar. Crafted of maple sides and back, with a redwood top, this instrument is open and bright with a full midrange and sparkling top end. There is some wear on the top but this guitar is in good condition structurally.

About Leach Guitars

Harvey Leach is a world renowned luthier, inlay artist and inventor. He has been building musical instruments since 1972, starting out with banjos and then adding mandolins and finally guitars in 1980. Over the past four decades he has built more than 350 instruments with the majority being guitars. He has built guitars for music industry elite such as Roy Clark, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, John McEuen, Elliot Easton and Thom Bresh.

While impressive as that list might be Harvey is probably best known for his inlay work which has pushed the boundaries of the art form. His own guitars such as the Geisha, Samurai and Sept. 11th combined with commissioned work for some of the most respected guitar companies; C.F. Martin, Paul Reed Smith, Collings and Warrior, have set new standards for artistic inlay, particularly some of his collaborations with Martin Guitars. Chris Martin approached Harvey several years ago about inlaying “museum quality” instruments that could be sold to the buying public rather than being hung in the Martin Museum.

The first Project, The Harvey Leach – Martin Custom Cowboy, was created to debut at NAMM and hang next to the Millionth Martin. The Theme of the guitar was the time of the very first Martin, 1833. This guitar featured a technique that Harvey developed that uses thin layers of Mother-of-Pearl shell to obscure inlays underneath with a holographic effect. The “Cowboy” featured a mirror, and smoke done with this technique. Martin’s Dick Boak nicknamed the effect “Smoke and Mirrors.” Other Martin collaborations include the Melisa Vine, the Western, the Medieval, the Asian Dragon and the Hot Rod. In 2010 Harvey collaborated with master scrimsander Bob Hergert to create a special Martin in celebration for their 1,500,000th guitar.