Right after the harp guitar was finished and I posted the pics on the site I started getting messages and thumbs up! What a day.
In the meanwhile Francesco is playing on it 12 hours a day, taking it everywhere, skipping breakfast to play...

A few friends jamming @ the Maxmonte Guitars' booth at the 2012 Sarzana Acoustic Guitar Meeting

A short video of me glueing the back braces on the go bar deck with hot hide glue. 

Francois Sciortino having fun on a Italia spruce and Madagascar rosewood Columbia at the 2009 ADGPA convention.

Well, I must say that Sarzana this year was a lot of fun! 

Here is the wood for a new Danube... The top is a very crispy sounding Italian spruce, and the back and sides are cocobolo. 

At the ADGPA 2013 convention maestro Pietro Nobile tried the new Danube model. Even with such a big body the sound is balanced for fingerpicking and subtle nuances. In the capable hands of Pietro the guitar really sang!

At the closing event for the 2012 Acoustic Franciacorta Muriel Anderson borrowed a Maxmonte harp guitar since hers got lost in transit :(

The concert was fantastic! And Muriel used the harp guitar for the rest of her Italian tour... A very special thanks to the owner Roberto Zanolli for lending it to her!

Gabriele Posenato tries the HG2 @ Acoustic Franciacorta 2011

Other than the usual unhealty clutter of tools and things... I have some guitars on the bench! I am finishig a new jumbo acoustic, a Danube model, and a custom hollowbody electric. Both are turning out great!