This O'leary quickly found an appreciative new home, I am hoping for another O'Leary soon, please contact me to place a deposit for first look and find out why Berta Rojas plays an O'Leary guitar exclusively...

Michael's guitars have been an 'insider secret' for a few years now, but eventually the word leaked across the pond and into my ears. Now there is a lot of open 'buzz' about his guitars. By now perhaps you have noticed the photo of Berta Rojas and her O'Leary in the D'Addario ads. Berta is now playing and recording solely with her O’Leary guitar.

The first O'leary arrived about a year ago after two years of trying to get one. It sold immediately to a client who was so impressed he ordered two more!

This guitar is my favorite one so far. Like all fine builders Michael is constantly accepting feedback and improving an already great instrument.

Michael is not only a fine guitar builder, but along with his son Alec, hosts the well known "Waltons Guitar Festival of Ireland". As the host of this festival he has had the opportunity to have some of the world’s finest players provide feedback regarding his instruments. Manuel Barrueco, John Williams, David Russell, Xuefei Yang, Elena Papanderou, Lorenzo Micheli and many more have been kind enough to play Michaels guitars and offer comments. Michael’s background (he has a degree in design and innovation) combined with the input received from many of the world's finest players has led to the creation of a truly superior guitar. Built with a braceless arched back and a combination bracing system that combines features of both the lattice bracing and fan bracing concepts to produce guitars which are unusually powerful, but with a tonal character that is deep, rich, dark, profound and surprisingly traditional all at the same time.

This guitar possesses robust volume, really quite excellent volume in fact, with a fullness and openness that is a joy to your ears, playing this guitar is in fact a very pleasant experience. The trebles are rich, round, full, not at all brittle or thin, and the basses are silky and can be 'driven' quite hard when desired. Michael included a 20^th half fret, and a 12 hole tie block as well and the special head plate is of very rare 6,000 old 'Bog Oak'!. This is a tremendous guitar from a builder with a very bright future. Sometime this year I know he plans a price increase as well, so in addition to being a fine guitar it may be one of the last at this price.

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