HILL SIGNATURE GUITARS are custom made using the most up-to-date designs, methods and materials to produce the highest quality sound, playability and beauty. This is our finest guitar.

The current Signature Model features a "double top" as first practiced by Damman, Wagner, and others. It is a sandwich of Nomex, an ultra light cell structure, between two very thin layers of cedar or spruce. This makes an extremely light sound board, but is also quite stiff, in a good way. Outwardly it seems just like a normal cedar sound board. This technique is borrowed from ultra light aviation technology. This guitar is braced fairly traditionally, with a bracing pattern similar to Miguel Rodriguez.

The Signature Model also features optional sound ports in the upper shoulders, as influenced on me by Robert Ruck. This is a feature I have grown to love (maybe addicted to is more like it); a guitar without these ports seems incomplete to me. The design works very well with or without the ports, but they would be two very different guitars.

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   - 2010 Hill Guitar Catalog (PDF)

Signature Series Options:

• Models: Classical & flamenco
• Sound board: Damann style double top in Western red cedar, Englemann spruce or combined
• Back & sides: Indian or Brazilian rosewood, cypress, maple
• Fingerboard: elevated ebony
• String length: 650mm, 640mm
• Tuners: Gilbert or Sloane
• Finish: French polish
• Base Price: Indian rosewood, cypress at $7500 (Brazillian rosewood at market price)

Call for quotes: (800) 262.8858

Customer Reviews

The other materials are Brazilian or Indian rosewood back and sides, traditional Spanish cedar neck and ebony fingerboard. I use a double action truss rod in the neck, so the string action can always be kept at optimum adjustment, regardless of changes in climate, etc. The truss rod has no negative effect on the guitar. I try to make the neck play perfectly.

This design and construction creates a very loud guitar, but not just loud -- beautiful. The dynamic range is wide and very easy to control, and the color palette is also very wide and extra easy to control. I've watched many fine players with these guitars, and their reaction is similar to mine, that is: it's great, and IT'S ADDICTIVE! There are certainly worse vices in the world.

The HILL SIGNATURE MODEL is the top of the line, best guitar I know how to make. Or at least it's my favorite. It represents the most up-to-date methods I know, and has a sound and a feel I absolutely love ... and can't be found in any other guitar I know of. It is always evolving, according to what ever has been working the best in pursuit of excellence, so I can only assume it will continue to evolve as long as I'm making guitars.