Handmade Guitars & Luthiers at Guitar Street, a Tourist Destination in Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City

[@tyronelowe7090]

Sitka wood maybe? I heard of that one before.

[@Rino88dotcom]

The guitar prices you mentioned are so high on this street. I wonder if Vietnam has any big guitar factories like China?

[@camerado]

Not sure, this is pretty much the epicenter of locally made guitars in HCMC; they do have their workshops elsewhere, mostly tho

[@mrstokes6580]

looks an incredible luthier

[@misterhlam]

Thank you very much! I'll be in Saigon in 2 weeks. Definitely will visit this area, especially Duy Ngoc Guitar cause I heard he has excellent quality instruments. Will look at his Ukulele for sure. When the guy tried to say spruce, but he could not say it well.

[@camerado]

Kool - tell the guy you saw the video here on KZbin, he may remember when we were shooting it ;)

[@tranthihongngan-u0355]

nonnom in vietnam there is one people made guitar besst. His name is Ngoc Thuc

[@tyronelowe7090]

Decorating the back of the guitar is probably questionable. But every guitar has a customer coming for it. Nice performance by the way

[@camerado]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the vid :)

[@tyronelowe7090]

Indian rose wood i heard about. Maybe tags on the guitars will help some buyers to read the wood types used on the guitar? The sales people seem to know the woods, but who really knows if they are getting it right?

[@camerado]

Tags is a good idea; next time I'm in Saigon, will pass on the suggestion

[@HoangNguyen.789]

could you please give me the name of this shop

[@camerado]

I don't recall now, but all the guitar shops in that district are on the same street or nearby streets

[@HoangNguyen.789]

Thanks for your feedback. But my English is pretty bad. If I have confused you or bothered you. Please forgive me

[@johannbach1903]

I wanted to originally travel to thailand until I found out about this place! I'm obsessed with guitars & never knew this existed. Yeah, I'm going here instead!

[@camerado]

Enjoy!

[@kingrobert1st]

I went there and had my 12 string restored by Dai Vet. He did a brilliant job for $120!

[@tyvoremusic]

I went there a couple of years ago. Many shops on the street, and guitars were awesome. However, most of the shop did not have delivery options - I have to manage it myself. I was in the middle of my trip, so I did not want to carry the guitar, or spend time figuring out how to ship the guitar.

[@jimmyspage9650]

I will check out Luthier's Street on our next visit or when we retire there, I play. My wife (who is Vietnamese) says to bring a translator next time or Google Translate. He does not understand a word! Lol Note: Easy way to remember - "Wassup Sut". :-)

[@combolife]

Sitka!!!

[@DonzFedora]

Did you buy any from his shop?

[@camerado]

Did not buy this time as I have a guitar already; when I need a new acoustic, will def revisit these guys

[@ernestovidales09]

Koa Wood

[@oramirez77513]

“Kwa” wood.. could that be Hawaiian Koa? And “ziga wood” is probably Alaskan Sitka (Spruce)

[@phungmoe2302]

That is Vet Maple not the European Maple

[@phungmoe2302]

in Vet... they r maker just do inlays. So they will just get them to make it then bring back n assembly themselves.

[@phungmoe2302]

I think he meant Asian Koa

[@phungmoe2302]

Asian Koa has different color to those standard Hawaiian

[@phungmoe2302]

I think is Sika not Ziga. And it is cheap bcos is just some asian sika unlike European Sika.

[@phungmoe2302]

that is a contrabass 6 strings

[@tyronelowe7090]

Pipa and some of those instruments are chinese and asian.