Labels for Handmade Guitars

Halfway through 1967 we added an extra space to label nº 9. This space contains the registry number of the guitar, and the signature of José Ramírez III. Below his signature, we manually added the class classification of the guitar - 1º or 2º- as explained in reference to label nº 10. The golden edged label nº 10, for second class guitars, disappeared. The size of the label is 83 x 100 mm.

Labels for Second Class (2ª) Guitars

In a period when the possibility of buying top quality wood, at any price, was very difficult, José Ramírez III created a label for guitars built without the standards of wood that he would have wished. These labels are like nº 12, but the background is light gray, and there is a red line around the main body of the label. Beneath the main label, in the additional space where the signature goes, the number two can be seen. We stopped using this label in 1988.

In 1979, three years before the centenary of Ramírez, José Ramírez III created this commemoration model. The label he designed for this guitar is similar to the one normally used (Nº 12), but has significant differences.
A parchment style card is used, instead of paper. The letters of the name are not shaded - a characteristic in other labels - and all the letters are in a glossy black.

This label is like nº 12, but - as in the "Centenario", the letters of the name are not shaded and all the letters are in a glossy black.

We started to use them in 1981, with the construction of the first guitars of this type. The design, in so far as the lines and the type and colour of the letters is the same as nº 12, but the background colour is red.

In 1986 JR III designed a guitar with an exclusive shaft-length of 650 mm. To distinguish it, this sticker was added to the normal label nº 12.

The French guitarist Marcel Dadí participated in some of the external details of this guitar. JR III put this small sticker as a mark of recognition of his disinterested collaboration.

A guitar of very recent creation (2003), named the SP (Semi Professional) Model. One should not mistake it for a studio model, also named SP, which was designed by José Ramírez IV in 1990. It was constructed in his own workshop, and was a prototype of the Special Professional model put on sale in 1991,and of which only a few examples are in existence.