Peter:

Although I know very little about guitars, a friend of mine (we go back to 1947) plays classical guitar and for the past twenty plus years has made custom guitars. I saw and listened to one first in 1988, and thought is was really nice. At our 50 year reunion last year we were talking about this, and he said, "oh, that was nothing, I've come a long way since".

They are likely more than you are looking for, but you may find some very interesting stuff about guitars on his site (any guitarist may be interested):

http://www.lazarguitars.com/

He is lives in St. Albert, AB, but builds guitars for people all over NA.

G