Hancock Guitar Making Course by Dane and Sean Hancock. Build your own guitar during a two week guitar making course located in Mount Tamborine, Queensland.

Sean Hancock

Born 1981 on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. At age 11 Sean learnt to make guitars from his father Kim. Sean managed to fit building guitars in with his education and gained a bachelors degree in Product Design. Sean won the Nescafe Big Break in 1997 for guitar making which included prize money of $20,000 which he used towards advancing his guitar making craft.

Sean visited GSI (Guitar Salon International) in the U.S.A. for the first time in 1999 with his father and brother Dane. At this time Sean had the opportunity to play many fine concert classical guitars and was most impressed with a Brazilian rosewood and German spruce Hauser II instrument. Sean used the guitars of Hauser I &II to model his own instruments on. Sean now sells his instruments in the USA through GSI and in Japan through Aura Classical Guitars.

Sean and his brother Dane recently travelled to Japan the USA and Europe and while abroad have played and studied instruments from nearly every master classical guitar maker. Sean has also learned the Spanish method of guitar building from two of the world's greatest Luthiers, Jose and Liam Romanillos while attending the Romanillos Guitar Workshop in Siguenza Spain, 2007.

Sean and Dane’s ancestors, the Doherty family were prominent timber cutters and timber boat builders in Tasmania in the 19^th century. They were among the original cutters of Huon Pine, which is a prized timber for fine cabinet and furniture making and boat building.

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