Interview : Jacques Favino
answers Patrice Veillon’s questions.
- How did you discover guitar-making?
-Out of the blue. But the moment I came across that trade, I fell in love with it. I was fascinated by the sounds you could draw out of a violin or a guitar. That was in 1945. My father arrived in France in 1922, and my mother and I in 1923, when I was three.

HISTORY OF FAVINO per Jean-Pierre
The burn I got from touching the hot bending-iron in my father’s workshop at the age of four was my first contact with the art of guitar-making.
My mother, who went to help out in the workshop from time to time ...