Candelas Guitars is a flavorful badass conduit for life-skills in the form of guitar lessons. Generations of experience and craftsmanship has coaxed the depth of my cultural roots to the surface. Kenneths teaching is on point, well-rounded, and individualized. His passion for guitar music is palpable and inspiring. Highly recommend!

Awesome place to visit and buy if you are serious about string instruments. A true gem find in East LA! This place makes guitars, violins, harps, and ukuleles. Many are one of a kind. The sounds that come out of these masterpieces are stunning. Usually they project out, like an opera singer in the highest pitch and volume. Amazing California music maker, going on second generation and getting the third ready. I love it! Thanks for being around.

Came in to Candelas to get new guitar strings. I was really happy with the service and that my strings were changed right away. My kids and I are now taking classical guitar lessons here, we have learned so much from Teacher Kenneth and grateful to Candelas for their amazing service and knowledge in music.

A magical shop ! Was looking for nylon strings and found a treasure !Lucky neighborhood Boyle Heights !

A few years ago, I had the unfortunate luck of breaking my daughters Guitarron. The strap broke off while on my shoulder and it shattered! Believe me, I almost wanted to shed tears. I had it (somewhat) fixed in Phoenix AZ, where I reside. While the repair was just serviceable for a while, the instrument was probably waay too far damaged to repair correctly. It broke apart again.Knowing the legend of Candelas Guitars in California, we made it a point to drive to Los Angeles and see what Tomas Delgado could do at his shop.The first question Tomas asked my daughter was what do you want with this instrument? My daughter promptly replied I just want it to sound the same as before. Tomas said that her saying those words instead of saying she wanted it to look good, was exactly what he wanted to hear.The pictures dont do it justice in how bad it broke. So I had my doubts in how well the repair would be. Tomas assured us that he could fix it. So while at the shop, my wife and I decided to reward our daughter with a brand new Guitarron as well. This would be custom made to our daughters specifications. The repairs of the broken Guitarron would take a couple of months, as would finishing off building the new Guitarron. But having Candelas on her own instrument should be worth the wait.....We returned about three months later and low and behold the broken instrument was back in working order!! Tomas said it was pretty bad and he said it wouldve been much easier to just strip the top off and put an entire new one on. But knowing that this instrument was old and knowing what our daughter said to him initially, I think he took it as a personal challenge to keep it as original as possible.A year later, the instrument is still holding on strong! But now our daughter also has the privilege of playing a BEAUTIFUL new Guitarron built straight from the hands of Tomas and his crew for her! If we ever need instrument repairs again, we will not hesitate one bit to drive back out to California in a heartbeat to see Candelas work their magic again!!THANKS CANDELAS!!

Grate work, my guitar never sounded better, not cheep but worth every cent, Gracias Juan. bendiciones.

Bought a guitar recently for my fiancé. Pretty good staff and collection. They have nice monthly deals!

Took my Guitarron in to have the action lowered. They did a great job and got it back to me sooner than I expected. I am very pleased. Excellent work and customer service. Glad I came here.

Terrible service. Needs to work on their customer service skills. I do not recommend.

You will never find better work than through Candelas. From Loretta in the front to Thomas with his care, work and engery put into the instruments to Kenneth with his amazing approach to teaching. This place is a historic landmark. When you get your instrument worked on here, you know it will last. Please support Candelas as well as its Non Profit- Candelas Music Art Foundation

Awesome place to visit and buy

Best place ever!!!! Been going here for over 20 years. Quality guitars that are hand crafted and they have guitars that meet everyones price point. Great customer service. They also offer ukulele, guitar, and harmonica lessons. The instructor works with everyone in a different manner to meet the students learning strengths. He even gives you a detailed report card on your progress..Dont forget the unique and rich history of the owner and business!!!!

I had them do a setup on a steel string acoustic guitar, job exceded my expectations at a fair price! Great craftsmanship, Highly recommended!

I owned Candelas classical guitars since 1971. This is a big family operation now run by Tomas, the grandson of the builder of the 2 instruments I have. He loves to talk about his work and is clearly dedicated. He does, however, get overwhelmed and is sometimes hard to get to respond to questions.The guitars are works of art.

This place is fantastic friendly, knowledgeable and honest, I came in with a completely destroyed and unplayable guitar, Tomas restored my family heirloom to a state better than it was before using 99.995% of the original wood, I will forever be grateful for what they did for my family. Muchas gracias amigos!!! Candelas is the Stradivarius of East Los.

Beautiful old world craftsmanship with kind customer service. Highly recommended!

Im the proud owner of an amazing Rosewood and Cedar Flamenco guitar crafted by the Delgado family at Candelas Guitar in Los Angeles!!I hope to someday play up to its potential!!Jim McGlasso

I just had the inductor switched on my wah by Eli at Guitar Centers repair center and let me just say that its a brand new wah. Great work, excellent communication, and will work with you if you need a repair or mod in a hurry.

I own 3 Candelas Guitars! The best I ever played! Tomas Delgado is a Master Luthier! The real thing!

The directions to Candelas Guitar on Ceasar Chavez in ELA was ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, TAKING THE FREEWAY LITERALLY TOOK YOU THE LONNNG/WRONG WAY .. THE BEST WAY TO GO WAS AND IS TO TAKE THE STREETS...

Its all good in the hood

We just bought our first violin there, I saw many pics of artist that they get their instruments there! We are looking forward to buy our 2nd violin 😉

Simply the best Luthier in Southern California

AMAZING classes

Great craftsmanship

Magnificent

I travel two hours to buy a guitar, I do not know if I had bad luck today, but there was a lady attending that did not allow me to try or see their selection of guitars they have, it only allowed me to try some of the lowest quality, and she stopped at my pair, which did not let me feel comfortable, I had been told of a greater variety, and varied prices, the ones he showed me were $ 500 and I asked if there was more value and he said no, even though I could see through the door that there were many more hung on the wall, the lady was not friendly at all, today I will order a guitar by zzound where I buy my electronic instruments, with enough attitude to give all the information that one needs, very disappointed of this place

GUITAR CANDLES, THE MAXIMUM IN GUITARS, THERE IS NO OTHER SUCH AS GUITAR CANDLES, IN CESAR E CHAVEZ, IN BOYLE HEYTHS,, EASTLOS

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