Omang guitars – Early and classical guitars. Since his apprenticeship with Esteban Gonzalez in Buenos Aires, Simen Omang has gained 15 years of experience as an independent guitarmaker in Norway. He has been researching the obvious and the hidden secrets of guitar making traditions from the 17th to 20th century, and his guitars incorporate ideas…
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Theofilos Bakirtzidis is both a luthier and musician. He left the city early in his life in order to live and work surrounded by tall trees and singing birds on a beautiful mountain. He makes his instruments concentrating on a different axis… special lumber (lightening-struck chestnut), innovation (solid body to semi hollow sound), ecology (no…
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Tino started his education in woodworking as a cabinet maker in 1997. From 2004, step by step, he has worked and studied the art of guitar-making beside the master guitar maker Kazuo Sato. Since 2007 Tino has been living his dream by opening his own company in Siersburg and finally building his very own guitars.…
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The carved “X-bracing” that you’ll see beneath the soundhole of a Bashkin Guitar reflects Michael’s holistic approach to design. It’s both visually elegant and an innovative tool for balancing the guitar’s voice. Michael’s design philosophy came into focus during his studies with Harry Flieschman and Ervin Somogyi. “Wood is one of nature’s most remarkable gifts,”…
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Daniel’s passion is building classical guitars in various sizes, types and shapes. He loves the fine, meticulously accurate, down to the smallest detail thought through and designed work far from the mainstream. This includes multi-strings with up to 18 strings, guitars of different tunings and sizes, from the octave guitar to the bass guitar. Also crossover…
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FranFret Handmade Guitars is the idea of a guitarrist to built high quality electric guitars, where the most important thing is to offer instruments that fits in your style, where we share our knowledge and experience with you for creating unique instruments. “From my childhood I was surrounded by music and specially guitars, the passion…
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Starting as a hobbyluthier, Gerhard Schöpp took up building guitars in 2008. He later decided to attend the Hallstatt school for luthiery, from which he graduated with a masters degree in stringed instrument making, including both violins and guitars. Gerhard opened his own workshop in his hometown Zell am See in 2018, where he focuses…
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CGIG stands for Christoph Garwels Individual Guitars. Christoph started his business in 2013 near Bremen in northern Germany and he’s been constantly working on new ideas and models since. As a result, he has been steadily expanding his knowledge and skills in order to be able to break new ground. The electric guitar is a…
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Isaac Jang is a guitar maker based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was born, and raised in S. Korea, and moved to the U.S. in 1999. In 2007, Isaac apprenticed under his most admirable mentor, Kathy Wingert, and learned from basic construction skills to fine tuning every element of the guitar. Isaac specialises in…
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Théo Kazourian is a guitar luthier based in Montreal specialising in handcrafted acoustic guitars. He has an artisanal approach to the instruments he creates, this means he is not trying to industrialise his process but rather trying to find more refined ways to make better acoustic guitars. He therefore voluntarily limits the number of guitars…
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