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 Guitars

                                                         technoLOGICALLY improved Tradition

Please visit "Building Blogs"-section of this site for our recent 1959 Les Paul-Replica builds if interested.

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Soon you will find here more infos about a new line of fine handmade guitars:

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- Archtop + Gypsy

- Electric

- Steel String

Untill then all is under construction and this website needs a major update, we know... don´t be confused, at this time we are concentrated on making two vintage correct 1959 Les Pauls and publish the vintage correct informations/dimensions in the Building-Blogs section.

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Check our web album with pics from the building process and from the woods+materials we used, click here.

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First guitar to present is the archtop-queen, we named her "JazzPest":

JazzPest: The 17´´ Archtop-Queen

More pics from the finished guitar you can find here.

Below you can find some pics from the "making-of" out of the finishing room:

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For detailed full-size impressions from the making click here.

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Like all of our instruments our high-end archtop "JazzPest" is hand-made of full solid materials as old stock German Moonspruce and old stock European Maple from Bosnia (20+ years old cello wood).

• 17-inch width at lower bout, 24.6´´ /625 mm scale for lower tension for advanced fingerpicking
• One soundport in the upper bout
• 5-piece multi-layer neck of flamed maple with ebony inserts "wedge-style" (adding additional stiffness)
• Bridge, tailpiece, fingerboard, headplate and fingerrest made of ebony
• Multiple binding of flamed maple and ebony around the top and back, heelcap and f-holes
• Multi-layer rear of headstock (see pic below) 
• One (floating) Schaller JazzHumbucker with adjustable pole pieces, attached to the end of the neck
• Thumbwheel pots for Volume and Tone hidden below the armrest
• Gold hardware incl. endpin jack, gold tuners with ebony buttons
• Thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish (high gloss) 

We take care in creating this outstanding intrument "Made in Germany" for you. We do them one-by-one and by hand.

This guitar was played by Tornado Rosenberg during a private visit and he liked it so much that he borrought it and will use it on his next record. Update June 2010: Tornado is currently using this guitar for recordings.

A first and rough livingroom-recording (direct into the PC) of "Diese Nacht" (This Night) you can find here - better one will follow.