I have discovered the facebook profile of Kiyoto Tanaka, a Japanese luthier who builds romantic guitars and other instruments. Kiyoto Tanaka has documented the construction of his guitars in very detailed videos. It looks like magic how he uses his Japanese woodworking tools to take some wood and make a beautiful guitar out of it. …
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Martin Seeliger has started to build steelstring guitars in Germany in the earl 1980s. Today his brand Lakewood Guitars is known as a source for great guitars for fingerpickers, and many great artists are playing Lakewood guitars. On the website of the German guitar magazine Akustik Gitarre you can find a very interesting video with …
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I have just found an article on LaGuitare.com with the presentation of a mandolin built by luthier Hervé Coufleau. This mandolin is highly decorated with mother of pearl inlays – a very special and beautiful instrument. The mandolin is is also shown on the myspace page of Hervé Coufleau: More picures and an article about …
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This week I have a beautiful guitar on my Alfred’s Guitar Calender, so I thought I should find out more about this guitar and its maker. Is a Helliver F guitar, built in a small workshop in Münster in Germany. Only about 25 guitars are built every year. A slideshow of many guitars built by …
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