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It is a special attraction for me to capture my environment in a certain way in my guitars. An important position in this respect takes the option to decorate the guitars with inlays. Since I have been living on the Rhine for a few years now, it was obvious to me to use the shells I find in the river bed for the majority of my inlays. I call them the "Rheinmuschel" - I don't know if it's really called that, but I think that it fits quite well. With the use of the shells I can capture a piece of this beautiful and mighty river in my guitars. It's a very sublime feeling. I find that as a craftsman and creator, you also have a different connection to the material if you collect it yourself and prepare it elaborately in order to finally process it to the finished product. I constantly keep my eyes open for other interesting materials in my environment. Maybe one or the other material out there will end up as an inlay in the fretboard of one of my guitars.
By the way: Sometimes small personal mementos from customers can be processed as inlays. For example, one of my customers has inherited an old signet ring made of real gold which now adorns the fretboard of his guitar. I am open to ideas, feel free to contact me.
Thoughts and Ideas
Binding Work
I like to combine tradition and modernity. Therefore some of my work steps are are centuries old. For example, one of them would be gluing the binding with a rope. After the routings for the bindings and the purfling are made with the help of a router the glue is applied and a rope is looped [...]
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Almost every acoustic guitar has it - the builder's label inside the body. There you have the opportunity to get creative with your logo, serial number and so on. I like to compare it with a label on a wine bottle - really little space to give the customer a brief outline of the whole [...]
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It is a special attraction for me to capture my environment in a certain way in my guitars. An important position in this respect takes the option to decorate the guitars with inlays. Since I have been living on the Rhine for a few years now, it was obvious to me to use the shells I find in the river [...]
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I prefer to blend modernism with tradition. Thus, some of my steps date back hundreds of years. One such method would be to use a rope to coil the edges. After using a specific router jig to cut the trench for the curving edge [...]
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Within the body of almost every acoustic guitar is a note from the maker. You have the opportunity to let some steam off and immortalize yourself there, on a small area. I like to compare it to a wine bottle label since [...]
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To me, there is a distinct appeal in being able to accurately express my surroundings through my instruments. The decision to embellish guitars with inlays holds a unique place in this regard. And not with some imported abalone shell [...]
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