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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 philosophy of one's own work. Not an easy task. There are many different formats and designs circulating in the guitar making scene and somehow it is also a bit of a trademark of a guitar maker. For me it was clear from the beginning that I I didn't want to make it easy for myself when it comes to the paperwork of my guitars and I was ready to walk the extra mile that it takes to create something special. So after a long search, I met Matthias Schwethelm from the Papieroffizin, who makes a paper from old cotton rags to make a beautiful handmade paper. It is a fascinating craft and I plan to visit Matthias in the future to make a couple of sheets of the paper myself.
A special honor for me is the collaboration with the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. In the printing workshop of the museum, the prints of my guitar labels, certificates and hang-tags are made on antique machines. All on Matthias' handmade paper.
So in the end every Pertsch guitar bears not only my own handwriting but also that of other guilds. That makes me very proud. Thanks again for the support!
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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