The Shop :

Welcome to the shop. If you'd like to test the instruments, you should come to Antwerp, but I can present the guitars with some nice pictures here. At the moment, all the instruments come at prices under 3000€.

 For this you get top quality materials in an instrument with its own character. Made with lots of love, and lots of work (about 250 hours each). This is far cheaper than the guitars of equal quality you'll find elsewhere. I invite you to come and assert this. I only use the top quality woods I can find (I go to Spain personally to sort my woods). I can afford to spend more time on details and experiments (leading to better guitars).

I can work cheaper because I'm exempt of VAT (so there's already a difference of 21%), buying directly from the builder is cheaper than buying in a shop and my main aim is to see to it that every good guitar player can afford a great instrument.

This shop page does not contain my entire stock, so please come and discover the rest.

A quick overview (click the picture to go to the detailed description of the instrument):

 The basic models (I have more cedar and spruce guitars at home)

     

The latest

And the special one: the small hands guitar

small hands 2016

                        

and two cd's

 

Guitar cedar, stampel, finished in 2022

This guitar was built following the plan and ways of the last years. After nearly 30 years of lutherie, it's nice to see how one really gets to master the proces of guitar building. This way I get a constant quality. This guitar is a nice example of it.

           

           

  

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Guitar spruce, 2023

Here is one without a sister. I'm amazed at how fast this guitar is evolving (in the right direction!) even after playing it for just a few hours. But now she awaits you to come and play her.

        

 

        

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Small hands guitar

The difference with the above: everything. The only thing remaining the same is the quality of the build and the sound. I've used different woods (walnut, kingwood), it has a different bracing, the bridge has another design, I've used a carbon fiber rod in the neck, it's a 640 in stead of 650 mm guitar, the neck is smaller, it has quite a different rosette, ... Really a different instrument alltogether. And an ideal one if your hands are small.

                   

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Two CD's

When I receive groups for workshops, or on the days I open up my shop to the public, people don't buy a guitar. To give them a souvenir of my work, I recorded 2 ceedees people can buy for 10€. The first one is called 'In de hoofdrol' and shows 4 of my guitars playing the leading part. This CD showcases the guitar in solo, duet and trio, with music from composers as Bach, Joplin, myself, ...

in de hoofdrol

The second one is called 'Tesamen',  and was made to show the versatility of the guitar, with solo guitar, but also a number of guitars playing together, and adding other instruments like the cello, the bassguitar, didgeridoo, cornetto, percussion. All instruments were played by myself.

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I do hope these pictures can incite you to visit me in Antwerp!!