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Bert Kwakkel (The Netherlands) is one of the leading classical guitar makers nowadays. Bert Kwakkel brings with it 100% devotion to create a perfect instrument. Guitarists from all over the world praise him for his exceptional craftsmanship.
Mayones Guitars and Basses:
All this started in 1982 in a little house-workshop as a family business manufacturing hand-made instruments for individual orders. The name Mayones itself comes from a company founder nickname. The production process of a single guitar took the average of 2-3 months then, in the early eighties. But thanks to our passion and commitment, or maybe for the simple fact that we were like pioneers on the Polish market, the orders were soon coming in dramatically faster than they could be filled. And recalling these memories, Poland of the communism era, we remember people queuing in front of our door the night before they could finally get their guitar... But this was the way Mayones became guitars & basses icon, and till today – the finest Polish bands have been using our gear.
And just after Poland's transition into a free-market economy, the timing was right to make a good use of new possibilities. We could finally invest in high precision machines and modern facilities. But the core is still people - because here at Mayones every single guitar or bass is hand-built by our team of 20 craftsmen and engineers. So when you play our instrument, you can feel their talent, hardwork and years of experience. That’s why every instrument is distinctive and a class for its own ...
Gilles Mercier, Luthier: Conception et fabrication artisanale de guitares. Aix en Provence, France.
(...) Another experience, another vision, another conception : trained at the Mittenwald School of Luthiers, for a long time, Gilles Mercier, oscillated between the production of the instruments of the string quartet and the guitar.
He is now settled in Aix-en-Provence and makes only guitars. Recommended by musicians such as Dana Chivers, he is one of the few luthiers to use violonistic lutherie techniques. In particular, he works only with knife, plane and chisel, without machinery. The rosaces are black and white in accordance with violin filature technique, a neck/head V-joint lamination and French polish, in the purest tradition of the 19th century, are his unique marks.
He offers affordable concert models and more elaborated models in which, as in a epoch long past, "time doesn't count" ...