n.i.c.e. guitars - handmade quality instruments from switzerland.
N.I.C.E. Guitars feature finest tonewoods, beautiful hand-rubbed urethane or oil/wax and shellac finishes, prime pickups, Gotoh bridges, Grover locking tuners and SIT strings.
All these ingredients combined with our long standing experience in guitar building (since 1985) result in top quality instruments capable of meeting highest expectations.
The models are steadily evolving and the guitars shown on our website are the newly designed Classic Vibe series. Stay tuned for the Cutting Edge series, featuring new body shapes, to be introduced later this year.
Ballurio Guitars Home of Exceptional Handcrafted Custom Electric Guitars.
At Ballurio Guitars, we are committed to building fine handcrafted custom electric guitars. We believe that a extraordinary guitar is a product of:
Construction techniques that result in an heirloom quality guitar
Hand selection of the guitar's woods to ensure exceptional stability and acoustical properties
We outfit all of our instruments with the finest components; and to achieve a superior sound, we design and develop our own pickups to match the unique qualities of each of our guitars. Every guitar we build is a unique work of art as beautiful to look at as it is to hear.
Paul Guy is a guitarist, guitar builder and repairer, based in Stockholm, with over 30 years experience in the trade. He also writes interviews, articles and a monthly column for the Swedish guitar magazine FUZZ.
got my first guitar for Christmas 1959 and have been playing ever since. Today my main business is guitar repair - I opened my first workshop on Katarina Bangata in Stockholm in 1980. Before going into guitar repair full time I had worked as a professional musician for around 17 years ...
Sebastian Stenzel: Classical Masterguitars.
Sebastian Stenzel was born in 1966 in the university town of Goettingen as the son of a university professor of German literature and a schoolteacher. In the context of his widespread interests in the entire field of fine arts and science, he was working with wood from childhood on. He started playing classical guitar at the age of 10, and made his first guitar at 14. At that time already, his guitar teacher suggested he choose guitar making as a profession. However, he graduated from highschool with the intention of studying Physics, but abandoned the idea when he found that it was practical application, not abstract theory, which interested him.
He served his apprenticeship with a local guitar maker from 1989 to 1991.
In the following years he continued making and improving his own classical and flamenco guitars ...
Sebastian Stenzel kam 1966 als Sohn eines Professors für Germanistik und einer Lehrerin in Göttingen zur Welt. Von Kindheit an arbeitete er mit Holz.
Mit zehn fing er an, klassische Gitarre zu erlernen, mit vierzehn baute er seine erste Gitarre, was seinen Lehrer zu dem Vorschlag veranlaßte, er solle den Gitarrenbau als Beruf ergreifen. Nach dem Abitur wollte er jedoch Physik studieren, stellte aber fest, daß er mehr zur praktischen Anwendung, als zur
abstrakten Theorie neigte.
Ab 1989 absolvierte er eine Ausbildung bei dem Münchner Gitarrenbauer Gert Esmyol. In den folgenden Jahren entwickelte und verbesserte er kontinuierlich sein eigenes Gitarrenmodell.
1996 eröffnete er seine eigene Werkstatt in München, in der klassische und Flamenco-Gitarren für eine stetig steigende Nachfrage aus aller Welt entstehen sowie Reparaturen und Restaurierungen auf höchstem Niveau ausgeführt werden ...