In the workshop
Lutherie
Guitars built by hand, one at a time. Wood chosen in person, a neck shaped to your hand, French-polished finishes.
In a workshop in Milan, among wood shavings and the smell of varnish, every guitar is built from scratch, one at a time — never in series, never two alike. It's work measured in weeks, not units produced: the wood is chosen in person, board by board, listening to what the grain says before it's even cut.
Commission a guitarIn progress, Milan workshop
The neck is where the work turns intimate: not a single mould for everyone, but a shape modelled on the hand of whoever will play that instrument — the thickness, the curve, where the thumb finds its rest. It's a detail no one buying a guitar off a shop wall ever gets to ask for.
The finish is the last step and the slowest: applied with a cloth, coat after coat, without rushing, until the wood's own colour comes through on its own, with no need to hide it under a thick layer of varnish. It's a technique that asks for patience more than equipment, and it shows in the result — a surface that seems to breathe, not seal.
The workshop isn't only for building: it repairs what others would give up on — open joints, necks to straighten, electronics to bring back to life. It's the same eye needed to build, applied in reverse: understanding what's wrong before you can fix it.
The guitar you play best is the one you built yourself.
The same hands that carve a neck also stitch leather and fabric — bags included — with the same care given to wood. It isn't a second, separate trade: it's the same attention to materials, moved from an instrument to something you carry with you.
For anyone who wants more than a guitar bought off the shelf, the workshop also teaches: guided, step-by-step courses to build with your own hands the guitar you'll play for years. Not a theory class — weeks spent side by side, tools in hand from day one.
And whoever builds these guitars is also the one who plays them on stage — a multi-instrumentalist who once toured the world, now performing live across Italy. Knowing an instrument from the wood up changes the way you play it — the same instinct, applied twice: first in the workshop, then on stage.