I am part of the association, as it is our true chance to get guitar building back to our own culture. By being part of this community of great builders, we empower ourselves to focus on our roots of European guitar building, as well as to present the essence of this great culture in a unique show. As unique as our guitars are. Music is a language between gesture and speech. To build a "tool" to express this emotion at its best, and to maintain and foster this ability in Europe is the main goal of this association for me.

I've loved the EGB and its philosophy since its creation. Our community has been a great source of inspiration for me, as well as a place where to meet new friends, colleagues and great people in general. I think that it’s essential that we share our knowledge with each other and with whoever comes after us. I make classical, acoustic and electric guitars, and also mandolins and bouzoukis. I work mostly on commission which means that every instrument that I make is customized to each client. My goal with every instrument that leaves the workshop is to create a “tool” that responds to the musician in every aspect, where they can express themselves freely and completely.

In 1990 I started guitar building in Los Angeles. And as late as 2017 I finally competed my master of crafts in luthery in Austria. Along the way I met a lot of luthiers, freaks and techs, that helped me to get faster and better, without any tradeoff. As much as I benefited from the "sharing is caring" community of our craft, I want to give back my to the community. There are many lone-woolves in our craft. When we talk, duiscuss and help each other, it does not feel so caged in the own cave any more. EGB feels some kind of like home to me.

I’m building guitars for almost 25 years and running my company for more than 16 years, I ended up with my own designed series of instruments called SHOTO. This series contains electric guitars, basses, semi-acoustics and a new developed fully acoustic guitar for the future . Being an EGB member is a chance, a chance to make new friends, maintain networking and to enhance the art and craft of building fine instruments!

I build electric, semiacoustic and acoustic instruments exclusively by hand in my shop in Berlin, Neukölln. I take this work very seriously. After studying art for six years and playing and performing music for a decade, this is where I am at.

I growed up with any tools in my hands, my grandpa teached me how to use those tools to make creative works. The guitar passion did the rest. This beautiful job let me met some incredible traveling companions and the most of them are EGB Members.