Mathias Lerche's photo album from the Copenhagen Guitar Show 2012

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Overview at the fair

Mathias writes: I thought I would drop you a few lines about Copenhagen guitar show that was this weekend (6-7 October). I had a stand with the few guitars I have and decided to take pictures of the other builders at the fair.

Overview at the fair

MAGMA (that would be my stand, and yes that's beer under the table)

My nice neighbors at the fair, Sanden Guitars of Sweden, with a fanned fret and true temperament models. Yum!

Legendary Danish builder and repairman Denis Dalsgaard responsible for all the wacky basses for Stig Pedersen of D-A-D

Buffing up an old slanted fret acoustic built for a handicapped guy

Skilled builder and shredder Donovan of Librium Guitars looking mean with a beret (he's not really)

Peder Pedersen and son Kim of PP-Guitars (that's the father on the right). They know how to utilize a CNC router.

PP-Guitars

Schloff Guitars

Michael Schillhof (I believe) of German Schloff Guitars showing off some smooth transitions.

Master builder Ole Kehlet...

...and a closeup of his top of the line model. Around 120000 Danish Kroner (about 16000 Euro) if I remember correctly. Drool...

My personal favorite at the fair: Le Fay Basses of Germany. Cool design, workmanship and great attention to detail.
Meik Dobbratz and his brother even do all the hardware themselves.

Le Fay Basses: Closeup of fanned fret ...

... and steel fingerboard-fretless models.

The horror...

A funky GUS guitar ...

...which shares a jack plug feature with mine

A Mayones with an interesting finish. Deep grooves dyed red and nicely bound.

Lastly, spot the guitar hero!

All for now, take care.

Mathias

I would like to thank Mathias for generously sharing his Copenhagen Guitar Show photos with us exclusively at Guitarz. G L Wilson

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Another guitar from Mathias Lerche, this time it's a beauty in Wenge

guitarz.blogspot.com:

Hi Gavin

Thanks a lot for you post on my alu and walnut guitars back in December. I really enjoyed the feedback from you and the few comments that followed.

I've just finished the third edition in wenge (one of 4) and I hope it's worthy of a second post.

The whole shape has been scaled up slightly and a lot of attention has been given to the back to make it more coherent and smooth. The head has been added some facets and the tuning gears changed. The neck is fastened with machine bolts keeping the strap holder on the top right one. On the front the bridge and pick up have been countersunk to be flush with the surface of the guitar. The sustainer was difficult to add but I managed to fit in two batteries in the electronics compartment that also holds volume, sustainer mode and coil tap pots.

Still enjoy your blog daily!

All the best

Mathias Lerche

[More photos in the comments - G L Wilson]

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Mathias Lerche's aluminium and walnut bodied guitars

guitarz.blogspot.com:

Mathias Lerche, an industrial designer from Denmark, has emailed with photos of guitars he has created. He says:

"I have been working on a guitar concept for some years now and I'm currently building third generation of my design. This is the first two prototypes. I plan to produce these in the near future as a side business to my industrial designing. Starting slow and safe...

"The first prototype was made while studying at the Danish Design school, drawing layout and sculpting foam for months to get the a working shape. It was carved from a 22kg piece of aluminum(my cheapest option at the time) down to about 2,3kg. A terrible waste, but the idea was that the production model should be moulded and a bit more exiting than the usual routed flat alu guitars seen. It has a warmoth wenge/ebony neck, two slide-able Lace humbuckers, and two series/parallel switches at the back."

"The second is a one piece walnut body, CNC routed from a 3D model made in Studiotools and Solidworks. It has a walnut/ebony neck, Kahler trem, Kent Armstron and Seymour Duncan pickups, and one series/parallel switch at the back. It's a slightly larger and rounder body than the alu-version.

"My goal was to make a unique signature shape. I wanted it to be sculptural, to relate to the body of the player and, like classical instruments, have a female waist line.

"As you can imagine, the guitars are quite different sonically!

I'll keep you updated. The new ones should be done quite soon."

Thanks Mathias! I love these designs, particularly the aluminium-bodied guitar. I like how it's a case of form follows function and how the back is carved out and the space between the pickups. It is utilitarian, ergonomic and classy all at the same time. It's good also to see how well the design translates to the walnut-bodied guitar.

G L Wilson

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