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My guitar model ”Arbolito” is the fusion between an electric guitar and my roots in acoustic blues and Hawaiian jazz.

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I have always admired the look of old Hawaiian ukuleles and Weissenborn guitars.

I got hooked early on by Ry Cooder (and his Coodercaster), Gabby Pahinui and Flaco Jimenez.

The Chicken Skin album has become the reference both musically and aesthetically.
I decided to melt all my influences together, to make an electric guitar I'd like myself,

being an acoustic folk/hawaii/blues fingerpicker.


This is simply how my Swedish brain processed the sounds and images of places I've been and dreams i dreamt, Texmex, Hawaiian, sandblasted, sunbleached paint and wood left on the beach with cigarbuts and seashells, the smell of humidity and lemon/chlorine in the hotel room.. and so on…

Tech specs:

  • The total length: 37,24in (946mm)

  • Nutwidth 1 3/4” (43,5-44mm)

  • Spacing at bridge 2 3/16” (55mm)

  • Scale length 24 3/4”

  • Body: Magic Wood (Europe)

  • Neck: Birch (Finland)

  • Fretboard: Oak (Europe)

  • Trussrod: double action

  • 21 fret neck (14 frets to upper bout)

  • Pickups: Seven Engineering plus a hidden Piezo pickup to dial in some extra wood

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