2025
AL#154 p.18               
Simon Burgun                                                                                           

▪ One hundred and eighty-six years ago, before the emergence of the Spanish guitar, Europe was experiencing a mania for high-quality Romantic guitars. Rene LaCote, a leading French maker of the time, used elaborate and high-precision MOP-and-ebony ornaments that were supplied by a specialized shop. Some luthiers nowadays may enjoy the challenge of reproducing the astonishing rosette using modern CNC gear, but Simon Burgun has set himself the task of making them using traditional machinists’ techniques of the time, not to mention producing a gorgeous authentic reproduction of a LaCote guitar in which to inlay one.