Eleven-year Guild member Simon Burgun makes and restores guitars. Hes the Best Maker in France. No kidding. He has a gold medal to prove it, presented to him by the President of the Republic.
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Recreating the Lacôte Veneered Neck
2025
AL#156 p.87
Simon Burgun
▪ Simon Burgun won French national recognition for his reproduction of a Rene LaCote Romantic guitar. Yes, my American friends; they really are that civilized over there on The Continent. In this article Simon shows how he made the rosewood-veneered neck with a grafted peghead and heel. See AL#154 for his article on reproducing the spectacular MOP-and-ebony rosette using period-appropriate machinists techniques.
Recreating the Lacote Pearl Rosette
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.