Italian-made / built to be played

The guitar that becomes your favorite.

The one you never want to put down — familiar the moment you touch it. Built slowly, voiced by ear, and finished with a lifetime of play already in its surface.

Made to orderBuilt in ItalyInsured worldwide
Red relic S-style guitar shown from the front and back

A familiar shape.
A different feeling.

The point of the work

A guitar should answer back.

Luke’s Guitars exists for the moment when a good instrument stops feeling like an object and starts feeling like a voice you already know.

Every build is made to order. No online shop, no production line — just an open conversation, a patient build, and the small decisions that make a guitar come alive.

Meet the people behind the feel

01 / The collections

Three ways into the obsession.

Classic silhouettes, personal decisions. Each one is built to be played hard, felt deeply, and remembered.

01 / Telecaster-style

T-Twangers™

€3,300 · built for bite and growl

A sharp, immediate voice with a little dirt under its fingernails. The one for attack, twang, and a band that needs you to cut through.

Explore T-Twangers

02 / Stratocaster-style

S-FuzzAxe™

€3,600 · made for funk and open mids

Three-dimensional cleans, open mids, and the kind of dynamic range that lets your hands do the talking.

Explore S-FuzzAxe

03 / One-off instruments

Masterbuilt

€4,500–€10,000 · no repeats

A singular instrument, built around a feeling rather than a catalogue. Rarer woods, bolder aging, and decisions that will not be made twice.

See this month’s one-off
Hand-wound single-coil pickup resting on a wooden workbench
Close detail of an aged sunburst guitar finish and tremolo bridge

Bench notes / sound first

02 / The craft

The difference is in the things you feel.

The spec sheet is only the beginning. The character comes from the choices made when no one is watching — and the patience to make them again until they are right.

Chosen by ear

Tonewoods selected for how they ring, not how they read on paper.

Matched to resonate

Neck and body listened to together before they become one instrument.

Shaped by hand

A neck refined until your thumb stops searching and starts playing.

Wound in-house

Pickups made here for air, attack, and the notes between the notes.

NitroAle finishes

Thin, expertly aged nitro layers that let the grain stay close and the instrument feel like it already has a history.

See the build in detail

03 / Masterbuilt of the month

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August 2026 / currently taking shape

One guitar. One month. No second version.

Each month Luke and Ale build a one-off Masterbuilt exactly as they like it — a free space for the woods, voice, and finish that have been on their minds. When it is finished, it goes to one player.

Ask to hear first
Front and back views of a hand-aged sunburst S-style guitar

04 / Stories from the workshop

The best part is what happens after the case opens.

A relic should not feel like a costume. It should feel like an instrument that has already travelled with you — smooth where your hand lands, honest where the wood shows through.

“Familiar the moment you touch it.”

The feeling we build toward, every time

Read the workshop journal

05 / Start a conversation

Tell us what you want to hear.

Everything is made to order. Share what you play, what you miss, and what you want to feel. We will reply personally, then build from there.

info@lukesguitars.com

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