French builders

[dblbass]

Hey... Do you guys know any builders in France by any chance?

[Gabeja15]

i spent the first six months of the year in La Rochelle and while i was there i came across a luthier who specialized in some amazing ash neck thoughs. It was at some street arts fair and unfortunatly i can't remember the name of the guy. See if can't find and luthiers based in La Rochelle, it's a very small city.

[renniw]

Ici : http://www.myspace.com/lutherietm

Ici : http://www.lairat.com/

Ici : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A2g_(luthier)

Ici : http://www.barrillon.eu/

Et là : http://www.laguitare.com/annuaire_lu...indexluth.php3

[pilotjones]

http://aquilinabasses.free.fr/

http://www.basses-lkah.com/

http://lutheriedac.free.fr/

http://www.dngguitares.com/

http://www.gougi.com/

http://www.instrument-lutherie.com/

http://www.kopo.fr/

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/leduc/

http://www.noguera-basses.com/

http://patrice-blanc.com/

http://www.vigierguitars.com/

[basste]

http://www.xavierpetit.com/xavier/index.php

[PasdaBeer]

wasnt JP basses a french builder? That guy has some seriously nice stuff

[renniw]

Originally Posted by PasdaBeer

wasnt JP basses a french builder? That guy has some seriously nice stuff

I don't think JP build basses anymore. His basses pop from time to time on the classifieds here tho...

[PasdaBeer]

yea i know he stopped. But man he did some nice stuff when he was building.

[newburyohio]

Lot of great French luthiers. I especially like Aguilina, Noguera and Lairat. They all make distinctive instruments that are beautiful and play and sound great. Lairat has a new bass posted here. I've got an Aguilina coming in a couple weeks. Can't wait. I'll post some pics.

[newburyohio]

Don't have the bass yet but there is a cool video here of Sebastien at NAMM 2011 talking about his basses, a Shelby and Richard Bona model.

[Musiclogic]

TB'er David Pinton is in France, and builds some beautiful stuff.