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Andreas Kraus - 2025-01 Double-Top

Details

Construction Year: 2025
Top: Spruce
Back and Sides: Indian rosewood
Soundboard Finish: Lacquer
Body Finish: Lacquer
Air Body Frequency: F
Scale (mm): 650
Weight (g): 1500
Strings: Knobloch - EDC 34.0
Condition: Mint
Case: Hiscox Pro II

Overview

This 2025 Andreas Kraus double top guitar combines a spruce soundboard with a Nomex core and Indian rosewood back and sides. Built by a Berlin luthier who studied with Dennis Tolz, it offers fast response, even balance, elegant trebles, and an airy fullness that gives its modern construction a distinctly traditional sense of colour.
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About the luthier

Andreas Kraus came to guitar making through a long personal relationship with the instrument. He has played guitar in various ensembles since the age of ten, and this practical musical background gradually led him toward questions of construction, repair, and sound. Around twenty years ago he built his first guitar, awakening a lasting passion for the craft. Alongside his own building, he gained experience repairing and restoring a wide range of plucked instruments, including work for a guitar shop in Berlin. After his first self taught instruments, Kraus deepened his knowledge through workshops with several makers, especially the Berlin luthier Dennis Tolz. In his workshop in Lichtenberg, he now builds both traditional guitars and double top instruments, drawing on a thoughtful dialogue between established methods and modern construction concepts.

About the guitar

This 2025 Andreas Kraus double top guitar has a spruce soundboard with a Nomex core, paired with Indian rosewood back and sides. Its visual character is one of quiet concentration rather than display, with an understated elegance that lets the construction and materials speak without ornamented excess. The musical result is strikingly immediate. The guitar has the quick ignition and carrying energy associated with a modern double top, yet its colour palette remains close to the sensibility of a traditional instrument. The trebles are elegant and finely drawn, the registers feel even from string to string, and the sound opens with an airy fullness rather than a hard edge. There is power here, but it is power with light inside it, shaped by colour, balance, and a fast response under the fingers. The influence of Dennis Tolz can be appreciated in the depth and projection of the voice, while Kraus’s own hand gives the instrument a personal clarity and a remarkably comfortable playing feel. It is a guitar that seems to meet the player quickly, offering modern responsiveness without losing the warmth and nuance of a more traditional tonal imagination.

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