{"product_id":"andreas-kraus-2025-01-double-top","title":"Andreas Kraus - 2025-01 Double-Top","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout the luthier\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAndreas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the guitar\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siccas Guitars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54085179408717,"sku":"KS17933","price":5873.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0765\/4011\/7325\/files\/andreas-kraus-2025-01-double-top-13.jpg?v=1781175473","url":"https:\/\/www.siccasguitars.com\/products\/andreas-kraus-2025-01-double-top","provider":"Siccas Guitars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}