Builder

Rasmussen Guitars

SE · Founded 2006 · by Lars Rasmussen

Apprenticed under Dana Bourgeois — The Bourgeois line · Studied with Ervin Somogyi after the Bourgeois apprenticeship — The Somogyi school

Rasmussen Guitars is a solo shop in the rural southern Swedish village of Fastlycke, where Lars Rasmussen has been building steel-string acoustics full-time since 2006. The training arc is unusual and shows up in the work: an apprenticeship under Dana Bourgeois followed by time with Ervin Somogyi, fusing a bluegrass-flatpicker tradition with the fingerstyle-tonalist school. Players report that the resulting tone signature stays balanced between strong fundamental and clean overtone bloom in a way that works equally well under a pick or under fingers. Production is six to eight guitars per year, hand-built from master-grade alpine spruce that Lars selects in person from Swiss, Austrian, or Italian suppliers; the current wait stretches into late 2027. Models include the Model C (OM-equivalent), the smaller Model O, and the Model S. Carried by a small set of international boutique dealers and almost never available on the secondary market — owners tend to hold on.