Artisan lutherie
Electric guitars and basses, built by hand, one at a time.
Where to begin
The catalogue
8 families, none of them stock.
Genesis
Contemporary design
Atlas · Jewel · Maranello
Nemesis
High performance
Fenice · Wormhole
Ether
Six strings
Strato
Modern heritage
Modern · Classic · Thinline
Tele
Heritage, evolved
Modern · Classic · Thinline · Evo
Aeon
Mahogany and a set neck
Acheron · Elysium
Astra
Nylon strings, solid body
Eclisse
Basses
Low end
Polare · Blackhole · Pulsar 5
Where it comes from
Some stories begin with a man. Mine begins with a name.
My grandfather: wood → music.Me: music → wood.Two generations. Two opposite directions. One destination.
Choosing a De Gattis is not only choosing an instrument: you step into this story, and from then on it is yours too.
Read the story
Celebrity Edition
Two instruments that were never for sale.
A Modern Primitive sits in Steve Vai’s private collection, and he takes guitars from no one. A chestnut Gladiator with the helmet inlaid into the wood went to Russell Crowe.
Where they are now
In the hands of the people who play them.
Coming
Not only guitars.
There is a violin on the bench right now, and the first acoustics. This is not a statement of intent: the back you see here is flame maple, already carved. They go into the catalogue once they are finished and photographed, not before — a spec sheet without an instrument behind it is a list of promises.
Ask me how far along they are- Violins
- Acoustic guitars
- Classical guitars
In the workshop
Eleven seconds of the trade.
No editing, no music: wood on the bench and the hands working it. It is the only proof that counts, and it cannot be bought from a stock library.
Why it costs what it costs
No two instruments leave here alike.
Every guitar starts from a board chosen by hand and is worked by one person, from the drawing to the delivery. There is no assembly line to keep busy, so there is no stock to clear: an instrument is built when someone wants it, and it takes the time it takes.
“I build them one at a time because it is the only way I know to answer for each one.”
Alberto De Gattis · Calabria
JournalA day with the instruments in handWhere they ended up
Twelve countries, five continents.
They all come out of the same workshop, in Calabria. This is the map of the places where someone is playing one.
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- Norway
- Sweden
- Germany
- Romania
- Russia
- United States
- Argentina
- Japan
- Vietnam
- Australia