Linking passions...

We think we can choose but we finally have to decide. A life path can however reveal unexpected encounters. Then just a few years earlier I have been involved in a "53 feet Scorpion" sailboat restoration. In addition to the respect that this ship imposed I was suddenly felling so incompetent being faced to such an unknown universe: this world of navigation was retaining much of its mystery and complexity than everything I thought I could control at the moment. I have been privileged to get my first sailing moments on this majestic ketch in the Mediterranean Sea... under a force seven wind! By the sea everything is different, our usual references turn unnecessary and futile, our perception, everything changes and seems to put you facing yourself. Then I left back to my guitar works following her long travel through the Atlantic Ocean, I was back to my world...

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... From this time I was haunted by an unanswered question: how could I still keep "The one you'll call She" as my motto, this feminine personification usually given to a boat, and never attempt to connect these two worlds?
It all started by an afternoon in last June while receiving a new project proposal. As usually I was getting a first-hand look through a quick scrolling to various shapes and the range of finishes included in this proposal until I focused on one: an ordinary picture showing a guitar painted in a blue colour that was reminding some visions of horizon. This was, "she" was...

Anyway the Nautik® series are not only a product design study or even a simple relooking of the "surf" style under a nautical cover; No. These instruments are a real transposition of a set of constraints and technological solutions of the nautical world to the guitar building processes for sounding and mechanical improvements.
Then the "Sailor" offers the look and refinements of the beautiful pleasure boats: its solid teak deck is built under the same process to give the same soft and warm finish. Classic but also modern with extruded carbon neck reinforcements and its "Hannes" injected carbon bridge both providing a well defined bright clear sound, however she can pride about her reasonable average weight of 5.8 lbs.
Sophisticated blend of wood, carbon, aluminium and even titanium, this feather of 5.3 lbs. called "Skipper" offers all the sensations of a real racing machine. As the Ocean's sport boats from witch she has been inspired, her light weight and mechanical rigidity give an absolutely amazing dynamic sound and a strong well balanced sustain. Despite an assumed sobriety, she's an highly efficient tool.
The "Scorpion" keeps most of the Sailor's characteristics but dressed upon the colour chart of the boat that gave me this knowledge and unleashed this different vision without which the Nautik® series would have not been created.
The Nautik® series come with Lace® Alumitone pickups as a standard feature, mostly appreciated for their light weight but also well known for their accurate clear sound.

 

Model shown: Nautik® versions "Sailor" / "Skipper" / "Scorpion"

Global characteristics "Skipper":

• Hollow body - Black or silver 3K carbon deck
• Mahogany neck, 22 frets sonokeling wood fingerboard, 24.90 scale, compound radius
• Gotoh® "Stealth Keys" tuners
• Pickups (standard feat.): Lace® Alumitone P-90
• Standard colours (Graphite aspect as standard - Optional gloss): Black, white, steel grey, dark blue, Swedish red (Falun)

Caractéristiques globales "Sailor":

• Hollow body - Solid teak deck with ferns lines
• Mahogany neck, 22 frets rosewood fingerboard, 24.90 scale, compound radius
• Gotoh® "Magnum Lock" tuners
• Pickups (standard feat.): Lace® Alumitone humbuckers
• Standard colours (Standard gloss - Optional graphite aspect): White, black, steel grey, anthracite, dark blue, red...

Caractéristiques globales "Scorpion":

• Corps totalement évidé type "hollow", pont en teck massif avec lignage fougères
• Mahogany neck, 22 frets rosewood fingerboard, 24.90 scale, compound radius
• Grover® or Gotoh® "Magnum Lock" tuners
• Pickups (standard feat.): Lace® Alumitone
• Standard colours (gloss or graphite): Ultramarine blue, black