The Illusionists
When did Kauffmann’s Guitar Store start making its own-brand guitars?
“Albert [Deinum, Kauffmann Guitars owner] started building guitars around 2014. He was always tinkering with guitars and he had the guitar store by that time, but he wasn’t always busy so he started to use the spare hours to build his own guitars. He built a couple of them and people bought them, so he built some more – and that’s how it started.”
Those were primarily T- and S-style guitars. When did you consider doing your own design?
“Dennis Fano is a huge inspiration to us and we borrowed from [the look of] early Rickenbacker models”
“I think we started off with the whole idea about three years ago: why not try to create an all-original model? We had some ideas for an offset model – we actually
