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Liikanen guitars, full-time professional production began in 1986. Today, the guitars are
built by experienced luthiers in Helsinki.
 
 

 
 
 
 
Kauko Liikanen the founder of the workshop has built guitars for more than 30 years. In his earlier career he spent 10 years in a sound and vibration laboratory. He followed studies in classical guitar music as well.
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
Keijo Liikanen became partner in 1990. He earlier had a career in in the telecommunication industry. Beside on making guitars he manages the supplying of raw materials and handles administrative matters.
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
Uwe Florath graduated as a diplom guitarist at the Musikhochschule Köln in Germany worked as a guitar teacher at the University of Helsinki before he started building guitars. Together with Kauko Liikanen he developed a new soundboard construction, the unique “Lens Resonance System®”


 
 
 
 
 
 
Babak Reza an Iranian luthier, started to work in our workshop 2005.