Casimi Guitars

The Casimi story starts in two places at once. " On lunch breaks he sketched what guitars could be if you started over from the form. Matthias Roux had taken a more direct path into building, apprenticing straight out of high school at Maingard Guitars in Cape Town and completing roughly 250 builds there alongside fellow Maingard luthier Colin Rock.

The Casimi story starts in two places at once. " On lunch breaks he sketched what guitars could be if you started over from the form. Matthias Roux had taken a more direct path into building, apprenticing straight out of high school at Maingard Guitars in Cape Town and completing roughly 250 builds there alongside fellow Maingard luthier Colin Rock. The two had known each other since childhood. When Roux and Rock began offering an evening guitar-building course at Maingard, Rice arrived with his sketchbook. The prototype that came out of those evenings — Rice's personal guitar, built with no commercial intention at all — became the C2S, and the C2S became the foundation for everything Casimi has built since.