2019 Rasmussen Model C, The Tree/Italian Spruce

About Rasmussen Guitars

Rasmussen Guitars is a solo shop in the rural southern Swedish village of Fastlycke, where Lars Rasmussen has been building steel-string acoustics full-time since 2006. The training arc is unusual and shows up in the work: an apprenticeship under Dana Bourgeois followed by time with Ervin Somogyi, fusing a bluegrass-flatpicker tradition with the fingerstyle-tonalist school. Players report that the resulting tone signature stays balanced between strong fundamental and clean overtone bloom in a way that works equally well under a pick or under fingers. Production is six to eight guitars per year, hand-built from master-grade alpine spruce that Lars selects in person from Swiss, Austrian, or Italian suppliers; the current wait stretches into late 2027. Models include the Model C (OM-equivalent), the smaller Model O, and the Model S. Carried by a small set of international boutique dealers and almost never available on the secondary market — owners tend to hold on.

About Dream Guitars

Dream Guitars sits in Asheville, North Carolina, in what may be the most photographed shop in the boutique acoustic world. Their inventory runs deep across the modern fingerstyle and bluegrass spectrum — Kostal, Bashkin, Goodall, Bourgeois, Pre-War, and many others — and the staff has earned a reputation for knowing each instrument in detail and matching buyers to the right one.

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