A little bit of history:

I first came in contact with the guitar when I was fourteen. A guitar teacher showed up in the town where I lived in Uruguay, and that's how I learned my first chords. Gitars have since been my passion.

I was in my teens and I had grown up in a house where the music available went from the renaissance to the late 1800s, so I figured the right thing to do was to switch immediately to electric guitar... It would be many years until I gave classical guitars a serious thought again.

The last years of highschool would be decissive in terms of me continuing with either science oriented studies or more artistic ones. Finally I chose art studies, and after my graduation I moved to Montevideo to attend University. I did so for several years and began studying History as well. At that point I decided I needed something else so I took a break from the School of Fine Arts and joined the National School of Arts and Crafts to study lutherie. It would be clear later on that this was my real interest - the profession where I could blend together my creativity and manual skills with my old interests in phisics, geometry and history.

I came to lutherie school in 1997, at the begining of its flourishing period. The new teacher, Maestro Juan Carlos Alves, had started the year before, and sice then have his dedicated and preseverant teachings made a big difference towards sharing information and experiences and demitifying the craft. For many of us, his ideas about the constant pursuit of improvement have proved vital and decissive.

Being a professional guitarist himself, Alves encouraged me to seriously study classical guitar technique and interpretation, and he started teaching me that same year. I studied with the methods of Abel Carlevaro and Eduardo Fernández (his former teacher) and found my way back to all that music that I had heard at home while growing up, and I loved it!

These studies were crucial because they created a bridge that united my understanding of woodworking and guitar phisics with a more clear picture of the music and musicians the guitar was being built for. I continued guitar studies with J.C. Alves until 2002.

After my graduation in 1999 I sat up a small workshop in my room and did the occasional repair work. I built some guitars in this period under the tutelage of my master. I also decided to assist the School of Construction and study furniture carpentry both as a means of making a living and to expand my knowledge and experience in woodworking.

At this point, and for many different reasons, I moved to Norway in 2002. I worked for more than a year with a construction company while I saved money and learned the language. I traveled back to Uruguay and picked up my tools. I then sat up a little workshop in my room in Oslo and began an experimental guitar production with the goal of establishing my own business.

In 2005 I opened my first shop and started a permanent work as a classical guitar luthier and repairman. In 2008 I moved the shop to it's current location in downtown Oslo.