Made to inspire

The ‘Canna Guitar’ is my approach to creating beautiful and avant-garde guitars that are a joy to look at and a joy to play.

The Canna guitar will make you stand out so you can captivate and entertain your audience like never before.

The biggest reward for me is to see great artists using my work to make true art.

Designing a better sound

In order to create the best sound possible, the Canna guitar was redesigned with a first principal mindset.

The innovative double-top construction is creating a much more flexible and lighter top which is giving unprecedented volume, sustain and attack while having a strong base and beautiful overtones.

The round Hempstone body reflects the sound-waves created by the top more efficiently creating more lively volume compared to a square one.

The Model M

The Model M is my medium sized body. It is suited for a wide range of applications.

It comes with a cutaway soundhole and a side soundport.

It’s a very compact feeling guitar with lots of power, but slightly less bass than the MD.

Modified Dreadnought – MD

Thee Canna MD not only has a bigger body than the Model M and therefore stronger bass response.

I redesigned the body shape to make the guitar better balanced and less round at the contact point to the player’s leg, which provides more grip and a more familiar playing experience while maintaining the slim feel of a roundback Canna guitar.

All in all it sits better, feels more like what people are used to and has a bigger sound with more low-end.

CannaJazz

Archtop guitar

This Archtop guitar has a top that isn’t carved, it’s laminated in my usual doubletop fashion utilizing a Nomex honeycomb layer in between two ~1mm spruce plates. This way the top becomes super light at about 100g.

Furthermore the fibers are following the curve and aren’t ‘cut’ which should give it (in theory) an even better stiffness to weight ratio.

The tailpiece design is inspired by Ken Parker and my Logo.
The bridge is also hollowed out in the middle, again, inspired by Ken Parker.
The Harry Häussel ‘FlatJazz’ Humbucker is mounted on two rails which allow it to be slided in and out all the way to the bridge.

Canna Classic Crossover

My interpretation of a classical Canna guitar.

It’s built on the same base like my steelstrings. So it has great accessability of the high frets.

Due to the solid frame construction it has exceptionally long sustain and a great attack.

I also have designed a ‘guitar lift’ made out of brass and leather to facilitate the classic 45° playing style.

CannaBass

The CannaBass brings the look, feel and sound of the CannaGuitar to the bassworld.

For those who want to explore the possibilities of an acoustic bass while having the feeling and playability of an electric.

CannaCaster

This is CannaCaster model is made with a hempstone covered body. The same material I use for my acoustics.

The idea behind the T-style layout is, so that you could just get the body from me and build your own custom CannaCaster!

Sopran

Concert

Tenor

Bariton

Who are the people involved ?

The Canna Guitar is created in cooperation with Norbert Schmid from drumparam