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xiolaguitars

unique HANDMADE guitars

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2024

NORD guitars AB 

Xiola guitars is a brand within the NORD guitars company.

A family of guitarmakers designing & building unique  instruments on the island of Ekerö outside Stockholm Sweden.

NORD guitars was formed in 2023 and focuses on building unique designs for unique players.

Adding our personality in to the design and tone of our instruments is the key to our success

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MODELS

Guitar builds

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Blues 00-model

  • Lot's of special features in this guitar

  • Malaysian Blackwood back & sides, 
  • European spruce top with magical bearclaw
  • Flamed maple laminated neck
  • Ebony fingerboard with bearclawed fretmarks
  • Sculpted diamond heel
  • diamond bridge & volute
  • ebony headplate & slots
  • Tusq bridgebone & nut
  • Schaller tuners


Bearclaw 00

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  • BOX IN THE MAKING
  • Flamed maple back & sides, 
  • European spruce top

ARCHTOP 15"

Classical nylonstrinG

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Classic Nylonstring

Indian rosewood back & sides

European sprucetop

Ebony fretboard & bridge

Tusq bridgebone & nut

Schaller tuners

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Armbevel support

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Very special designed rosette paying tribute to waves. Maple, ebony & silver inlays

Wave rosette

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Malaysian Blackwood back & sides

Sculpted diamond heel

Diamond volute

Malaysian Blackwood backplate

BEARclaw 00

The makers

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- Fredrik Nord fredrik


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- viggo nord viggo

ARCHTOPS

archtop 

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Curved body done, bow 

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Archtop design flowing curves

work

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Carving the back in flamed maple

armbevel

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Black limba sides with armbevel support

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Archtop box

Archtop

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Modern guitar

tools

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Traditional steelstring

niadra

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"X" as in Xiola 🙂 sanding the radius

laser

bearclaw 00

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Malaysian Blackwood back

back

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Making the back joint 100%

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Wave pattern rosette in bulk ready to be cut

ROSETTE

CAD-plan

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created in Fusion 360 as a CAD drawing

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Inside the Modern guitar

interior design

reversed curfed lining

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Glueing reversed curfed lining on the archtop

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Drilling holes for the carving of the archtop

Carving