Alves de Puga

Alves de Puga

Also known as: Jean Louis Alves de Puga, Alves de Puga Guitars

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Alves de Puga is a French luthier workshop founded in 1999 by Jean Louis Alves de Puga, based in Orthez in the south-western corner of France. The workshop specializes in handcrafted Selmer-Maccaferri style guitars — the acoustic archtops commonly called Manouche or gypsy-jazz guitars, a tradition associated with Django Reinhardt.

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Alves de Puga is a French luthier workshop founded in 1999 by Jean Louis Alves de Puga, based in Orthez in the south-western corner of France. The workshop specializes in handcrafted Selmer-Maccaferri style guitars — the acoustic archtops commonly called Manouche or gypsy-jazz guitars, a tradition associated with Django Reinhardt.

Guitars are built one at a time with traditional tonewoods, typically pairing European spruce tops with walnut necks and ebony fingerboards, and rosewood, cocobolo or eucalyptus back and sides. The core catalog revolves around Selmer-derived models such as the DR 670 (offered in petite bouche, grande bouche and eucalyptus variants), the shorter-scale DR 640, and the SL 670. The workshop also builds the Spéciale Chorus, a nylon-string MCC model, ukuleles, and various one-off prototypes.

Instruments are sold directly from the workshop and through a small network of specialist dealers including Guitare Village in France, Gypsy Jazz Online in Australia, and DjangoBooks in the United States, where they are regularly traded alongside other hand-built gypsy-jazz guitars.

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