Stevens Guitars

Stevens Custom Guitars
Stevens Custom Guitars were founded in Munich, Germany, in 1993 by Stefan Zirnbauer and Werner Kozlik. The team in the workshop has grown since the start and includes apprentices amongst the workforce.

As well as Guitars they make Mandolins and in 2011 they started to make Ukuleles. At first the catalogue was a steel strung Concert Ukulele and a fretted or fretless Ukulele Bass but it has expanded now to include nylon strung Concert, Tenor and Baritone Ukuleles. In 2014 they exhibited a custom Soprano and Tenor Ukulele, but only the Tenor moved to the regular catalogue.

In making their Ukulele Basses they developed, in conjunction with Pyramid Strings, some special steel wound nylon core strings that are a lot thinner than the usual Ukulele Bass strings. This idea for strings has now become popular for use on other makers Ukulele Basses too, though it doesn't appear that either Pyramid or Stevens Custom Guitars have received much credit for this.