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New Zealand based guitar brand
Langcaster Guitars is a New Zealand guitar brand founded by Dutchman Joh Lang. The Langcaster Guitar is distinctive for its unique prehistoric swamp kauri body and intricate patterns made from the roots of the native New Zealand Kauri tree. Carbon dating carried out by the scientists at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has found wood used in the guitar bodies to be more than 35,000 years old.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Langcaster Guitars is a New Zealand guitar brand founded by Dutchman Joh Lang.2
The first Langcaster guitar was handmade and crafted in 2000 by Amsterdam-born inventor and luthier Joh Lang. These guitars were further developed by Lang and his son in his home in West Auckland suburb, Titirangi in New Zealand on the fringes of the Waitākere Ranges native kauri forest.
From Wikipedia’s article on Langcaster Guitars, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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