Langcaster Guitars & Pickups
Custom made guitars and Pickup-kitsets

Langcaster ™ guitars made from stunning 35,000 year old swamp Kauri,
are fitted with innovated technology guitar pickups & overdrive option, a worlds first !.
The Langcaster Anniversary guitar limited edition, See the Sales page link.

If you want a stunning looking body, want recording with clean pickup sound and no hum,
want the best sounding pickups in the world , Langcaster has it !

THE SECRET IS OUT !

Langcaster made the worlds first Lo-impedance pickups with overdrive built in!
NO ather Pickup sound better and is more versatile, see the videos.

Neck pickup first, Overdrive 2nd, Bridge Pickup.

Overdrive activated direct recorded in to the PC

Sean Clancy Playing a Langcaster guitar.

Kara Gordon Playing Guest for Elton John : click ..

Langcaster guitar pickups are NOW available as kitsets for Fender Ibanez and LesPaul type guitars.

Click on this photo to see the new Langcaster Pickups and Kitset website.

Listen to the sound tracks with Langcaster Pickups!

We designed a new head stock to celebrate 10 years of Langcaster guitars and pickups.
Only 30 will me made ever ! in Strat and Tele shape.
All are made with a fixed Schaller bridge, 2 or 3 pickups, all with overdrive built in.

NEW ! THE LANGCASTER GUITAR KORU SERIES.

The Koru series are fitted with Khaler fine tune brige & have a clasic shape neck with Paua shell inlay and locking tuners + the only guitar in the world witha sweet Overdrive and Gain control.

Click on the photo for a bigger image. See the sales page for what we have in stock at this time please.

Paua Shell inlay and Locking Machine heads Medium frets

The koru is the Maori name given to the new unfurling fern frond and symbolizes new life, growth, strength and peace. It is an integral symbol in Maori art carving in New Zealand.

Read reviews placed on Harmony-Central Guitar database

Sean Clancy Playing a stunning song from his CD

Guitar Ace Jan Akkerman(ex Focus) playing live on Dutch TV on his Langcaster guitar . See more videos on

A worlds first !

All Langcasters have standard overdrive with gain control and Lo-Impedance Pickups.

Guitar Ace Jan Akkerman with over 70 Lp's and Cd's to his name with Focus and many solo projects, is known for his taste of exquisite guitars

Jan Akkerman favored Lancaster for his Jimi Hendrix Tribute Tour together with an other guitar legend Steve Lukather of (TOTO).

Jan Akkerman motivated his choice for Langcaster as follows:

" For this Hendrix tour I had to play a Strat. I generally dislike Fenders but this Langcaster was something else. Good appearance with 35.000 years old Swamp Kauri wood, very appealing.
The feel of this Langcaster is good, and the hardware is of superb quality.

"Hi Joh, it is one of the most beautiful strat models I have ever played on"

Jan Akkerman.

See more photos and read what Jan Akkerman had to say,

The secret is out see Langcaster on wikileaks.net.nz

The only pickups in the world with Lo Impedance pickups and overdrive.

NOW ! YOU CAN PURCHASE A LANGCASTER LO-IMPEDANC GUITAR PICKUP KIT-SETS FOR STRAT and LP GUITARS !

Have the best sounding pickups on the planet! a must ! for recording.

SEE THE PICKUP/KITSET PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS.

Read the pickup ANTHOLOGY, all about the Ultimate low-impedance pickups .

Lo-impedance pickups means longgg cables and no loss of treble. It has the widest frequency range ever and a louder out put .
Only 100 Ohm resistance and not the usual +/- 8000 K you will find in other pickups. Push the switch and you have a great sweet sounding overdrive
with a volume pot to set the amount of gain. When the overdrive is activated a LED lights up in the switch plate when playing.



From 2006 Langcaster custom made guitars have a Carbon fiber cavity.

Carbon is conductive and strong as steel , many companies are to lazy to correctly  shield guitars.

 The switch plate has an LED and the rings round the pickups are hand made like the pickups.

 The Battery can be opened  from the back plate as it is in a compartment. The battery last +/- 8000 Hr.

Langcaster with Amber and Kauri gum the oldest wood ever used in a guitar ! 35000 years old.

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Classic carving pattern head stock

15" radius double action 2 way adjustable truss rods and is also reinforced with 2 graphite rods.

Ebony precision grind diamond finger board, 22 medium jumbo frets 0.48 tall & 0.95 wide & the Earvana nut is optional.

Hand made string trees with Jade or Paua inlay Schaller locking tuners.

Paua shell truss rod cover.

"Langcaster is, in every way, an outstanding and innovative guitar. Comparing it with any conventional guitar is like having a Volkswagen racing against a Ferrari."

"guitar journalist Cees Bakker from Guitar-Plus Magazine."

Click here for more photos, great sound samples, movies and the full test review, by guitar journalist Cees Bakker from Guitar-Plus Magazine.

No solid body guitar sounds better than the Langcaster.

"Don't believe me ?" SEE THIS MOVIE!

Read what the proud owners of the Langcaster guitars have to say !!!!

20th Century Guitar Magazine

Read the review in the Feb/March issue of 20th Century Guitar Magazine

ALSO, REVIEWS IN ...

**Dutch Magazine "Music Maker" names the langcaster as the Bentley of Guitars.**
**German Magazine "Gitarre & Bass" have seldom seen a guitar that special.**
**Sweden "Fuzz Magazine" Guitar Ace Jan Akkerman on 35000 year old stunning Langcaster guitar.**
**Dutch Magazine "Guitar Plus" Jan Akkerman writes "the most beautiful instrument you can imagine**
Rave reviews in many magazines	Langcaster the "Bentley" of guitars

( Click on the cover )

Langcaster Guitar Review in Gitarre&Bass Magazine, January 2004.

Europe's most respected and largest magazine!.

For us testers there is seldom the possibility to take something special under the loop.

Therefore my eyes flashed when they told me of a guitar, which shortly ago appeared in the joined short tour of strings acrobats Steve Lukather and Jan Akkerman made its striking appearance.

Langcaster on TV-1 and TV- 3 news !

One of the outstanding displays on the Music Expo .

See Joh lang on the 6 o'clock TV3 news with his guitars & the lightwave bass. QuickTime = 3Mb

The 6 o'clock news with the Langaster guitars

QuickTime = 5Mb

Not only was this the first display of New Zealand made guitars of stunning eye catching wood, but we also showed one of the first bass guitars that works on infrared light! The first to adopt the Lightwave systems optical technology in Australasia.


Dennis Doherty playing for TV-0ne on the Lightwave 5 sting bass at the Music Expo.	5-string LightWave optical system bass guitar with Piezo and MIDI options.

Langcaster Guitars & Pickups Custom made guitars and Pickup-kitsets

Langcaster ™ guitars made from stunning 35,000 year old swamp Kauri, are fitted with innovated technology guitar pickups & overdrive option, a worlds first !. The Langcaster Anniversary guitar limited edition, See the Sales page link.

If you want a stunning looking body, want recording with clean pickup sound and no hum, want the best sounding pickups in the world , Langcaster has it !