Commissions
Begin your commission
Nothing here is in stock. Every instrument is claimed by one player before the first cut, and then it is drawn around that player.
Hold your place
at the bench
One instrument, one player, and a queue that moves slowly. A thousand euro is what puts you in it. Everything else is decided afterwards, with Bruno.
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€1,000
Deposit
The same on every instrument, whatever you end up commissioning.
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100%
Towards your instrument
Every euro comes off the price. It is the first part of the guitar, not a fee.
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Lifetime
Warranty and setup
From the hands that built it, for as long as the instrument is yours.
Card via Stripe, we never see your card details. Bank transfer on request.
What happens after you pay is written out below.
Where it really begins
The first thing that happens is not woodwork. It is a conversation.
As soon as the deposit lands, Jo writes to you and you set a time to talk. That call is where the instrument begins: what you play, what you keep reaching for and not finding, which model, which collection, which scale. Nothing is decided in a form.
Bruno joins when the choices become a build. Woods, pickup set, circuit, hardware, finish. He will ask what the instrument has to do on stage or in the room, then say what he would do about it. You are allowed to disagree with him, people do.
When everything is settled the specification is written down and closed, and only then is the wood chosen. That is the day the eight months start.
The deposit
It is €1,000, the same figure whatever you commission. It holds your place in the queue and every euro of it comes off the price: not a fee, not a booking charge, simply the first part of what you pay for the instrument.
The balance is settled once the specification is closed. Options beyond the base specification, a rarer top, a different pickup set, a bespoke finish, are priced during the call with Bruno and go with the balance.
What arrives straight after
A written order confirmation reaches you as soon as the payment goes through. It states the instrument, the base price, the deposit already paid, the balance and the terms that apply to it.
Read it before the call. Nothing is cut, and no wood is chosen, until the specification is closed and agreed: if something in the confirmation is not what you expected, that is the moment to say so.
Choose where to start
Come to the call with a direction, even a vague one. Each page explains the model and shows the collections it can be built in.
- Leonardo, the Baritone. Two independent outputs, guitar and bass at once. Scale 28″ or 30″.
- Marleo, the Bass. Passive, four, five or six strings, 32″ or 34″, fretted or fretless.
- Marlita, the P bass. Heir to the Amrita built with Michael League. Overwound Aguilar split coil, passive, woodworm alder, built only while that wood lasts.
- Tosca, the Guitar. Fully hollow body, fifty numbered instruments, in three woods.
Then, with Bruno: body construction, neck and fretboard woods, pickup set, circuit, bridge, radius, frets, finish. What sits outside the collections becomes a one off, drawn from the first sketch.
Where prices start
| Instrument | EUR | USD |
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| Officina, baritone or bass | €4,800 | $5,900 |
| Marlita, bass | €4,500 | $5,700 |
| Parato, baritone or bass | €5,500 | $6,900 |
| Art of Nature, baritone | €6,300 | $7,900 |
| Tosca, limited to fifty | €9,900 | $12,980 |
Base prices, with case, before options, shipping and any duties or local taxes where it is delivered. The €1,000 deposit comes off whichever one you choose.
From the bench to your hands
Eight months from the day the specification is closed, not from the day you reserve. Part of that time is simply waiting: wood has to acclimatise and finishes have to cure, and an instrument rushed through either stage will tell you about it for the rest of its life. The Tosca is a longer build and has its own schedule.
It leaves in a Bacci custom hardshell case, insured, and ships worldwide. Or you come and collect it in Pescia, and there is a version of that visit that lasts three days and ends with you finishing your own instrument by hand next to Bruno, the Bacci Experience. Either way Bruno plays it in and sets it up before it goes, and the setup service stays with it for life.
Not sure yet
Ask before you pay. It costs a message and it saves eight months of doubt. Write to jo@bacciguitars.com: tell us what you play, what you are missing and where in the world you are. If the answer is that a Bacci is not the right thing for you, you will get that answer too.
You can also try one first, at the dealers who stock them.
Now you know how it works
Take your place at the bench
A €1,000 deposit, a call with Jo, then eight months of decisions taken together. There is one queue and it moves slowly, which is the point.