Skrettas Handmade Guitars

My name is Skrettas Nikos. I was born and raised in Litochoro, Greece, at the foot of Mount Olympus.

From a young age I remember myself being among woods, tools and guitars. The reason was my father’s job as a carpenter  but also as a guitarist. Whenever I had the opportunity I was next to him, next to the tools and guitars. It was something that filled me a lot, that’s why at a relatively young age, I had learned to handle all the carpentry machines. At the same time my father  taught me the first notes on the guitar.

The first thing I learned to do on a guitar was replacing the strings. It was me the one who had taken over it on my father’s guitars. I was only 12 years old.

That was the time when I experimented to make my first guitar. The result was a colorful guitar-toy, that had fully met my childhood expectations.

In the following years, being already a carpenter  and playing the guitar every day, my desire to make a complete instrument was reborn.  The research for information had begun. After a lot of study, mostly in foreign literature, experimentation on my own guitars and contact with old instrument makers, I was ready to build my first electric guitar.

Having an innate flair for freehand drawing and painting, with a paper and a pencil, Skrettas Guitars were born…