About Rawrawk
Built from frustration.
Driven by craftsmanship.
Rawrawk didn't begin with a business plan. It began with a question: why is it so hard to find guitar gear built exactly the way you think it should be?
Why it started
I have played guitar for most of my life, and over the years a lot of cabinets came and went. What became impossible to ignore was that the cabinet changed both the tone and the feel of the instrument more than I ever expected it to.
Most of my working life has been spent as an acoustics consultant, solving problems where precision and measurement decide whether something works or not. Once you have looked at a guitar cabinet through that lens, you cannot unsee it. Every product is a set of design decisions. Every material, dimension and finish either has a reason behind it, or it doesn't.
The more I looked for gear that met that standard, the more I found myself waiting for somebody else to build it. Eventually it was obvious that somebody would have to be me.
Design work began in 2024. Rawrawk was founded in February 2025.
Northern Portugal
Who builds it
It stopped being one person fairly quickly. Rawrawk is a family workshop in Northern Portugal: a garage with workbenches, a CNC, and a handful of people who happen to be related to each other. Not a factory, and not a brand putting its name on somebody else's boxes.
One of us designs and machines, one handles finishing, one keeps the business side upright, and when a batch is going out, whoever is around lends a hand.
Building here lets us work closely with local suppliers, keep control of quality, and support skilled trades. Anything leaving the workshop has to meet the standard we would expect if we were the ones buying it.
We will be honest about the scale: the workshop is still being refurbished as we go. We would rather show you the real bench than a flattering angle.
What we believe
Good design shouldn't shout.
It should simply work.
Thoughtful engineering
Clean industrial lines. Honest materials. Every product starts with a problem worth solving, then goes through sketching, measuring and refining until it feels right.
Independent, on purpose
We don't answer to investors or shareholders. We answer to musicians. That isn't a slogan, it's a practical difference: we can spend another month on a design rather than rushing it to market, and change something because a player told us it wasn't right.
Worth recommending
We want to be one of the names musicians quietly recommend, because they have felt the difference for themselves.
The Quasar was the start
The Quasar is where this began, not where it ends. Nebula followed with a related challenge: making pedal placement, mounting and cable routing work together in a board we would want to carry.
More is in development, including work alongside an electronics engineer here in Portugal. We would rather announce something when it is finished than when it is merely promising. If it needs another six months to be right, it gets another six months.
You don't have to take our word for how any of it sounds. A master luthier, a session player with hundreds of millions of streams behind him, and several independent gear reviewers have put the Quasar through its paces — in their own words, alongside the independent video reviews.
If something leaves the workshop carrying the Rawrawk name, it has earned it.
Thank you for being part of it.
— LuísFounder, Rawrawk