Guitar
- Vintage & Rare Guitar Of The Week: 2012 Nick Page Gott 4 Paisley Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Gott 4 bass is an original design from Berlin's Nick Page Guitars, featuring a Swamp Ash body and American Maple neck and fingerboard. The design has some Rickenbacker influences, whilst the paisley finish must surely be...
- More Sketches
Here are a few models I re-sketched for a guitar design competition - the winner will have the selected model built by Berlin-based luthier Leo Lospennato. Of course I'd love to see one of these existing for real, in wood and metal... Music...
- Print Version Of Sustain
I just received the print version of the 1st issue of new luthiery magazine Sustain that had the good idea to publish an interview of yours truly as-a-guitar-maker - you can order it or download it for free on the website of the Fellowship...
- An Article In New Luthiery Magazine Sustain
This month I have the honor to have a few pages about my humble work in the first issue of Sustain, a new magazine published by the Fellowship of European Luthiers! You may remember that about one year ago, I posted about meeting Leo...
- More Sketches For The Baritone Project
you probably noticed this long pause in the guitar making - hence the new series of sketches posts... I'm still working on a dance and music performance that will happen next week and then I can go back to the workbench - including a few days...
Guitar
Meet Leo Lospennato
Yesterday I met up with Berlin-based Argentinian luthier Leo Lospennato, and it was a nice meeting. I first noticed Leo when I saw is book 'Electric Guitar & Bass Design' in Steward-MacDonald's catalogue, and I was very interested as it's quite an unique book!
The dominant opinion about guitar design being "we already have Les Pauls, Telecasters and Stratocasters, why invent anything more?", it's refreshing to find someone who made the effort to gather and share knowledge about guitar design, and proposes creative tools to expand it. Leo kindly offered me the book and I will avidly read it in the coming days - and probably review it here.
I was happy to discover on Leo's website that 1) he's living and working in Berlin and 2) he's giving guitar-making workshops, something that I'm willing to do to reach another level. Not that I want to become a pro guitar maker myself, but I still would like to collaborate with a luthier or a company to have some of my guitars built, and I need to master more the subject to do that. I still have to decide if I will take his workshop in Berlin over the next few months or go to France to have a 10-day intensive one next summer with luthier Xavier Petit, but during our one hour meeting, Leo gave already interesting insights about guitar design and building - a.o. how to vectorise my sketches to rework them on my computer in scale one.
- Vintage & Rare Guitar Of The Week: 2012 Nick Page Gott 4 Paisley Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Gott 4 bass is an original design from Berlin's Nick Page Guitars, featuring a Swamp Ash body and American Maple neck and fingerboard. The design has some Rickenbacker influences, whilst the paisley finish must surely be...
- More Sketches
Here are a few models I re-sketched for a guitar design competition - the winner will have the selected model built by Berlin-based luthier Leo Lospennato. Of course I'd love to see one of these existing for real, in wood and metal... Music...
- Print Version Of Sustain
I just received the print version of the 1st issue of new luthiery magazine Sustain that had the good idea to publish an interview of yours truly as-a-guitar-maker - you can order it or download it for free on the website of the Fellowship...
- An Article In New Luthiery Magazine Sustain
This month I have the honor to have a few pages about my humble work in the first issue of Sustain, a new magazine published by the Fellowship of European Luthiers! You may remember that about one year ago, I posted about meeting Leo...
- More Sketches For The Baritone Project
you probably noticed this long pause in the guitar making - hence the new series of sketches posts... I'm still working on a dance and music performance that will happen next week and then I can go back to the workbench - including a few days...