Guitar
- Leo Lospennato's New Book: Electric Guitar & Bass Making & Marketing
A few years ago I had the privilege to meet luthier Leo Lospennato in Berlin and to read his first book - Electric Guitar & Electric Bass Design, a book full of teachings and information about instruments design and conception that...
- Custom 77 Loaded Pickguards
A few months ago I posted about the fall of French guitar company Custom 77, who decided to end their business when they realised that they couldn't manage their own success without the support of any bank... As I hoped, they keep making...
- 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...
- More Sketches
hmm, what I feared happened: though I tried to stop thinking of guitar designs, couldn't help having my brain work and my fingers sketch some more guitars, and now I reach this last model, more ergonomic, more original, more pure, more radical......
Guitar
more sketches
I think that I reach something interesting again in these last drawings...
since this blog acquired more visibility, some friends asked me why I would give away my design research on the net, in this times of hysterical intellectual property...
well first of all I have much more ideas for guitars than I can ever build, and I doubt also that I can make really good guitars on my own before long, since I start from crap, with mainly good will and guitar playing experience... so visibility is good for me, and with the good feedback I start to have about my work, meeting partners to develop these projects feels not so unrealistic anymore... so if you are into guitar making but on the technical side, and need some design, feel free to contact me...
a last thing, I think that just someone serious about guitar making knows that these rough drawings are not so useful without the "vision" behind, and it would be much more productive to ask me to achieve the work than to steal the stuff...
well first of all I have much more ideas for guitars than I can ever build, and I doubt also that I can make really good guitars on my own before long, since I start from crap, with mainly good will and guitar playing experience... so visibility is good for me, and with the good feedback I start to have about my work, meeting partners to develop these projects feels not so unrealistic anymore... so if you are into guitar making but on the technical side, and need some design, feel free to contact me...
a last thing, I think that just someone serious about guitar making knows that these rough drawings are not so useful without the "vision" behind, and it would be much more productive to ask me to achieve the work than to steal the stuff...
- Leo Lospennato's New Book: Electric Guitar & Bass Making & Marketing
A few years ago I had the privilege to meet luthier Leo Lospennato in Berlin and to read his first book - Electric Guitar & Electric Bass Design, a book full of teachings and information about instruments design and conception that...
- Custom 77 Loaded Pickguards
A few months ago I posted about the fall of French guitar company Custom 77, who decided to end their business when they realised that they couldn't manage their own success without the support of any bank... As I hoped, they keep making...
- 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...
- More Sketches
hmm, what I feared happened: though I tried to stop thinking of guitar designs, couldn't help having my brain work and my fingers sketch some more guitars, and now I reach this last model, more ergonomic, more original, more pure, more radical......