Building the Ergonomic Guitar

With July 2008 over, we’re now 4 months into Year 3 at BTEG. Things are going well with each month bringing an increasing numbers of repeat visitors.

But with all of the content on the site, what did readers find most engaging? The answer lies in the 10 most popular articles of July 2008. Go have a look!

• Canton Custom Guitars Ergo 2 Complete – Details on the lovely Canton Equinox electric guitar formerly known as “Ergo 2″.
• Guitar Forums – The topics contained within the newly founded guitar forums have attracted their fair share of traffic from all over. If you haven’t already, go introduce yourself and participate in this reader driven section of BTEG.
• Strandberg’s Floyd Rose Replacement Tremolo – Ola Strandberg’s light weight Floyd Rose drop in replacement attracted a lot of interest from the Google crowd. Not only is it Floyd Rose compatible and far lighter, it also works as a headless guitar bridge.
• Romano Zambon Guitar Build – Another guitar forum favorite, Romano not only shares his guitar build with us but the plan drawing for the instrument. Since then, he’s also shared his detailed drawing of the ABM headless bridge.
• Canton Klein Custom Electric Guitar – A look at the successful mating of Rick Canton’s Klein Guitar Body Upgrade and parts from a Steinberger GLB-2S.
• Xavier Padilla’s Torzal Custom Electric Bass Guitar – Several bass guitar forums linked to this cool ergo instrument designed with input from Xavier Padilla.
• The Orchid Bass Sprouts An Unusual Neck – Our first sighting of Rick Toone’s sculpted bass guitar and its trapezoidal profile neck.
• The Forshage Hollow Body Electric Guitar – Chris Forshage’s modern take on designing guitars for the human body.
• The Most Ergonomic Electric Guitar Ever? – A custom built Torzal Twist neck meets a genuine Klein electric guitar for what might be the most ergo guitar we’ve seen to date.
• Headless Guitar Parts Resources – Focusing primarily on headless guitar bridge solutions, this continuously updated resource is a favorite month in and month out.