Building the Ergonomic Guitar

Electric guitars by professional and amateur guitar builders.

An extended range prototype of an upcoming Tim Miller Model Guitar from builder Rick Canton.

Interchangeable tone wood soundboards meet electronic modeling in a vision of the future of guitar and other electric stringed instruments.

Guitar builder Aaron Andrews delivers a unique headless baritone guitar designed for playability and sonic variety.

The LBG Carbon Graphite Composite Guitar incorporates the Steinberger GL’s minimalist approach with a distinctive and dramatically lighter body.

Builder Rick Canton combines exotic spalted maple, purpleheart and Macassar ebony woods to interesting effect in this chambered electric guitar.

Rick Canton’s Mini Gordo Midi Guitar elicited requests for more on the travel friendly instrument’s sculpted guitar body. Here are additional pictures and feedback from its proud owner Stephen Barry.

Reader MCWAV shares not only his first guitar body build but an original shape of his own design – a bold decision for a first time builder.

Fast forward a few months and the ash body Forshage first seen in
Thinline Tele Meets Forshage Electric Guitar is complete. Let’s have a look.

Rick Canton follows up with a fretless version of the Equinox guitar with several interesting features.

Performing much of his live and studio work with the Roland VG-99 Processor System and Roland Guitar Synth, Stephen was looking for something different and found it in Mini Gordo.