Building the Ergonomic Guitar

Website updates and related info.

The ongoing struggles of Klein Electric Guitars appear to continue with this latest bit of news from their site. Since yesterday, the home of this ergonomic guitar site is down with only this to be seen: According to the message provided by web host provider Bluehost, There is no website configured at this address. You [...]

With Building the Ergonomic Guitar running smoothly at my new web host Bluehost, it’s a good time to kick off a new series where I’ll round up and share the five most popular articles of each month. I thought it would be interesting to see what folks are reading so without further ado, here are [...]

Please take a moment to welcome Nathan and Simon Willis of Guitar Parts Central to Building the Ergonomic Guitar. A family owned business with a 100% feedback rating on eBay, Guitar Parts Central is an online guitar parts retailer that is also expanding to provide luthier tools to the guitar making community. Among these tools [...]

Welcome! Building the Ergonomic Guitar is now on its own hosted domain at http://buildingtheergonomicguitar.com! Please take a moment to update your bookmarks to reflect the change. Email subscribers need not take action – your subscription has been updated and you should start receiving updates with this post. With the move to the WordPress blogging engine, [...]

Building The Ergonomic Guitar Blog, with its focus on guitar building and guitar design in service of human factors, officially turned a year old on March 1rst! It’s a belated birthday for my guitar blog but better late than never. It’s been a very exciting year for me on many levels. Making an electric guitar [...]

The electric guitar, as evidenced by its two greatest icons, the Stratocaster and the Les Paul, has essentially remained frozen in time. Both guitars date back to the fifties. Meanwhile, despite a growing understanding of how the body works, guitarists have continued to suffer with a variety of ailments related to their art. Building The [...]

With guitar build #1 almost complete and the new Blogger functionality out of beta, the time is right to make a number of changes and improvements to the blog format. I have Blogcrowds to thank for the base template I’ve now heavily modified. The most obvious change is the new look of the blog. In [...]

Klein Electric Guitars may not be long for this world. Yesterday, a participant of the Klein Electric Guitars Yahoo Group reported finding a note on the site stating the following: “Note: Klein Electric Guitars is no longer taking new orders at this time.” This screenshot confirms this: According to reports on the group, Klein Electric [...]

Following Actoguitar.com’s misuse of my blog content (see my post Actoguitar.com is lifting my Content without Permission!), its misrepresentation of my content’s source as a fictitious participant on their forum and their misdirection of traffic away from my blog, I felt I had to make several changes to the site in order to better protect [...]

Finally, I’m well enough to look toward resuming my electric guitar build project. As I noted in my post Dealing With Repetitive Strain Injury…, I had been suffering from RSI or Repetitive Strain Injury. Unfortunately, the situation got worse before it got better. Fortunately, it did get better from a combination of rest, reduced activity, [...]