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 [...]
Building the Ergonomic Guitar
Guitar Designs. Ergonomics. Guitar Making.
Making Electric Guitars That Won’t Break Your Back
Any guitar player suffering from musculoskeletal ailments such as back pain or Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) or a guitarist trying to practice prevention should consider the weight of his or her guitar. Whether it’s a production guitar or a custom guitar, a guitar maker or luthier can effectively build a light weight guitar using a [...]
T3Blogs.com Engages in Copyright Infringement
I’ve worked very hard on Building The Ergonomic Guitar spending countless hours researching guitar building and guitar design in the process of gleaning a better understanding of guitar ergonomics. As a consequence, I’m rather protective of the effort I’ve put into my blog. Yesterday, it came to my attention that Anders Rodland, of t3blogs.com, was [...]
Building The Ergonomic Guitar On The Net
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 [...]
PJ Doland’s Klein Electric Guitar Build
Reader PJ Doland recently completed a beautiful Klein Electric Guitar replica. PJ was inspired by Bill Frisell’s Nashville album which was recorded largely with a Klein. As you can see in the following images, the first time guitar builder did a marvelous job! For his electric guitar, PJ chose the following: 1. Swamp ash body [...]
The Dare Guitar Strap Now Available Through Planet Waves
The Planet Waves Dare Guitar Strap is designed to improve guitar playing ergonomics by distributing the weight of the instrument across both shoulders as seen here: Available for several years directly from designer Troy Dare, effective this month it is being distributed through major player D’Addario’s accessories arm – Planet Waves. This is a great [...]
Build Your Own Guitar – 10 Resources to Get Started
How do I get started in guitar building? Budding luthiers frequently ask this question while trying to piece together what’s needed. And while there’s a lot of information available, putting it all together can be daunting. What would be builders need are good general reference sources on how to build a guitar. To address this, [...]
The Lace Cybercaster Electric Guitar – A Guitar With A Twist
The Cybercaster electric guitar contains a subtle but significant improvement to fretting hand ergonomics – a 10.8 degree neck twist at its lowest fret which straightens out as you go up the neck. Similar in concept to the Xavier Padilla ergonomic bass guitar from Little Guitar Works, this twist reduces the amount of wrist flexion [...]
Building The Ergonomic Guitar Blog Version 2.0
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 [...]
Make Your Guitar More Ergonomic with The Lap-Strap
As Thomas Heck states in his article, A New ABC for Holding the Guitar: Aguado + Bassoonist strap = Comfort, “guitarists have wrestled for a long time with the question of how best to hold the guitar when one is seated.” The issue of how to best hold the guitar was a primary concern of [...]