Building the Ergonomic Guitar

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Having seen an introduction to the Forshage Hollow Body electric guitar and then pictures showing Chris’ approach to making the Forshage guitar neck, it’s now time to turn to the details of the guitar body. Let’s start with a look at the top and back pieces that will soon transform into the guitar body. The […]

As promised, in my previous Forshage guitar article, here is the first installment in the making of the headless Forshage guitar. We’ll start with the guitar neck which is comprised of maple with an ebony fingerboard: One of the first things you’ll note is the laminate neck construction. Chris explains his approach: I laminate 4 […]

Along side a range of archtop and hollow body guitars, Texas luthier Chris Forshage of Forshage Custom Instruments builds an exciting hollow body electric guitar that takes ergonomics seriously. Chris came up with the idea for his ergonomic guitar after trying a Klein Electric Guitar. As Chris puts it, he “played one and really liked […]

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 […]

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An acoustic electric guitar design by Jerome Barde, the Bardophone is one of the most outstanding examples of guitar design for ergonomics. Where many other guitar builders have taken only small evolutionary steps, Jerome starts with a clean slate “reconsidering the whole concept of the guitar body (proportion, volumes, shapes, balance, angle) and by looking […]