April 2008 Most Popular Posts
Here are April 2008’s most popular articles. Did you miss any or forget to leave a comment?
- Forshage Guitar – Black and Beautiful – Another wonderful electric guitar from Chris Forshage with figured maple top and mahogany back.
- Lace Alumitone Pickups – This radically different pickup design results in pickups which are significantly lighter than conventional ones. I know of several guitar builds that are considering them so there’ll be more to come.
- Eric Olds Klein Electric Guitar Project – Part 2 – Eric Olds not only treats us to his Klein based electric guitar build featuring Alumitone pickups but provides us with several plan drawings which include the guitar body and his own headless tuning solution.
- Xavier Padilla’s Torzal Custom Electric Bass Guitar – This Little Guitar Works custom bass for Xavier Padilla features his Torzal Twist neck which is designed to reduce wrist flexion and reduce the potential for RSI.
- Canton Custom Guitars Design #2– Custom guitar maker Rick Canton treats us to an update on one of his electric guitar designs.
- The Forshage Hollow Body Electric Guitar – Chris Forshage’s ergonomic electric guitar continues to delight readers. This was our first coverage on his fine work and certainly not our last.
- The Orchid Bass Sprouts An Unusual Neck – The Toone Guitars Orchid bass guitar shows off sculpted curves, an ergonomic guitar body and an unusual trapezoidal profile guitar neck.
- Headless Guitar Parts Resources – A crowd favorite, this article focuses on commercially available as well as DIY headless guitar bridge systems.
- Make Your Own Headless Guitar Tuners! – Three different approaches to making your own headless guitar tuners. Very interesting stuff.
- Headless Guitar Bridge by Jon Bondy – A look at a replacement fixed bridge for the Steinberger R-trem, S-trem and Trans-trem tremolo bridges by machinist Jon Bondy.
It’s a shame how little there is to write about in the acoustic guitar realm. The Koll archtop is about the only thing I’ve seen that alters the body profile for the seated guitarist. The “MASH” guitar gets close too, but is really a thin body acoustic. And the Bardophone can’t be purchased, or so it seems.
Linda Manzer’s “Wedge” needs to be married with a Kleinesque lower bout profile and a headless tuning solution.
The curse of discovering ergonomic electric guitars is that it can spoil other instruments for you. My Martin HD-28, joyful box of song that it is, is now extremely uncomfortable to play. Maybe some of the readers who build guitars might start thinking…
Agreed Roger. I’d love to write more about acoustic guitars if only there were more on them. I’m looking forward to featuring the acoustic guitar Chris Forshage is building for you.
Meanwhile, I continue to keep my eyes open. I have an interesting lead or two but I like to touch base with the builders first and have yet to hear back.
Heh.
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