Building the Ergonomic Guitar

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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.

Oud, sarod and guitar player Mustafa Stefan Dill performing “For Tagore” on the previously covered Canton Fretless Guitar.

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

Extended range bassist (and drummer) 05Ric dropped by a few days ago with a quick update on his previously featured custom ERB.

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.

After playing his Klein guitar replica, Eric Olds found he was no longer happy playing his Les Paul style Fernandez while seated. So he set out to find an alternative while he worked on the Klein’s finish.