STATEMENT

Its been a rough 2 weeks but a visit with Claudio and Claudia makes it all worth it. The Pagelli’s are leaders in guitar designs and I always have a good laugh in their company. Of course, Im always speechless when they break out their resent works of musical...
KILLBILL 2017

KILLBILL 2017

It was a pleasure to create a guitar for Billy Gibbons from ZZTOP. The only requirements he made were light weight and neck dimensions. In everything else, he left us a free hand and just wanted to be surprised. The photo where he sees the guitar for the first...

THE WOOD

It all started with what is the most magical of discoveries for a guitar maker: a bunch of old, interesting wood. On his search for quality Mahogany wood for his guitars Portugese luthier Adriano Sergio discovered a pile of just that in the back of a warehouse. It...
CONVERTIBLE 2011

CONVERTIBLE 2011

OK, so this one is over the top: A GUITAR THAT CAN BE FOUR OR MORE GUITARS! Using removable top inserts, the Convertible can be configured as an acoustic, an electric, a resonator guitar, or a six-string banjo. In addition, a sitar bridge can be added to each insert,...
FEATURES 2009

FEATURES 2009

In the case of our Massari archtop, the innovative qualities of a combination of carefully considered features are greater than the sum of their parts. First, there’s the wood-on-wood tailpiece design, similar to those found on viola de gambas, which we feel offers...