by pagelli | Juli 31, 2025 | Behind the Guitars
WHY OUR GUITAR LOOKS THE WAY IT DOES… PART I. In 1755, on November 1, a tragedy of unprecedented proportions occurred in Lisbon. An earthquake followed by a tsunami and a conflagration with thousands of deaths. Until today the worst natural disaster in Europe. This of...
by pagelli | Juli 31, 2025 | Behind the Guitars
WHY OUR GUITAR LOOKS THE WAY IT DOES… PART II.The roughly designed and archaic front is meant to represent the enormous destruction – earthquake and tsunami – and the fire-blackened wood the brute conflagration.The inlaid aluminium on the one hand is...
by pagelli | Juli 29, 2025 | Behind the Guitars
We invented the open head stock on our radical Gitane Nouveaux in 2005. As we found out later, it was not our invention… NS Basses and Floyd Rose used it years ago, and you will find them also on very old far east instruments. At least we introduced it on...
by pagelli | Juli 29, 2025 | Behind the Guitars
That guitar is an invention of us. There are flattops and there are archtops. What will happen when bowing a flattop and drive it like an archtop? Et voilà: The BOWtop Guitar! It’s driven like an archtop, but top and back are not carved, they are bowed. Like that you...
by pagelli | Juli 23, 2023 | Behind the Guitars
Even though it was conceived for DJ’s, we always thought that it would be amazing to have an Alesis Airfx processor built right into a guitar, where it could be used to controls its sounds. But we wouldn’t have been able to say whether doing so made any sense at all...
by pagelli | Juli 22, 2023 | Behind the Guitars
Even though we’ve only built two of these basses (and those aren’t even identical), this is one of our most famous designs. As such, the Golden Fretless bass has been featured in magazines around the world, and it has left a mark on the work of many other builders as...
