by pagelli | Juli 20, 2023 | Custom Made
The BOWtop guitar, a combination between a flattop and an archtop guitar, is a completely new guitar construction. It is driven like an archtop, but top and back are not carved, they are bowed. Like that you get the ultra-fast response of an archtop guitar, but with a...
by pagelli | Juni 8, 2023 | Custom Made
Pius Truffer is the owner of the world-renowned Truffer Natural Stone Quarry in Vals, Switzerland, and he asked us whether we could build a guitar using «his» stone. Initially, the conversation was about an electric guitar, but after talking with Pius, it became clear...
by pagelli | Apr. 8, 2023 | Custom Made
This is our original MASSARI! To have a client like famed Swiss architect Res Knuchel is simply a piece of luck. As someone who appreciates beauty and whose job requires an open mindedness toward the new, he collaborated on the blueprint for what became our MASSARI...
by pagelli | März 18, 2023 | Custom Made
Acoustic basses have a tendency to sound thin, often lacking volume and low-end. The logical solution is to make them very big, but what else can be done? That was the question leading us to the construction of this instrument. We knew we needed a large top surface to...
by pagelli | Feb. 18, 2023 | Custom Made
A player like Vieng only exists once – who elese would play a guitar strung with strings as heavy as those on a bass? While Vieng’s sound is fatter than anything you’ve ever heard coming from a guitar, he was getting tired of the enormous string tension wearing...
