Mar 25, 2013

Saraswati Guitar


A semi-hollow body electric 21-string guitar. Imagine a seven string jazz guitar with added chikari and twelve sympathetic strings. It is designed by Wes Lambe and was conceived by guitarist Jay Manley.
There is a long lineage of sympathetic string guitars and sitar-esque guitars. This will hopefully be something fantastic and unique to add to the family. It is also a fruition of my dream to create a guitar better suited to perform Hindustani classical and light music without being strictly a slide guitar and retaining much of the standard tuning. Main strings are e b g d a e a and chikari will typically be a and e or d (Sa, Pa and Ma). It also can be tuned to all twelve keys or any  altered tunings.



Body Style: 
Custom
Body: 
Mahogany
Body Top: 
Mahogany
Neck: 
Mahogany
Fretboard: 
Ebony
Pickups: 
Lace Alumitone

More pictures of this guitar HERE

Mar 17, 2013

Lace Alumitone

The Next Generation Single Coil Guitar Pickup

The first modern guitar pickup from this century. Huge top and bottom end. Huge passive design. Cool looks. See what Jeff Lace, the Man himself, has to say about this wild departure from conventional pickup technology
 This radical departure from guitar pickup design is aluminum based, rather than copper. Result: less resistance, higher output coupled to a "current driven design" as opposed to conventional voltage based guitar pickups.

The aluminum water jet cut exoskeleton is then matted to a micro winding using 90% less fine copper wire, a low impedance/high impedance pickup is then created.


 taken from Lace pickups

Mar 8, 2013

Bri-Sonic



Red special as luthier Mark Smith see it 
You can find more pictures of this master peace  here 
Taken from TheGuitarSmith