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Carbon fiber and mahogany archtop hollow body instruments

Engineered materials. Balanced tone. Modern archtop design.

Engineered materials. Balanced tone. Modern archtop design.

Close-up of an electric guitar with a black textured body, wooden neck and fretboard, and chrome hardware.
Close-up of the back of an electric guitar with a wooden body and black carbon fiber pickguard.
A close-up of a modern electric bass guitar with a black carbon fiber finish, natural wood edges, four strings, and black control knobs.

MY STORY

A man sitting on a stage playing an electric guitar, with another guitar leaning against a chair nearby and a piano in the background.

from machines to music

After years of designing drones with precision and control, I found myself drawn to something less mechanical and more expressive.That shift led to building guitars where engineering meets raw sound and human feel.

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i designed drones.

then i designed this.

5 versions. 2½ years. A carbon fiber arched top nobody had tried.

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Two black electric guitars with wooden necks and silver tuning pegs leaning against an ornate dark wooden panel with intricate carvings.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The interface between the strings and the pickups is incredibly stiff – there's no plastic pickguard or pickup cover in the signal chain. That makes these bodies more 'lossless', they preserve more of your string's overtones. You can dial down the tone knob if the sound's too bright, but you can't brighten the tone of a muddy sounding body.

  • No, there is no center block connecting the top to the back. These are true hollow bodies.

  • The carbon top is much stiffer than the top of an acoustic guitar. The strings don't move the top the way they do on an acoustic, so the top doesn't so much amplify the sound of the strings as much as it reflects it. This is why these bodies have the articulation of a solid body despite their hollow construction.

  • Yes. Carbon fiber is used in F1 suspensions so it can definitely handle the minimal deflection from a whammy bar. The pitch change is less than a half step, so the top isn't flexing very much at all.

  • The f holes, aside from looking pretty, function to isolate the center of the top from the edges, to facilitate the whammy bar action. The bass doesn't have a whammy bar so it doesn't have f holes.

  • They're equivalent to semi hollow guitars like a 335.

  • The arch resists the massive downforce of the strings. The strings are anchored to the back, so a flat top would be bowed in by the strings. The arch, on the other hand, barely budges.

A closer look

Two black electric guitars with wooden necks and carbon fiber bodies, leaning against an ornate, dark, carved metal cabinet with detailed floral and scroll designs.
A young man with dark hair, wearing a navy shirt and light blue jeans, is sitting on stone steps playing a black electric bass guitar. The steps are part of a building with ornate stone carvings.
A young man sitting on outdoor stone steps, playing an electric bass guitar. He is dressed in a black shirt, light blue jeans, and brown boots, with a neutral background of stone walls.
Close-up of a person wearing denim jeans and grey sneakers, standing on a street, holding an electric bass guitar with a carbon fiber body and a natural wood neck.
A black electric bass guitar with a wooden neck rests against a decorative stone or metal sculpture featuring lion heads. The sculpture has a greenish patina and intricate detailing.
A young man with dark hair playing a guitar in a large, well-lit train station or similar public space with high arched ceilings and large windows.
A black and gray electric guitar with a semi-hollow body and f-holes is leaning against a stack of stone or concrete blocks with decorative carvings on the surface.
Two black electric guitars with wood necks leaning against an ornate, dark wooden, carved cabinet. The guitars have a modern design, with one featuring a single humbucker pickup and the other a single-coil pickup, both with metallic tuning pegs.
Young man playing an electric guitar on a city street with cars and tall buildings in the background.
Black electric bass guitar with a carbon fiber finish leaning against an ornate wooden wall with intricate carvings.