One of the areas ripe for innovation on guitars is the basic body design — finding ways to uniquely define the sound hole while maximizing vibration. Offset sound holes as …
Victor Baker Headless Archtop
There are lots of different takes on the Klein Electric Guitar ergo design, and this one from Victor Baker is a nice one. The key innovation here are the tuning …
Sankey Tyger 2.0
The Tyger is an amazing multi-scale 7-string designed for multi-purpose use. It can do jazz, pop, rock, and djent metal with ease. It originally sported an ABM bridge with Graph-tech …
Pagelli Quartz Guitar
This is a unique guitar from Pagelli Guitars due to its material construction. The owner of a stone quarry wanted a guitar made out of Switzerland’s regional valser quartzite. Because a …
Pagelli Guitars
Claudio and Claudia Pagelli build custom guitars in Switzerland using bold designs and materials. Their design sense make it easy to visualize guitars as modern functional art. While their use …
Sakashta Noupaul
The Sakashta Noupaul is by no means a typical modern electric guitar. But it adds to the traditional Les Paul base with some nice features which bring the venerable Les …
Jens Ritter Porsch
Jens Ritter is a master luthier with a keen eye for designs which tantalize the senses. His Porsch design exemplifies this in so many ways. Note the beautiful curves, asymmetry, …
Sakashta Blackjack
The Sakashta Blackjack was made for jazz guitar legend, Pat Martino. It’s essentially a Style NY Version-R model, but with extra features for Pat. You can’t see it in the …
Glacier Spruce Acoustic
This is not really modern in terms of construction or design, but what makes it unique are the materials. It has a glacier spruce top. The spruce was recovered in …
Sakashta 7-String Archtop
This may be the only example of a Sakashta 7-string, and it’s an archtop no less. Owned and played by Mike Oria in the SF Bay Area, this is a …