Are you ready to design the ax of your dreams? Unlike other DIY guitar making sources (which deal with woodworking, mostly) this book focuses on how to achieve astonishing looks, excellent playability and a killer sound. Written collaboratively with top luthiers from the U.S. and Europe, this inspiring book covers in depth each aspect of electric guitar design, plus topics not found on other sources, like: - How to design a classic, how to design a radical - Thousand-year wisdom applied on Stratocasters and Les Pauls - Secrets of sustain - How to create a well balancing guitar - Ergonomics -...

Sustain Magazine is a quarterly magazine published by the Fellowship of European Luthiers. Includes the latest research, workshop techniques, design, finishing, electronics, and everything related with stringed musical instruments.

Sustain Magazine is the premier magazine for luthiers, designers, and lovers of stringed musical instruments, with articles on research, design, techniques, books, movies, and everything else related to the world of lutherie.

Sustain Magazine is a magazine for luthiers (builders of stringed musical instruments).

Sustain Magazine is the leading European Magazine for luthiers, with focus in electric guitars and basses, techniques, research, news, exhibitions, art, and much more.

Do you keep jumping from hobby to hobby every few months? Are you still trapped in a bad job, one that has already run its course? The da Vinci Curse's "symptoms" are not pretty: contradictory interests, bursts of enthusiasm that soon fade, and the feeling that we are not really doing anything-at least not seriously. This happens to very particular people with many interests, talents and passions, people who feel that they still looking for one thing they can enjoy and excel at. There is hope, though: this book will help you find a specialized but heterogeneous profession-one that takes into...