design
Dr John Electric GuitarsI drew this unique model for a very demanding customer. This guitarist travels much, and was infuriated to recover these instruments completely destroyed when he recovered them from the compartments of the plane. So the goal was to create a very compact guitar he could take with him as a hand baggage, without any compromise with the length of tuning or the quality of the sound. The body is made from Bubinga, a very hard exotic wood, the neck from a two fold BirdEye Maple, an ebony touch with scale-up from the 13th case, Steinberger mechanics and Alembic Active Electronics with two microphones.
Next image: The original sketches.
the original sketches.
This is a reconstituted plan from the original sketches. It presents the research done to obtain a right balance between form and function, weight and use, aesthetic and dimensions.