Paul Masvidal
Posted by ola_strandberg on May 21, 2013
Photo © Chapter 9 Photography We are very proud to announce our relationship with Paul Masvidal as a .strandberg* signature artist! Best known for fronting the critically acclaimed progressive rock group Cynic, Paul Masvidal is a renowned guitarist, songwriter, composer and international touring artist. Masvidal’s professional recording career began in...
Read More#28 – Fred Brum
Posted by ola_strandberg on Apr 23, 2013
.strandberg* artist extraordinaire Fred Brum was the original owner of #6, with which a considerable amount of the cleans of his amazing album Atonement (buy it!) was recorded. Fred was fortunate to be able to pick out his top directly from the wood supplier by himself at MusikMesse Frankfurt 2012 and then endure the long wait until the guitar was completed in...
Read More#36 – Allan Holdsworth
Posted by ola_strandberg on Feb 1, 2013
Few would argue the fact that Allan Holdsworth is one of the most influential guitarists ever, regardless of genre. Fact is, he got me into building guitars in the first place. In a Guitar Player Magazine article from December 1982, he described how he had gotten a guitar made out of Jelutong by Grover Jackson at Charvel. I had just completed turning a bowl made...
Read More#24 – Masatoshi Ohata
Posted by ola_strandberg on Dec 16, 2012
#24 is modelled very closely after #3, which Masatoshi Ohata had tested at the Tokyo clinic in 2011. Whereas #3 was a prototype built from scrap materials using experimental techniques, #24 utilizes tried construction methods and carefully selected materials to offer an extremely light-weight guitar with a “woody” tone and quick response. Like many...
Read More#21 – Brandon Montgomery
Posted by ola_strandberg on Dec 5, 2012
Brandon was pretty clear on day 1 after having received #7 that he wanted one more, and reserved the slot for #21 right there and then. There are some subtle specification changes from #7, namely that it is a bolt-on construction and that the body is solid and constructed from a heavier piece of Black Limba, for a meatier tone. The scale length is also slightly...
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