Robert Irizarry Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 Thought you folks might be interested in this headless hollowbody design by luthier Chris Forshage. I've been chatting with both Chris and future owner Marc of the jazz group The Marc Why Group about the guitar. Here is a pic of Chris' personal guitar: I recently wrote about the guitar - The Forshage Hollowbody Electric Guitar. In addition, Both Chris and Marc have been generous enough to provide me with pics and details of the various stages of the build which I'll be writing about in separate articles. Regards, Rob Quote Link to comment
fookgub Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 Chris' workshop is less than a mile from my house. I was over there a couple times about a year and a half ago, and he was nice enough to chat guitars with me and lay down some of his building philosophy. I got to play his 7-string for a little bit (I'm pretty sure it's the actual guitar in your picture), and it was a very nice guitar with lots of sounds and a great feel. He also showed me an archtop he was working on at the time, which was a truly stunning instrument. Anyway, thumbs up for Chris. Quote Link to comment
GregP Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 +1 As I mentioned on Robert's blog (won't repeat the whole thing), I got to meet Chris in Toronto when his band Ohn (http://www.letsgetitohn.com/) was playing the North-By-Northwest in Toronto. My g/f and I went to meet with Allison Scharf (the singer in much of the recent stuff), actually... and ended up seeing this cool guitar being played on stage. Of course, I had to ask Chris about it after the gig. I got to pluck a bit at it, and it was a well-cool guitar. Greg Quote Link to comment
verhoevenc Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 Can't wait to see your write up on some of the construction! Chris Quote Link to comment
Robert Irizarry Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 It's been very exciting chatting with Chris and Marc about this design. You can see the Klein and Teuffel influences and as you can tell by my avatar I'm something of a fan of the Klein shape. I'll give a heads up when the build stuff goes up. Regards, Robert Quote Link to comment
Robert Irizarry Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Update - I just put up an article on the guitar neck construction. It's the current article on the site. The guitar body construction will follow. Regards, Robert Quote Link to comment
capu Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Wow! I really like it! Very very very nice! Thought you folks might be interested in this headless hollowbody design by luthier Chris Forshage. I've been chatting with both Chris and future owner Marc of the jazz group The Marc Why Group about the guitar. Here is a pic of Chris' personal guitar: I recently wrote about the guitar - The Forshage Hollowbody Electric Guitar. In addition, Both Chris and Marc have been generous enough to provide me with pics and details of the various stages of the build which I'll be writing about in separate articles. Regards, Rob Quote Link to comment
Robert Irizarry Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Wow! I really like it! Very very very nice! I'm a big fan of the design. I love my Klein Electric based guitar but I think Chris has taken the whole ergonomic guitar design a step further with his work. Regards, Robert Quote Link to comment
Samba Pa Ti Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 i like the paintjob, not sure if its enhanced a bit by the camera flash (purple with a yellow center all bleeding together looks really cool) that gold bridge looks nice with the yellow as well Quote Link to comment
Robert Irizarry Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 i like the paintjob, not sure if its enhanced a bit by the camera flash (purple with a yellow center all bleeding together looks really cool) that gold bridge looks nice with the yellow as well I've seen a few images of it at this point and I think the image is a good representation. It is a pretty cool finish. :-) Regards, Robert Quote Link to comment
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