7th Moon : “Disorder” Seven… Childhood, and what it has given to me… I called this guitar “Disorder”. January 2017. Electric guitar, P90 microphone (made by Hep Cats), Gotoh tuning machines. The neck is made of maple, the body is made of walnut wood. On the guitar’s body, from bottom…
6th Moon : “Direction Home” I dreamed of a palace made of wooden board in the trees I dreamed of the end of a path with the nice smell and taste of milk and honey I called this guitar « Direction Home »… November 2016, this sixth Moon is a…
5th Moon : “Impermanence” This instrument represents a key turning point in my 9 Moons project. Something big is taking shape, maybe something huge (!) with these 9 + … instruments (might mean 10)… Life is made of meetings and sometimes you happen to meet wonderful people. I will let…
4th Moon : “Bel” February 2016, this guitar is the fourth Moon, I called it “Bel”… To me, doubt is the emergency exit of my convictions. I swallow silence, I fill it up with noise, percussion and music. My silence has to be musical, it has to get the energy…
3rd Moon : “Tenue de soirée” November 2015, my third Moon: “Tenue de soirée” or “Dressed up”… Tenue de soirée: a wrong idea of classic and of its legacy, of what I thought I had seen of it or heard… Tenue de soirée: a movie (referring to a French movie)……
2nd Moon : “Variance” November 2015, my second Moon: “Variance”… Or why reversing some acoustic or even mechanical codes lead me to the same truths… Differences or variations can open new paths! This instrument is a ukulele: walnut tree, apricot tree, boxwood, maple, rosewood (I don’t remember which one), spruce…
1st Moon : “Lute and architecture…” October 2015, here’s my first Moon… I called it “Lute and architecture for a guitar”, as the relationship between both of them seems so close to me ! The video above shows a presentation of the first Moon made in the workshop, and Marc…
Flamenco Guitar Spruce top, cypress back and sides, walnut neck, whitebeam fingerboard, Pegheds pegs.
Medieval Guitar Nylon string lute guitar, Pegheds tuning pegs, Fishman affinity pickup. Different characteristics depending on the model: spruce top, back and sides in whitebeam, walnut or wavy walnut, maple neck, ebony or amaranth fingerboard, yew burl head veneer (1st model), blue guitar with wolf’s head (4th model, special order)…
Mano Jazz Guitar The first model of mano jazz guitar was presented as a premiere at the Issoudun festival in October 2014. I had wanted to make a jazz guitar for quite a few years but obviously without reproducing an existing model. I also noted that Mario Maccaferri was inspired…
