Musical instruments

Guitar

The guitar from the front, raw wood body and black hardware
Influences
Gibson ES-335,
Jacobacci guitars
Pickup
Humbucker
Nature
Handmade

This guitar is a stylistic exercise at the crossroads of two references: the Gibson ES-335, icon of the semi-hollow guitar, and Jacobacci guitars, made in Paris by a family of luthiers whose models stood out for their singular shapes.

The body borrows the two symmetrical horns of the ES-335, while its rounded, almost undulating curves and cut-away lower body recall the freedom of line of the Jacobacci models.

Close-up of the humbucker, bridge and tailpiece

The whole is deliberately pared back: a single pickup, a black bridge and tailpiece, and a solid wood body left raw to bring out the grain.

The back of the guitar and the neck plate
The body cut from glued-up boards
In the workshop — cutting the body
First test fit of the neck on the sanded body
Neck test fit

Contact

I am currently available for instrument design commissions.

Send me your project at araveleau.work@gmail.com

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