Guitar maker Simon Lee launched the cyclotron range of guitars in 2008. The cycltons have an innovative sandwich body contstruction. The front and back are aesthetic recycled plastic sheets, bolted together with an inner maple core.
Canadian guitar builder Alex Cisky started Zachary Handcrafted Guitars as a reaction to the mass-produced, machine-made instruments dominating the music stores. He reasoned that making guitars entirely by hand would give his guitars the human element consisting of irregularity, variability, inconsistency and soul.
The Westone Spectrum II had a solid alder body with a one piece maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. The nut was graphite. The scale length was 25.5 inches and it had 22 frets.
Westone made the Spectrum series between 1984 and 1990. The Spectrum series replaced the earlier Concord series.
The Westone brand began with the Japanese Matsumoku instrument manufacturers. Matsumoku started out in 1951 as a sewing machine maker but moved into electric guitar building in the 1960s. By the 1980s Matsumoku had gained a reputation as an important exporter of electric guitars, producing instruments for other brands such as Aria, Epiphone, Vantage and Vox.
The Siegmund Suspense is a hollow-body electric guitar. Chris Siegmund designed the Suspense to reduce feedback problems often associated with amplified hollow bodied guitars. The Suspense has floating braces suspended inside a hollow body which support the wrap-around bridge (the bridge is not attached to the top like on most guitars).
The official "Melody Maker Reissue" was introduced in 2007. It is a reissue of the 1959 Melody Maker, with the same thin, solid mahogany body, and a one-piece solid mahogany neck with the traditional ’50s rounded profile and 22-fret rosewood fingerboard. The pickguard and electronics are period-correct, and the pickup is a special-design singlecoil.
Milwaukee Servoelectric Guitar is an ingenious experimental instrument. Individual servos for each string control the string tension, with a clever compensator wheel arrangement. The servos are powered by low cost home made amplifiers. The tension / frequency sensing circuit is a novel design incorporating a potentiometer and springs.
The Krundaal brandname was used on some guitars designed by Antonio Poli (1926 - 2001; nicknamed “Wandre” by his father) who was a luthier, artist and sculptor from Cavriago, Italy. The Krundaal models were manufactured by the Italian Davoli Krundaal company. Wandre also produced guitars under other brandnames.
The MCI Intertek brand was established by John Burkhead, and later aquired by Fred Gretsch. MCI Intertek guitars were budget low quality instruments, made in Japan between 1983 and 1985. Gene Fields worked on the research and development of MCI pedal steel guitars. Some players complained that the Saxon brand pickups used in these guitars were prone to microphonic feedback.
Bob Murrell combined his knowledge of guitars and electronics to invent the GuitOrgan. It is a hybrid electric guitar and organ. The strings and frets are wired into a circuit such that the organ notes play when the string is fretted. The organ section in a Guitorgan is a 6-note polyphonic circuit, which allows full guitar chords to be played.
EXLUSIVE GUITARS (yes without the 'C') is a brand founded by Italian luthier Galeazzo Frudua. Each Exlusive Guitar has final set-up and quality control in Italy. Current models include: the Alien (with JEM7VWH styling), the Black Death, the Shredder (with scalloped fingerboard), the single pickup Eruption, and the Fusion 5 and Super B5 basses.
Tuscany Guitars is a brand founded by Galeazzo Frudua, the Italian luthier behind Frudua Guitar Works. The brand was established to produce affordable replicas of rare vintage guitar models.
