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From Monza, in Italy’s industrial north, Emanuele Dubini reminds us that working with natural materials (for Emanuele everything from rare woods to Deer horn is fair game) can and does produce artefacts of unusual beauty.

Emanuele, whose company Zwart Plectrums, makes those mysterious little pieces of magic that guitarists use to transfer inspiration to instruments, otherwise known as plectrums. 

Like lucky charms, they have talismanic properties for musicians and often form a part of the magical triumvirate of mind, instrument and plectrum.

“A plectrum is an extension of a musicians hand and enables them to channel all their musical energy through this magical intermediary”

[Read more…] about ‘Meet the Maker’ #2 Plectrum maker Emanuele Dubini of Zwart Plectrums

In the world of Guitar manufacturing a quiet revolution has been happening. Just as it has with automatic watches and other labour intensive, hand-made creative products, the ‘maker’ has started to make a move into public consciousness.

Major manufacturers like Fender and Gibson are still producing 1000’s of guitars a year in various parts of the world, (like watches, country of manufacture is an important factor in ‘provenance’) but legions of small, and smaller, guitar manufacturers are making a move into a space that can be described, as the French do, as ‘Artisan’ (in a typically French take on culture there are special low tax breaks for ‘Artisans’).

[Read more…] about ‘Meet the Maker’ #1 Luthier Omer Deutsch of OD Guitars