Comfortable, very personal and for everyday use. This is asked of the favorite jeans and this is what Marco asked me when he wanted me to build this tool for him. He wanted a blue guitar, inspired by the Les Paul shapes. Mahogany with a beautiful flamed maple top. The memory of the color and texture of the denim did the rest. Chambered mahogany body and custom PAF oriented pickup. Crackling and dynamic as we wanted them. Favorite jeans. Let’s play.

L'articolo DENIM proviene da Shank Instruments Milano: Chitarre, Bassi, Batterie.

  It was lying there on the workbench, just finished, when they told me it looked like a tanned Shakira coming out of the water of a beach at sunset. But it was not her, not Shakira. In fact, the Les Paul has the shape of a beautiful body and the colour of the walnut wood reminds of an amber-coloured skin. But it was not her. And I fell in love with it immediately, just for the way I had imagined it. Let’s play.

L'articolo NOT SHAKIRA proviene da Shank Instruments Milano: Chitarre, Bassi, Batterie.

 I got inspired by the “Black Beauty”…it just had to be chubbier, less refined and not elegant at all. Only a bit more pleasure loving and frank in its essence. That is how it was, imagining to find myself so hungry in a restaurant, so willing to stuff myself with the dish of the day conceding myself some license, that I thought only Luisona, a cook from New Orleans, could serve me a dish like that – the fattest and most greased one. I also clearly remember having burped at the end. Let’s play.

L'articolo LUISONA proviene da Shank Instruments Milano: Chitarre, Bassi, Batterie.

 I wanted it honey-coloured. This Les Paul had to be light, without sunburst and with a long scale. I had never seen any. I made it and it was honey-coloured. And like it happens with honey, everybody loved it straightaway, just like the unusual cypress of the body that nobody believed in. It was loved, eaten and tastefully digested. Just like its Fender scale, after all. Let’s play.

L'articolo HONEY proviene da Shank Instruments Milano: Chitarre, Bassi, Batterie.

   Gigi Cifarelli needs no introduction. Nor do his guitars, even less those who make them for him. Nor you need someone explaining you why this is his guitar. It is enough to tell you I am so happy and proud I made it. Simply for a new friend. Let’s play.

L'articolo GIGIA proviene da Shank Instruments Milano: Chitarre, Bassi, Batterie.