Axefactory – News

I’ ve known Gae for several years, we met at one of the first music trade
shows I was attending with the by then newborn Axefactory. The passion,
curiosity and enthusiasm for all things guitar were so strong for us that you
could actually touch them.

It was definitely a lucky chance meeting that blessed me with a friend,
collaborator, excellent advisor and superb lead guitarist – all in one guy!

That period was when we made the GM model.

Gae has always had a very active role in this project, from choosing the woods
(honduras mahogany body, flamed maple neck, 24 frets ebony fretboard) to the
hardware (wilkinson sure claw, sperzel locking tuners) and finally the shape of
the body and Gibson old style back of the neck.

The success was immediately evident and Gae recorded his following cd,
instrumental treatment
with the resulting guitar.

During the last months we have re-styled that same guitar. After having been
put to good use for years on many Italian stages, a refit was much-needed.

Gae chose to go for a nitro sunburst finish, preferring lighter shades. We
performed a complete re-fret and swapped the two Seymour Duncans in favour of
more modern Mama pickups, a feature of all our instruments.

SRA Axefactory GM model

GM model

SRA Axefactory GM model back

My pat.: System for fixing the neck onto the body of stringed instruments United States Patent 5973242

Shaller sure claw

mama pickups and silver shield coat

double wafer 5 way switch

Gae Manfredini & Axefactory GM Model

What can I say... another mission accomplished!

See you soon Gae!

Why does music always have to be involved with money? And worse still why is there
always a mirage of money making or the idea that music should have a price?
And therefore a cost! But why should making music have a price?

And why pay to let one’ s music be heard by friends or perfect strangers on the other
side of the Earth if it truly is round?

When I take a break in between my jobs, sometimes often sometimes very rarely,I strum
the last instrument I’ ve built or repaired and the pleasure of playing and making
music is immediately back. And sometimes I’ ll stumble upon
a nice idea, a strange rythmic pattern or a catchy riff (all things I’ ll always keep
for myself, don’ t worry guys!).
But those ideas are priceless, not because they’ re particularly good but because
playing is first and foremost a passion.

My job is the best job in the world, it lets me get in touch with brilliant clients,
some of which have a surprising musical enthusiasm!

Music is above all passion and enthusiasm.

Music is priceless.

Letting one’ s music heard doesn’ t cost anything.

The results, often unpredictable, always repay of the energies spent.

Yes, I mean it, I’ m not going crazy. One of the guys I was telling you about made me
understand this.

He is a composer – musican – producer currently busy recording his second album.
His music can be downloaded for free thanks to the Creative Commons license he uses.

His first creative commons album came out in 2007 and was called “Drop
Alive”.

Thanks to the CC licence and to websites such as

Jamendo, Purevolume, Garageband, Download.com, Virb, Reverbnation, it can be listened to anywhere in the world.

“It’ s a trip that thanks to the net you can come to the attention of people who
live in Poland, Germany, the US,
Israel, Spain, France… especially if you consider that Drop Alive played something
like ten gigs -
all in Lombardy!”

And I want to add that his songs have been and are still used as soundtracks on the
web and on tv formats, obtaining positive reviews from web radios in various
countries
and is, needless to say, absolutely worth a listen (that goes without saying).

This is a concrete expression of passion for music.

Would a regular cd, with a superb content but all rights reserved, have gone that
far?

Think about it people, think…

See you soon Simon Act, I’m impatiently waiting for your next record.

See you next time.

Traslation by Simone Attivissimo

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Today we are butchering an original CHINESE MADE Fender Strat.

Well, actually pickups and machine heads have already been replaced, but anyway…

My dear friend and customer French Scala ( http://www.myspace.com/frenchscala )

asked me to turn it into a custom-minimal-set-slide-guitar … !!!

The experiment: we’ re gonna place a humbucking pickup almost in a central position on the top.

We draw a new scratchplate with cad

Today we are butchering an original CHINESE MADE Fender Strat.

Well, actually pickups and machine heads have already been replaced, but anyway…

My dear friend and customer French Scala ( http://www.myspace.com/frenchscala )

asked me to turn it into a custom-minimal-set-slide-guitar … !!!

The experiment: we’ re gonna place a humbucking pickup almost in a central position on the top.

We draw a new scratchplate with cad

and cut it :

A nice coat of shielding spray on the back of the brand new scratchplate.

We connect the pickup to the volume and tone controls.

We need more room on the body in order to place the new pickup and screw-lock everything!

That’ s it … 6 x 6 = 36 !!!

Traslation by Simone Attivissimo

May 7 2008.  We met Mr. BB Morse and all the Troubadillos Band at
Ultrasoundrecords.

Mr.BB Morse playing an ARS_EUB with his trademark style.

These videos and AUDIO were recorded with a little

digital camera.

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The new album by Jhon Artur Martinez and

Chriss’ guitar solo

chriss_solo

Chris Reeves wielding an SRA Axefactory ArsGuitar, used on two tracks of the new
album

recorded at

ULTRASOUNDRECORDS STUDIOS

Chris at work:

BB , John , Me , Ron and Chriss

Thank you very much guys, I wish you  a succesfull tour, full of good music. See you
soon!!!

http://www.johnarthurmartinez.net

http://www.ultrasoundrecords.it/

http://www.myspace.com/bbmorsecode

http://www.myspace.com/aceonguitar

http://www.myspace.com/ronknuth