2024 JAF Master Project
The Team:
Artist: Christoph Gruber | christophgruber.com
Johannes Auly | aulyguitars.com
Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky | madaguitars.com
Frank Deimel | deimelguitarworks.com
The JAF master is designed as an ultra-light and compact shortscale headless thinline archtop electric guitar with 24 frets and a short scale. It combines magnetic pickups with contact pickups in sensible places in the body and neck.
This combination enables both the integration of acoustic elements into the sound and the recording of interaction with the instrument.
The electronics are mainly controlled by knobs and blend potentiometers, while the concept of multiple channels and blending different sounds is continued on the pedal board.
The name JAFmaster is derived from the initials of the guitar makers involved – Johannes, Adam and Frank – who are all masters of their craft.
The construction process of the JAFmaster is also accompanied on the EGB’s social media channels: https://www.facebook.com/egbcommunitybuild
Updates on the construction and becoming of is also documented on christophgruber.com/jafmaster
Links and articles:
KÖLBL European Tonewood: JAFmaster – A dream becomes reality!
A joint project of the European Guitar Builders – EGB
Body: Paulownia
Top: Walnut
Neck: Spruce from KÖLBL European Tonewood GmbH
Fingerboard: Smoked oak
Special feature: D-Tube Neck Beam™
Scale: 610mm / 24“
Frets: 24
Pickups: Alumitones
Piezos: K&K Sound
Community Build Project 2017
The Musician: Elena Todorova
Elena Todorova is a trained musician / guitarist living in Vienna. She likes to play varied genres — Jazz, Funk, Blues, as well as Rock and Pop music. During her career she has worked with numerous bands, like Louie Austen, Sam Brisbe, Big John Withfield, Aminata Seydi, Kris Jefferson, Lubomir Gospodinov, Uni Big Band and others. In 2014 she recorded her own album together with singer Aminata Seydi ein Album. Elena also teaches in Vienna at the ‘Wiener Konservatorium’.
For more information visit her website or follow her on Facebook.
The Team
The Guitarbuilders:
General support:
- Tamara Koller (guitar building student)
- Roberto Cardi
The Beginning / Vienna, June 2017
“For an instrumentalist it is very important to have the oportunity to communicate with the people, who are actually building the Instruments.
EGB is supporting and making the connection between the musician and the instrument stronger through this creative process. This is a great way to develope the guitar, but also to support the music, the inspiration, and the way of playing guitar.”
Elena Todorova, 2017
The guitar is progressing, with Martin Fant is finishing the hardware.
The fingerboard
The electric guitar is finished!
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