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The most interesting project is, surely, that one tied to the “Evolution” line.

In 1991 rises in me the need to have a very particular instrument, dictated by the insatisfaction of the instruments I used in that particular period. My main guitar, with which I usually played, was a GIBON LES PAUL CUSTOM 1980, an excellent instrument which I liked very much for its sound and playability, but, the fact of getting back home with an aching shoulder after having rehearsed or after concerts, pushed me into buying a FENDER STRATOCASTER , which, with all respects tied to its sound and its high fluting name, I promptly modified substituting the pickups and some other details. After a brief period of adjustment, my feeling of insatisfaction very soon came back. One day, whilst in the countryside preparing a barbecue of fish, I went to a dried up tree to cut off a branch, the saw was well sharpened and I was beginning to feel hungry, so I started cutting. After about ten minutes my wife called me telling me to hurry up; the branch was quite large and I was not able to cut it so I used other wood and dried shrubs to light the fire. After a few days I went back to that same place taking with me an axe, a new blade and a chainsaw; I cut off the branch with difficulty and immediately realised that the wood was very compact, it looked much like marble. In that moment the idea to make the neck of a guitar jumped to my mind. I went back home and showed my father that little trunk asking him of what essence it was made of and after having consulted one of his friends, an authentic expert carpenter, they told me that it was red mulberry: They were both struck by its compact vein and the carpenter asked me where the tree was because he absolutely wanted that wood. Looking at his expression I immediately understood that I was before a really unique timber, so I told him lie saying that the tree was not on my property. The next day I went back, on my own, to the property and with my chainsaw cut down the tree. After about a year of hard work came to being the NUMBER ONE.

It played great, I had made it enirely of mulberry timber, using practically only that hard wood with exception of the fingerboard, which was in ebony. During the phases of construction I had to sharpen the utensils continuously, but that timber was wonderful! After having played it myself and having it tried by various musicians like Fabrizio Bianco, Rocco Zifarelli and Nico Di Palo, I decided to study a normal evolution of that prototype.

After ten years of studying, comparing, trying and talking to various musicians and after other constructions of other models of the same line, I achieved making the guitar of my dreams i.e. the Evolution Antonio Masiello. I sold the stratocaster even if it still played well, I kept the Les Paul but, unfortunately I don’t play it because it isn’t as good as my Evolution.

LINE OF PRODUCTION “EVOLUTION”

Solid body guitars with tonal chambers

The instruments of the “Evolution” line of production have in common some particularities which are represented by the evolution of the first model made between 1992 and 1993. The points in common are:

HIGHLY FIGURED TIMBERS, WELL SEASONED WITH ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS FOR A GOOD TRANSMISSION OF THE SOUND WAVES THROUGH THE TIMBER FIBRES;

ERGONOMIC FORM WHICH IS SHOWN AND DISCUSSED TOGETHER WITH THE CUSTOMER SO THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE THE FORM DESIRED;

THE PRESENZE OF TONAL CHAMBERS WITHIN THE BODY GENERALLY MADE WITH TWO OR THREE ESSENCES;

A PARTICULAR JOINT OF CONJUNCTION BETWEEN NECK-BODY CALLED DOVETAIL IN A LONGITUDINAL SENSE AND THE GLUEING OF THE PARTS TOGETHER WITH AN ALIPHATIC RESIN ;

THE POSTERIOR PART OF THE NECK IS FINISHED WITH TUNG OIL AND HAS AN ASYMMETRIC PROFILE IN ORDER TO GIVE LESS TENSION TO THE LEFT ARM AND HAND MUSCLES;

A CHOICE OF THE BRIDGE AND PICKUPS WITH TOTAL PROTECTION AND EARTHING OF THE WHOLE ELECTRIC CIRCUIT AND OF THE INSTRUMENT;

FINISHING OFF WITH SHINNING NITROCELLULOSE VARNISH “LAWRENCE MAC FADDEN” SPECIFIC FOR GIUTARS, USED ON HIGH LEVEL INSTRUMENTS (BOB BENEDETTO JAZZ GIUTARS).

THE INSTRUMENTS ARE ENTIRELY HAND MADE.