Those of you who have played a Claas instrument know what I’m talking about – you’ve experienced the superior, incredibly smooth feeling frets we have on all of our guitars and basses. As musicians, many of us have also experienced the opposite. It is taken as standard that frets encounter all sorts of problems, and […]
‘Ergonomic’ is a term used all the time in marketing guitars and basses. A big brand might tell you that their latest model features an ‘ergonomically designed body’, or something like that. But with some modern guitars designed today, the word is used in a different way. We don’t say that these guitars are ‘ergonomically […]
The NECORE NECK – the unique Claas Guitars neck joint Besides the iconic body shape of our guitars, their most standout feature is surely our unique neck joint design, which we call the NECORE Neck. It is a combination of: an extended neck width beyond the fretboard a long contact surface between the body and […]
If you are living the common 21st century guitarists life, you are of course reading and hearing a lot of things in online forums, facebook groups and youtube videos. One of the wordings you are hearing about more and more is „quarter sawn wood“. This is surely something that it not new! It is wood […]
Hi, this blog will be all about headless guitars and basses. I will give a very very short overview on the history and then I talk about benefits, problems, tipps and everything you should know when you talk about guitars and basses without a headstock. Common thinking of who was the inventor of the headless […]
Thank you for reading this blog. This is the very first blog post I made on Claas Guitars, its February 2018. On this blog I will frequently publish texts about Claas Guitars, custom shop guitars in general, luthiery and myself as a person. The goal is on one hand to give you a deep insight […]