Electric Resonator Guitar — Hamurana Guitar Works

“I approached Jeff about building a custom resonator guitar. What resulted very much sprung from his imagination, and its the best guitar I’ve ever owned or played. But beyond that, its just completely unique in so many ways. I play it in a variety of styles, picked, finger picked, e-bowing, traditional bowing, and it shines for all of them.There is a character and life to it that brings a sense of dimensionality to the sound it makes. The intonation is incredible, and its ability to stay in tune is remarkable. After playing it 4-5 hours a day for a month I’ve tuned it a handful of times, and usually just a couple strings. Its almost spooky. I play in a band that incorporates electronic music, and as a result run direct into a laptop and use amp modelling (Guitar Rig). I like a fairly clean tone, and this means that it can be tricky to get a guitar to sound good and sit right, there’s no forgiveness of an amp. This guitar sounds incredible direct, which to me is just about the highest praise I could give an instrument. What has always been a situation I’ve had to make the best of with other guitars is the opposite here. It sounds so good and sits so well that I can even lean on its natural tone. This thing isn’t leaving my sight on the road.”

- Mark