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Aluminati Guitars

By Scott Ulrichs · Vol. 25, No. 9 · July-August 2024

James Little of Aluminati Guitars has been building instruments from aluminum, carbon fiber, and Lucite since 2009 — and the results are guitars that play and sound remarkably consistent, no matter the climate or string gauge. ToneQuest visits his Asheville, NC shop to find out how science, sustainability, and cycling-industry materials converged into a genuinely novel approach to electric guitar design.

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