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Contriver Guitars Computational Lutherie
by Brett Bailey
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play with ingenuity
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If every part of something can change, what has to remain for it to still be the same thing?
10/06/2026

If every part of something can change, what has to remain for it to still be the same thing?

Convex Top. Concave Back. Autodesk Fusion
10/04/2026

Convex Top.
Concave Back.

Autodesk Fusion

09/14/2026

Contriver Systems.

Patent Pending Kernel Architecture and CAD Software.

This months class has me roughing out a tele..? Convex TopConcave BackAutodesk Fusion
09/12/2026

This months class has me roughing out a tele..?

Convex Top
Concave Back

Autodesk Fusion

Foundation Series - Echo Six - 2026Fresh off the bench, up there on my list of favourites so far. Maple board, maple nec...
09/08/2026

Foundation Series - Echo Six - 2026

Fresh off the bench, up there on my list of favourites so far. Maple board, maple neck, and crisp lines, definitely starting another one when time aligns.

Built in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦

FINGERBOARD:
- 27.00” Scale Length
- Blistered Maple w/Black Underlay
- 11-20” Compound Radius
- Jescar Music 47095 Fretwire
- Semi-Hemi Ends
- Polyurethane

NECK:
- 3 Piece Maple+Sapele
- Flamed Black Walnut Front+Back Head
- Carbon Fibre Reinforcements
- Blistered Maple Logo Plate
- Bone Nut
- Luminlay Blue Side Dots

BODY:
- Flamed Black Walnut Top
- Ash Body(3.0lbs/BF)
- Matching Pickup Covers
- “Bound” Pickup Routes
- Matching Magnetic Back Plate
- Ebony+Chechen Retainer Block

ELECTRONICS:
- Volume 550K CTS
- Tone 450K Alpha
- Barrel Output
- Bridge Pickup: 16K
- Neck Pickup: 12k

HARDWARE:
- Hipshot Products, Inc. Fixed Bridge
- Hipshot Products, Inc. Open-Gear Locking Tuners

FINISH:
Rubio Monocoat Canada
Black Forest Wood Co. Ceramic

Weight: 7.5lbs

Free insured shipping within Canada and the continental United States.

Buyer is responsible for any applicable import duties, taxes, customs charges or carrier brokerage fees.

Feel free to message with any questions or for additional photos.

09/04/2026

Echo 6, Foundation Series 2026.
Made in Canada 🇨🇦

Track recorded via Kemper into Logic, rough composition+mix.

Neck pickup only.

Available on reverb shortly. Shipping worldwide.

FINGERBOARD:
- 27.00” Scale Length
- Blistered Maple w/Black Underlay
- 11-20” Compound Radius
- Jescar 47095 Fretwire
- Semi-Hemi Ends
- Polyurethane

NECK:
- 3 Piece Maple+Sapele
- Flamed Black Walnut Front+Back Head
- Carbon Fibre Reinforcements
- Blistered Maple Logo Plate
- Bone Nut
- Luminlay Blue Side Dots

BODY:
- Flamed Black Walnut Top
- Ash Body(3.0lbs/BF)
- Matching Pickup Covers
- “Bound” Pickup Routes
- Matching Magnetic Back Plate
- Ebony+Chechen Retainer Block

ELECTRONICS:
- Volume 550K CTS
- Tone 450K Alpha
- solomusicgear Barrel Output
- Bridge Pickup: 16K
- Neck Pickup: 12k

HARDWARE:
- Hipshot Fixed Bridge
- Hipshot Products Inc Open-Gear Locking Tuners

Weight: 7.5lbs

🗓️TODAY 📢 3PM Eastern on the Looth-a-long. Show off whats on your bench, what you’re researching, or even talk about you...
08/31/2026

🗓️TODAY 📢

3PM Eastern on the Looth-a-long.

Show off whats on your bench, what you’re researching, or even talk about your favourite glue.

See you later.

The Looth Group
Seuf Guitars

Stained glass has been on my mind lately.Autodesk Fusion
08/30/2026

Stained glass has been on my mind lately.

Autodesk Fusion

There has been a lot of discussion lately about buying Canadian, supporting Canadian businesses, and keeping manufacturi...
08/27/2026

There has been a lot of discussion lately about buying Canadian, supporting Canadian businesses, and keeping manufacturing here.

Canada is home to world class ingenuity, everything from engineering to art.. the architecture shaping our skylines down to the simple parts of daily life. It’s original. It’s home.

A lot of amazing ideas come to life from the smallest of teams. A lot of those amazing ideas can ONLY come to life from the smallest of teams. Without a board room, prior decision debt, or the burden of prior intuitional process.

If we want more things designed and made here, the people doing that work have to be able to make a living doing it.

Buy a pedal from your local tinkerer.
Buy a pickup from your local tinkerer.

Keep it in the community; it takes a neighbourhood to raise a child.

Canadian-made will not always be the cheapest option. It simply can’t be. It simply can’t be, a spreadsheet doesn’t care about the person behind the numbers.

Buy Canadian when you can.

Value Canadian labour when you do.

My personal side of this is below.

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Contriver Guitars is one person. Brett Bailey.

I grew up in Caledonia, I attended The Canadian School of Lutherie in the summer of 2015, attended classes in AutoCAD 2016, and have been researching and practicing Lutherie in Hamilton, Ontario, be it working for others or for myself.

There isn’t a corporation behind the name absorbing discounts or a marketing department paying for advertising. At this scale, discounts come out of my own labour, and for a one person shop, those numbers aren’t abstract, eventually you’re measuring them in groceries.

I’ve had some great relationships over the years, but I’ve also learned that there has to be a limit to what a one person business can reasonably absorb in the name of marketing.

I’m not accepting new artist arrangements for the foreseeable future, and I’m moving away from that model.

This is simply part of the reality of small-scale manufacturing in Canada.

Buy Canadian when you can.

Value Canadian labour when you do.

Thank you. 🇨🇦

- Brett Bailey

08/23/2026

🚨3D ANIMATORS🚨 ⬇️

When 4D shows where 3D stops being honest enough to participate, 3D can use that experience as a launch pad for research into a better vocabulary.

Using 4D Shadows, wireframes, surfaces, and solids, as a lens for User Interface and User Experience design gives us an extra perception of how light can reflect off different shapes.

This view and constrained rotation on the ZW only shows the little cube rotating through the big cube.

Visually accurate and Geometrically accurate are two very different things. One for AEC, and one for Animation.

Question becomes, Do I have any 3D Animation creators following along? And would you be open to chatting about what an Animation Software would look like to you.

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Hamilton, ON
L0R, L8E TO L8W, L9A TO L9C, L9G TO L9H, L9K

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 9pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Sunday 9am - 9pm

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