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VISIT GIACO GUITARS™ SCULPTURES AT NAAM 2025, BOOTH 4406
The humble oil-can guitar gets a makeover.
The man behind Giaco Guitars ™ Sculptures is French American metal artist and former cabinet-maker Pascal Giacomini, who says he is having fun being part of the true Americana tradition of creating handmade musical instruments using symbolic vintage artifacts.
A unique guitar concept
–Telecaster modified gear with a Swamp Ash solid body (the original tone-wood used by Leo Fender for his 1952 Telecaster) and resonating Swamp Ash-lined back chamber built under tension, with a sound of its own
–A novel guitar-making technique without glue, nails, or screws that gives perfect sound continuity throughout the resonating swamp ash-lined back chamber
–A professional instrument with rich tone and sustain, remarkable resonance, and perfect build with high quality boutique gear
A series of 100 signed and numbered Giaco Guitars ™ Sculptures only will be produced by the artist.
After five years of working in his Hollywood studio, the result is a world-class, super responsive, and versatile high-performing instrument with professional playability encompassing blues, rock, country, and jazz to the crisp sound of an electric acoustic guitar.
Click on these links to watch 30-second videos of Hollywood studio musicians playing and commenting on Giaco Guitars™:
Not Just an Instrument, it’s Art!
A metal sculptor by profession, Giacomini intersects music and art by creating musical sculptures with the guitar as storyline. Each guitar is interwoven within a steel, sculptural, sometimes fanciful setting, which serves double duty as a free-standing mount. Finally, a guitar that can be displayed as a work of art, not something to be stashed away in guitar case.
Most “art guitars” do not even pretend to be playable. Giaco Guitars™ Sculptures are playable, professional, concert-quality guitars with a singular sound.
He Makes Them, but he Doesn’t Play Them
“I can’t play, I can’t sing, I’m tone deaf,” says Pascal Giacomini.
Much like Leo Fender, who couldn’t play or tune a guitar, Giacomini is not a musician; but he loves music and loves to build things. There’s a new luthier on the block—the same stretch of Curson Avenue in Hollywood, where pioneer of the solid-body guitar Les Paul and his studio/garage lived. It’s where sculpture meets music.
Pascal Giacomini moved to the United States from Paris, France in 1985 and made his home in Los Angeles. He is available for media interviews and invites all interested parties to visit him at Booth 4406 to see and play his Giaco Guitars™ Sculptures.
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