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Last Updated:  Wednesday  03/04/26  5:15 PM Central Time

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[New Continuous Carbon Fiber (CCF) guitars output 70% louder than top wood, and while old Carbon Fiber (CF) is only 0-20% louder than top rated wood so this is a major advancement due to the rigidity; and also due to the rigidity you get one saddle for all your tunings and string diamters. The guitars are custom shaped to you in the leg-up classical position, yielding the top fanned-fret uniformity, and as well you get a reversed strum - parallel saddle. Automatic Clutching is arms-free leaning, a flexible stick at the tail -end that slides, bends, and rotates through your leg’s natural grapple via an elastic anchor at the other side of a brand new seat, and it pulls down and to your core (not chest); and this is also what drives the tactile neck resistance for articulation. These guitars encompass no drawbacks when compared to wood, in every single aspect; all pros, no cons. The cost for you at this time is very minimal because we are dealing with short term investements, something that will be discussed further on; plus you get most of the custom specs for free because for most features it doesn't cost in the long-run. Please visit/share: CandlestickGuitars.ca]

+ Just to make things clear, "Automatic-Clutching" is a brand new system, and it is in no way shape or form just a fixed pivot. It is what you would call a dynamic support that allows you to tilt the guitar. There is no better solution; and you can count on that.

+ The use of the word "tactile" in the above instance means that the resistance responce in your guitar neck does work for you as you bank up potencial energy with your fretboard hand as the guitar neck pushes you back into your nuetral-neck-angle position. Another example is with all computer keyboards, how the keycaps spring your fingers back into action rather than hitting a dull thud, much better compared to old typewriters.

+ If you're not sure whether you like fanned-frets I must say you will find the optional angling to be very comfortable and favorable, and rather slight at that. The angles of the fanned frets range from 1.4 to 2.0 times narrower compared to the sitting position over your picking side's thigh.

+ There is no more need to swap saddles or buy extra guitars as these CCF guitars are equipped with enough construction strength to achieve "True Universality". "True Universality" is said to have never been done, as CCF printing only became possible 11 years ago, and yes it is expensive, but good thing for us is that I'm not in it for the money. You get one saddle for all your alternate tunings, string tensions, and string diameters; or you can mix and match string types as well if you want to do something new.

+ Automatic-Clutching is the inspiration and foundation of my "good seated guitar". Automatic-Clutching is just arms-free performnce so you can focus on the fluidity of your playing dynamics, in order to be able to play guitar the right way even if it's just for fun, and you'll be one of the first to be doing it properly. It is extremely fun and rewarding to learn on. This is for you if you know someone who might want to give guitar another shot, or to begin the right way, to play totally free. And you can break a sweat in about 10 minutes. My playing skills doubled and then quadrule just into the 2nd week with nothing holding me back from doing what I had been trying to achieve over so many years of strugling with guitar. I'm not sure exactly how much better I got. Before business became a reality I was mostly playing upright; however now my priority is you, and next is my semi-retirement and to begin again from the start with complete control of every move I make. Everyone wants to play guitar seated sometimes but upright is where all the magic happens so Classical  sort of became the toy guitar.

+ I have a very special custom chair (with awesome footrests) that points you more over top of the guitar, and with a cylindrical hump under your seat that makes it so that your lower back stays perpendicular while leaning.

+ Getting further over top of the guitar is a reocuring theme in "good seated guitar" and allows for superior comfort and increased mobility especially in your shoulders. For instance, I recomend playing a "parlor" guitar because it is typically over your fretboard side thigh, and it's smaller and looks cooler. You can choose your shape and make it as big as you want even if you're 8 feet tall. A parlor is the oldest preserved guitar from 4,000 years ago.

+ I am aiming for the same single profit value for all sales, so that everything is fair. All your feature choices or upgrade options are either free or non-profit. Your chair and footrests would be non-profit with the purchase of a guitar. This financial model makes things straightforward for eveyone and without price gouging.

+ I have a full 90 day grace period to offer you so you can evaluate your investment with confidence before your funds enter the operating budget, however after that I will still always take from the top my profit or funding first before any other expense. The return policy remains open until 50 days after the transaction, and for those guitars they will be used as store demos, absolutely not a problem there. During this time if you begin to think that my progress is not satisfactory or for any reason that you may have, I would refund you in full ASAP.

+ If ~75 guitars are sold in your city it is good enough to put up a local store. Until that goal is reached, campaigning continues. Even if only "some" connect with the concept, then "some" is still going to be good enough to launch successfully; it's a big world, and I am the man for this job. It brings me great joy.

+ I will serve everyone fine coffee at a hotel with conference room, and for the first 10 people who book with me to try out my guitars, I will pay $15 for your time and travel!

***** Updates will appear at the top of this page, beneath the maple leaf, along with a live tally of the sales and requests to demo my two prototypes *****

***** Please make sure to share with as many people as you can so that we can get a store in your city! *****

Candlestick Guitars — Public Campaign Overview

Reading Note:

This whole webpage is 3 printer pages worth of size-12 text. In addition, there is another 4 page Summary Remainder that expands on the technical, financial, and design foundations of the project. I can email the Summary Remainder whenever you’d like. Reviewing everything at once can be overwhelming, and this webpage is designed to be an introduction of it's own. If you’ve read this page and are still uncertain, please know there are many more meaningful and exciting details still to come.

 

Pricing & Ordering Structure

  • The cost for your guitar is CA$1,199 + tax = CA$ 1,330.89

  • Sales typically range from +/- $100 depending on your select guitar size.

  • The chair and footrests are non-profit with the sale of a guitar.

  • Tax is paid before transaction

  • Pricing increases gradually while orders remain open

  • Orders remain open until the production target is reached

  • Taxes can be paid before your guitar enters production.

After the first 50 Package Deal Promotions are sold the price will increases by $100. The price will increase exponentially while slowing down to eventually plateau.

For the time being, while the prices are this low, the only financing option I have to offer is a 5% savings on your second guitar for a total savings of $60 across 2 guitars.

You can take $125 off the price if you make it a final-sale. Your most important consideration with this is that in no way shape or form does this campaign end until the budget is met. I could really guarantee that I can launch somewhere. Once I get profit I will first cover any pending refunds before the funds are go into production and operations. With this deal we can get the ball rolling today. With this deal if I can't produce the goods fast enough then your final sale will go to the refund department if you want, paid off first by the income.

The current pricing structure is designed to be more accessible early on reflecting the perceived outlook of investment.

Instrument Fit, Ergonomics, and Physical Design

Each guitar is designed to form to the player, featuring three highly comfortable cutaways to the back and sides, but not to the guitar top unless you want a standard fretboard-access cutaway that takes away from the top of the guitar. A standard fretboard-access-cutaway actually only reduces volume by about 13%, and if you want it, it will be sculpted nicely.

The number of frets that lay clear off the body can be greater than your standard 14-fret accoustic guitar, and because of this you don't neccessarily need a fretboard-access-cutaway. If so, mine will be sculpted for even better access. 

The upper cutaway is also there to prevent the guitar from digging into the chest, especially important for women. This way as well players can get more over top of the instrument, shifting the work of supporting the guitar with your chest over to supporting your stomach which is far more natural.

Your small finger or your fourth fingure can work just as well as all your other fingers now in this positioning with the way your wrist is bent more naturally, especially great for 4/4 time, as in rock-and-roll time.

True Universality (Tuning, Strings, and Structural Design)

These guitars are engineered with sufficient stiffness to accommodate:

  • Alternate tunings

  • A wide range of string gauges (or diameters)

  • One single zero-fret and one single saddle configuration

All while maintaining precise intonation across the entire fretboard.

True Universality requires a consistent level of structural strength throughout the instrument, including:

  • A headstock with a backward angle that applies controlled counterforce to the strings, stabilizing tension and response

  • A bridge design that maximizes and evenly distributes downward string force, allowing strings to vibrate exactly as intended without dampening from occuring at either ends of the strings

When you try my prototypes we can just use some very nice wooden dowels instead of fiberglass so that my guitar doesn't end up in two or more pieces. Fiberglass tubes on my carbon fiber guitars are super responsive, taking to new limits. The videos you can find at the end of this website are all done with wooden dowels. Fortunately they break easily enough because the fiberglass tube is definately stronger than my prototypes.

Performance is further refined through the inclusion of a zero-fret, which:

  • Handles any string diameter properly

  • Provides consistent tone and feel between open strings and fretted notes.

Individual strings can be purchased to match the requirements indicated by your string-tension calculator app. In most cases alternate tunings can be reached from standard tuning without restringing while still maintaining a balanced enough feel in tension with little compromise. You already probably change your strings often enough anyhow.

Ordering more than one guitar at this price makes total sense, as it provides practical flexibility with a wider range of tunings and string-gauge setups without sacrificing too much of your string-tension-balance. This would be particularly useful for live performance when working with one technician and two guitars.

Our goods emerge from the advancements in the medical and aerospace industries, so we are very lucky.

It is widely believed that True Universality has never been done, only made possible about 5 years ago using Continuous Carbon Fiber Printing Technology which embeds reinforcement directly along structural stress paths and integrates an essentially zero-flex neck beam directly into the instrument.

Health & Movement Benefits

The seated support system—combined with my most thoughtfully designed seat and footrests—creates what is a genuine zen full-body workout.

This setup:

  • Boosts overall health and immunity

  • Cost is about one quarter of the price of a quality computerized hydraulic elliptical.

  • Can induce light sweating in about 10 minutes

  • Avoids fatigue and cramping

Turnaround Time Expectations

At this point a comfortable 6 month could be all it takes provided that the pace of sales are quick enough. If the campaign succeeds over the next few months, production could take approximately less than 6 months from the time I've reached my goal.

This timeline allows everything to be done properly and without shortcuts.

Prototypes, Production, and Quality Control

Prototypes will be used as in-store demos. Once the process is fully refined, every instrument will be built to the same level of quality and precision as with every order that follows.

At that stage, production becomes straightforward—dialing in equations and settings until everything is fully optimized and repeatable.

And computers are better at building guitars. Error does not exist in CCF Printing in the way that it does with custom wooden guitars with measurement error compounding upon measurement error, very very costly stuff.

Growth, Opportunity, and Community Impact

If the project succeeds in the near future it will have the potential to create opportunities for others. For example, experienced custom wood builders might eventually want to get into something where there's more money, managing a Candlestick Guitar Stores in their own region, and with my full support.

The focus remains on the players first, getting the proper equipment out ASAP to those who all need it all more than I do.

If I were to continue selling these guitars at the current price, I estimate that I would need to sell approximately 2,500 guitars, but however prices will rise gradually as the campaign progresses, and I would be able to cap out at around 1,250 contributing sales. I am prepared for whatever it takes to make a go of this thing. And my work ethic is very good because this is exactly what I want to be doing most; and I've never been sick with as much as a cold in almost 20 years.

I’m prepared to take on Computer Scientists immidiately to construct the generative software, and as well the website which is going to have to be be very smart taking all the potencial pain out of the process as we can. If interested in these projects, please include a cost and timeline breakdown with your resume. First you will need the Summary Remainder to get an idea of exactly how big these program needs to be.

From Wood to Carbon Fiber

Originally, the project explored modifying wooden guitars. Collectors across Canada were contacted, but without a single response, so the path naturally led towards the freedoms surrounding the use of carbon fiber printing.

Wooden guitars still hold deep value—often to those who need them the most. Donating a wooden guitar in a simple waterproof case would genuinely change someone's life for good.

What’s Included & Return Policy

  • All free in the long-run print features are included

  • A semi-hard shell case will be included

  • Returns are full and final all the way up until 50 days after transaction.

  • Returns will also be used as store demos 

Accessories & Extras

I also carry rubber fingertip attachments (adult and children’s sizes) so you can reduce discomfort during long practice sessions while building callus and fingertip muscle gradually. 

How the Support System Works 

The elastic hose descends at roughly 10–15 degrees away from straight down, keeping the guitar held down and to your stomach pulling from a common leg brace from either side. This will eliminate the drift, the guitar sliding out of position while playing harder than the old positioning allows for. (Some of you are probably trained to be able to play very softly which is a great skill to have.)

The system supports smooth arc-shaped fretting motions without strap friction and requires no learning curve; and eventually you just lift off, or you can try to play as you've learnt, until your arm will just eventually lift off. Adjudicators are going to love this.

Why the name “Candlestick Guitars”

The name comes from two ideas:

  1. The guitars feature seven candlestick-style tube ports all in a row at the tail-end of the guitar, as the tube ports are what dictates the height of your lower bout under your shoulder and picking arm. Then it becomes up to your fretboard-side thigh angle to dictate the angle of your guitar neck.

  2. The guitars functions like a durable currency within a resale ecosystem on my second-hand guitar store website. The system emails you when a matching instrument becomes available—particularly useful for growing kids.

Sound, and Future Expansion

Each guitar will be individually optimized for volume and sustain. The level of the unplugged sustain will be quite comparable to humbuckers and nickel strings. And you can get a electric setup on a muted or non-muted acoustic guitar.

And electric guitar production is planned in the distant years as the last of my priorities.

Guitars will eventually be made to have a Smart Guitar option, carefully engineered to never go out of date with free software updates, except these won't just be Smart Guitars, they will have to be Bright Guitars. I'm very excited about it; a lot of things can happen with future technologies. One example is that you can charge your guitar through its case.

For the time being we can use a built in pre-amp option that can do the job of a heavy amplifier running in the middle between your guitar and headphones in order to practice when and where ever you want with one of my muted accoustic bodies. And this way you can keep your wet and dry signals from clashing, especially critical when using a pitch-shifting pedal, bypassing the dry output. Either way you definately want to pick one of the wet singal or the dry signal.

Also, I should note that all electronics will be sand and water proof.

Market Positioning

  • Entry level: $1,000–$2,000 CAD

  • Professional mid-range: $2,500–$5,000 CAD

  • High-end: $6,000–$15,000 CAD

  • Ultra-premium: $15,000–$25,000+ CAD

My goal is to earn the same overall by selling more guitars at fair prices, rather than fewer luxury sales.

Long-Term Vision

Future reinvestments include an indoor rainforest with coffee, sushi, live music, walking paths, waterfalls, and mini-golf.

Stores, Cities, and Travel

Travel will be up to me to get you to try my 2 prototypes. I will rent a board room at my hotel. Even if there are only a few interested in your local city then I will still be prepared to make the visit. I aim to put up a new store every month. Saskatoon will be first, and Winnipeg is potencially next in line.

Durability, Climate Resistance, and Trust

Carbon fiber requires no humidification, with a near zero temperature shock and protects tuning stability.

My newly redesigned headstock will protect tuning pegs from damage, bumping, or brushing.

Financially, 30% of your production funds are held back until production begins because some of you won't know when you might need that money. This way it is more fair for everybody. All pledges are traceable, and refunds can be issued if necessary—even during a pandemic. New customers in a pandemic would have to lend a surplus amount to compensate for those in need. Keep in mind however that guitar is a great way to save money, and to stay healthy.

And in the case of tragedy I have designed a Will so that the business moves on no matter what.

Material Cost Breakdown

Approximate material costs per average sized guitar:

  • Carbon-fiber pellets: $350

  • Liquid Metal frets: $25

  • Tuning machines: $55

  • Zero Nut & saddle: $15

  • Case: $55

Total materials for every average sized guitar is $500. If your guitar is going to cost less because you choose a smaller guitar, I will issue rebates once I have the actual prices. And of course your price is locked in so that if it costs more I won't be asking for more funds to make up for some loose budgeting of the additional upgrade price estimates. What I am saying is that I will never be able to get accurate prices for the costs of the extras features. These are listed in the Summary Remainder. For those prices it would take some time into the prototyping stages to get a close idea of it, but for now it is wise to not worry about the extra costs, as we can square up sometime after you know what you want with the help of my website. So if it is too expensive you will know before it goes in to prints; and just to reitterate, all upgrades are either free or for a non-profit fee.

For many customers this system will be a must for your guitar journey in continuing or beginning, and to know you will be happy in your guitar practice as there are no unneccessary limitations.

Final Notes & Contact

You can excel at just about anything you put your mind to, even if you choose classical guitar, but whatever you do, make sure that you're doing it right. And unlike with other sports you can always excel your whole life. And when I say "sport", Classical Guitarists actually go under an adjudication processes, and I'm very interested to see the level of passion in Guitar Colleges everywhere, going form paint-by-number performance to Piccaso capability.

In my hometown of Saskatoon, my pressentation has truly come a long way. I thought it would be easy, but either way there's no stopping until I am able to earn the trust of enough people in order to launch and semi-retire as quickly as I can.

I will document the process and update regularily so you know how your investment is doing. At the top of the page I will have a live tally of the number of people going to try out my prototypes, and a live number of my sales count.

(current sales completed = zero)

(current prototype try out sessions = zero)

I sincerely thank you for your time and consideration,

Scott Allbright
sjallbright@gmail.com

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