Ether Six strings
Headless and multiscale: the low strings longer than the high ones, the tuners down at the body. It weighs less, it fits a shorter case, and it holds tuning where others drift.
- Boreale
- Felce
- Grafite
- Galassia
- Rubino
- Carminio
- Ciclamino
- Cobalto
- Nova
- Verde acqua
10 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
The weight disappears from behind the nut
With no headstock, the tuners sit at the body and the centre of gravity moves back: the instrument does not dive forward when you let go, and on a strap it simply stays put. It is also twelve centimetres less case, which anyone who travels with a guitar understands before playing a note.
Multiscale, 648 and 629 millimetres
The sixth string is longer than the first, the way it is on a piano. The low strings stay tight and defined even in dropped tunings, the high ones stay soft under the fingers: you stop having to choose between a scale length that works low and one that works high.
Stainless steel frets
2.80 mm jumbo in stainless steel instead of nickel silver. They do not dent under the strings and they do not wear: after years of bending the setup is still where it was, and a refret — the most expensive job in an instrument's life — never comes up.
Photographs of Ether Six strings
The tuners, behind the bridge
Pickups and controls
The back, one-piece mahogany
Headless
How it sits in the hand.
Nine seconds with the instrument on, no editing. Take the headstock away and the weight that pulls forward goes with it, and the balance shifts towards the body: it is the reason a headless plays the same seated as standing, with nothing to hold up.
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Ether Six strings.
- Number of strings
- Six, seven or eight strings
- Scale length
- Multiscale 648–629 mm25.5 - 24.75 inches
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Frets
- 2.80 mm stainless steel jumbo
- String anchoring
- T4MIn place of the headstock, at the nut
- Tuners
- T4MAt the body, behind the bridge
- Pickups
- De GattisA set drawn for this instrument
- Pots
- 500 kΩ
- Selector
- MEC
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Body finish
- Gloss polyurethane
- Fretboard finish
- Tru-Oil
- Case
- Hard caseIncluded
- Certificate of authenticity
- Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
You choose
Every line here is a conversation, not a drop-down.
- Body
- One-piece select mahogany · Alder
- Neck
- Select mahogany · Curly maple · Wenge
- Fretboard
- Pau ferro · Ebony · Pale Moon Ebony · Curly maple · Rosewood
- Nut
- Bone · Tusq
- Pickup brand
- De Gattis · other brands on requestDe Gattis are standard because we make them ourselves; another brand gets fitted for anyone arriving with something specific in mind
- Bridge
- Fixed · TremoloOn a headless the bridge carries the tuners too: the type is chosen at the order
- Fret markers
- Mother of pearl · Abalone · Wood
- Side dots
- Luminlay · AbaloneLuminlay charges up with light and stays visible in the dark
- Neck finish
- Gloss polyurethane · satin
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
And now
Carry on building it.
The green lines above are yours to decide. In the Custom Shop you pick them one by one, and at the end it is the luthier who writes back, not a form.