In The Workshop -
Each André instrument is unique. Beyond its serial number, each has a name. Every detail counts, especially when dealing with touch, sound, and responsiveness.
Hollow-body guitars
André's electric guitars are thought out in terms of acoustic engineering, before any amplification factor comes into play.
Kouai (below) has a balanced mass and great sustain.
It offers the -airy- qualities expected of a hollowbody guitar.
A guitar such as Kouai has great unplugged qualities that one can hear from it when being amplified and well recorded.
Hear it played solo by Jean-Marc Hébert (2 Min.)
Kouai - Internal views (below):
Acoustic guitars
Inside the box to the Maya Bass 2015: -Typical laminated -neck wings- support attached to neck block. Also visible are: Beveled hardwood tail block, glued-in side brackets, tubing for pickup lead wire going to tail, faceted spruce cutaway in place on soundboard, and resulting cut on treble-side of body. Lattice-type bracing is used on top plate, with long radial type bracing pattern on back.
Hear the Maya 4 string bass : 1 min. workbench demo:
Soundbox construction views (below):
Inside and outside the soundbox to Oudtar, 2011. Typical -neck wings- support are attached to the neck block,
Kasagami Japanese paper reinforces every seam of the 22 - rib structure.
Greyhound mandoline bowl-back completed (left), and the Old-school archtop rim assembly (right).
Inside the Clara Archtop, 2020: -Typical -neck wings- support attached to neck block.
Also visible, is a laminated rosewood internal pickup support, that holds the pickup suspended and clear of the top.
Acoustic designs:
Different bracing combinations used for André acoustic guitars (below) :
Guitare-fruit Wurcer (2018), intermixed parallel bars and ladder bracing.
Old-school Archtop (2017): Intermixed parallel bars and ladder bracing.
Oudtar : soundboard prior to its voicing stage (2013): -Intermixed x-brace and a sequential bracing.
Raga Guitar (2017): -Traditional x-brace with fan-type lower bout segment (video below).
Video courtesy of the Boutique guitar Showcase