“A lot of guitar players are like, ‘Oh, well, Jimmy Page was fine with that, so I guess I don’t need more fret access, or I don’t need better balance’”: Tosin Abasi on the art of designing cutting-edge instruments that keep the guitar’s core

Tosin Abasi - Music Man Kaizen.

The recent 70th and 75th birthdays of the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster, respectively, have highlighted how little the electric guitar recipe has changed in the best part of a century.

Tosin Abasi, though, has been intent on shaking up the industry, masterminding a raft of boundary-pushing instruments that look to rethink what is possible with guitar design.