“It’s an expansive and beautiful-sounding guitar that’s been flawlessly executed”: Meet the Tamar, a futuristic headless multi-scale electric from UK builder Yarde Guitars to rival Strandberg

Yarde Guitars Tamar.

While he was studying as a furniture maker, James Yarde (the ‘e’ is silent), found it was necessary to learn 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design).

“With a great technical team around me, I learnt how to harmonise modern CAM [Computer Aided Manufacturing] processes and traditional techniques to produce accurate products with character,” he tells us. It’s not the traditional lutherie route, granted, but one that informs James’s thoroughly modern guitar craft.