MAHAI METAK Project History
by Xabier Iriondo

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I started preparing electric guitars & basses at the end of the 90’s.

At the beginning I used semiacoustic guitars, put them horizontal and using metal, wood objects and electronic stuff to create strange sound effects.

……….after I built a “Table Guitar” with plywood, guitar pick-ups and primitive electronic

One year ago I started to design a new instrument, a multistring table guitar with the best electronic components on the market, nice woods, and an original newone shape. The luthier Martino Lunardelli (LunArt) helped me in this project and built the prototype of this instrument:

….after few months we arrived at the final design and Martino built the final MAHAI METAK on a 40 years old olive wood :