Fremediti Features

Hand-graduated Archtop. This method represents the most traditional way of carving the top and back of an archtop guitar.

Our hands carve and graduate the top and back plates with precision, using various chisels and techniques. We shape both plates—especially the top with its bracing—to transmit vibrations evenly across the surface.

In the final carving stage, we begin the critical process known as “tap tone tuning.” By gently removing tiny amounts of wood, we fine-tune the thickness of each piece. We tap specific areas repeatedly and adjust until both the top and back reach the desired pitch.

Using these tuned components in the construction, the guitar delivers a louder and more resonant primary tone, along with rich overtones.

Our Fremediti titanium tailpiece suspension is a patented original design that improves the guitar’s playability.

The tailpiece includes a suspension system that absorbs a small part of the string tension when pressing the strings against the frets. This creates a "lighter" feel, especially noticeable during string bends.

The suspension mechanism does not touch the soundboard. As a result, the top vibrates and “breathes” freely, preserving the guitar’s acoustic character.

In addition, the system absorbs part of the structural stress caused by bending. This protects the delicate materials and construction used in acoustic instruments.

We machine the Fremediti tailpiece from titanium alloy. This material adds stability, reduces weight, and delivers a brighter, clearer sound.

Finally, an ebony cover with an exotic top veneer enhances the classic look of the guitar.

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Fremediti Eumelia Pedal. Eumelia is the top acoustic model in our archtop line. To preserve its unique tone, we needed a way to control both the acoustic and electric pickups without adding any components to the soundboard. So, we designed an offboard control pedal, housed in an elegant custom box.

This pedal lets the player switch or blend the piezo and electric pickups. It also enables the use of active or passive EQ, making it the perfect companion for Eumelia.

Fremediti Piezo Bridge for our acoustic models (archtops & hollows). Height-adjustable ebony bridge with a specially designed undersaddle Fishman acoustic piezo pickup and a 1/8” ebony saddle.

The 1/8” saddle width helps achieve precise intonation by shaping the exact contact point for each string.

Fremediti Traditional Tailpiece. Our custom design handmade tailpiece, featuring string grounding, eliminates pickup hum in wooden bridge equipped guitars (archtops & hollows).

Strings to Body Clearance. The hollow models feature a higher strings-to-body clearance, inspired by our flagship archtops, Eumelia and Polymnia.

This design enables the integration of the Fremediti Piezo bridge and the Fremediti titanium tailpiece.

These essential components give the hollow-body guitars the feel, playability, and acoustic tonal character typically found in our archtops.

Wooden Binding and Purfling. We aimed to offer impeccable aesthetics to our top-tier archtop and hollow models.

These models feature wooden bindings, multi-ply wooden purfling, and layered veneers and strips across every possible area.

We apply the same detailed craftsmanship to the f-holes, ensuring visual harmony and precision.

Pickguard mounted to the neck. On the archtop and hollow models, we mount the floating pickup with the pickguard directly to the neck.

This setup avoids any contact with the guitar top and preserves its free vibration.

Pots Mounted to the Fingerrest. We discreetly position two mini pots under the fingerrest, keeping them entirely separate from the guitar top.

This setup preserves the top's free vibration.

Additionally, it maintains the classic aesthetic of our acoustic models (archtops & hollows) without introducing visual or structural interference.

Fremediti Acoustic-Electric System. A system designed to manage acoustic or electric sound selection and to explore unlimited blending possibilities.

It also includes an acoustic pickup face selector, separate tone controls for each sound type, and a master volume knob.

We install it on our archtop and hollow models.

No pickup holes at hollow bodys. The on-board pickups install into holes made in the guitar’s soundboard. This process requires removing two sections of wood.

Such removal reduces the soundboard’s structural integrity and negatively affects its ability to vibrate freely. It also lowers the soundboard’s resistance to string tension.

To avoid this, we designed our pickups in a way that eliminates the need for holes in the soundboard.

Handmade laminated plates. We carefully select and laminate the wood layers for the tops and backs of our hollow and semi-hollow models.

Throughout the process, we check the tone characteristics of each plate.

We adjust their thickness and hardness to achieve a balanced tone.

Three-piece neck. All our guitars feature a three-piece neck.

This design increases stability and helps control the neck’s elasticity.

Varitone RLC Notch Filter. The varitone circuit acts as an RLC notch filter added to the guitar’s main circuit.

It uses various capacitors to reduce frequencies at specific points within the overall bandwidth. Rotating the varitone from position 1 to position 5 shifts the filter’s center frequency (f0) from higher to lower frequencies.

To achieve the best results, the circuit’s characteristics must adjust according to the guitar’s main circuit specifications—such as pickups, pots, capacitors, and cable types.

We carefully tailor these settings to optimize the varitone’s performance.

Arion features a long tenon neck joint.

The neck’s tenon is the wood piece that attaches firmly to the body.

A longer tenon creates a more secure bond.

Smooth Transition Set-neck Joint. The Orpheus models (set-neck edition) showcase a soft double cutaway body that offers easy access to the highest frets.

The smooth neck-to-body transition and the specially designed joint enable this accessibility.

The set-neck construction increases sustain and enhances the guitar’s structural stability.