{"id":250178,"date":"2025-04-26T18:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biafax.it\/?page_id=250178"},"modified":"2025-05-05T00:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T22:20:57","slug":"chi-sono","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biafax.it\/en\/about-me-mimmos-not-a-luthier-handmade-guitars-biafax-co-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"From the desk to the workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biafax.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ResizerImage800X600.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biafax.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ResizerImage800X600.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biafax.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ResizerImage800X600.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biafax.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ResizerImage800X600.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Mimmo Biafax \u2013 self-taught enthusiast of electric violin making<\/strong><br>Between strings, wood and pixels, every guitar is a new adventure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is <strong>Mimmo Biafax<\/strong>, I am almost 63 years old and, after forty years spent as an employee, I have rediscovered a passion that has ignited something new in my life: electric violin making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no carpentry studies or experience as a craftsman. I started from scratch, driven only by the desire to build something with my own hands \u2014 and by the eternal charm of the electric guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armed with hobby tools, patience and lots of YouTube videos (with particular inspiration from Noe Hervas and other web masters), I transformed a corner of my garage into a small laboratory.<br>Here I made my first instruments, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a <strong>Stratocaster \u201cnegative\u201d<\/strong> in mahogany with maple fingerboard,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a <strong>PRS style<\/strong> with flamed maple top and a long battle with epoxy resin,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a <strong>semi-acoustic ES-339 style<\/strong>, with a top decorated in antique gold leaf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to think in a personal way: I do not chase industrial perfection, nor do I copy the big brands to the letter. I prefer to interpret, experiment, look for original solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My tools were not born perfect \u2014 every inch gained was sweated out. But because of this, every mistake, every failed attempt, every success has taught me something that I can now share with those who want to embark on this journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This site, my ebooks and my projects were born with a simple purpose:<br><strong>demonstrate that anyone, with the right passion and the desire to learn, can build their own electric guitar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I could do it, you can do it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to my world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to find out how to start building your first electric guitar? Download my free ebook now!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mi chiamo Mimmo Biafax, ho quasi 63 anni e, dopo quarant\u2019anni trascorsi come impiegato, ho riscoperto una passione che ha acceso qualcosa di nuovo nella mia vita: la liuteria elettrica. Non ho alle spalle studi di falegnameria n\u00e9 esperienze da artigiano. Ho cominciato da zero, spinto solo dalla voglia di costruire qualcosa con le mie &#8230; <a title=\"From the desk to the workbench\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/biafax.it\/en\/about-me-mimmos-not-a-luthier-handmade-guitars-biafax-co-uk\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dalla scrivania al banco da lavoro\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250178","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chi sono \u2013 Mimmo&#039;s (not a luthier) Handmade Guitars | biafax.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mimmo Biafax: da impiegato a costruttore di chitarre elettriche fai-da-te. 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