
Rust & Roll: Inside Trussart’s Steel Guitar Workshop

> LOS ANGELES – In a small workshop a pick’s throw from downtown L.A., a French luthier pays homage to the quintessential American electric guitar using a most unusual material. From across the room, the Trussart Deluxe SteelCaster may look like a ’52 Fender Telecaster. But lay your hands on it and you immediately know this cool chunk of welded steel didn’t come out of the Fender Custom Shop. James Trussart combines the vintage aesthetic of classic American guitars with a flair for the unusual to create beautiful instruments that sound as sweet as they look. “What’s different about what I’m doing is I’m using steel,” Trussart said. “It reacts differently and affects the tone. At first people didn’t think it would …

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