Falling Frets
I have designed this solution to simplify playing in bottom positions, it is following natural ergonomic position of the left hand on the neck.

Warning - stolen Nexus guitars

I kindly inform all visitors and readers of my website, that cooperation between Nexus Guitars - Jacek Kobylski and Noel Coquet has been stopped from 1 March 2004. According to that Mr Noel Coquet is not allowed to represent Nexus Guitars in contacts, trade negotiations, transactions or any other deals connected to Nexus Guitars - Jacek Kobylski.

At the same time I have to inform all of you that instruments from following list are the only property of Jacek Kobylski -Nexus Guitars. Any trials of purchase or sell of above mentioned and described instruments from Noel Coquet or other persons are prohibited by law, and will be reported to the police.

I would be grateful for any information send on email address feedback@nexus-guitars.com, concerning trials of purchase or sale of described guitars.

Mike Porcaro visited the workshop
Mike Porcaro visited the workshop [article Nieusblad] 06-11-0-2003

[for the ones that do not read Dutch... and thats quite a lot]

Dune
Quite often we got the question... does it break easy?... it looks so fragile...

In search of more sustain
In 1997 Jacek Kobylski was visiting his grandfathers grave, Jacek's wife Ania putted a glass with a candle on the grave while Jacek rested his ear on the gravestone a clear longlasting eqaltone was flowing through the stone. Jacek immediately got the idea to create fingerboards of stone. By the end of 1997 the first fretless bass with a stone fingerboard was made. If desired soundpatterns like playing with a bow are achived by playing with your fingers.

Recently the first bass with a fretted stone fingerboard has been made, the bass has been played by Marcus Miller and Mike Porcaro. The signature of Marcus on the back of the instrument says enough. The proud owner of this instrument is Kristof de Bruyn from Brasschaat/Belgium

After Marcus had to follow T. M. Stevens we met him on the 29th of September in Krefelt [Germany] he found the Monsterbass a cutie... will T. M. play his own Monsterbass soon? and what will Mike Porcaro play after he visited our workshop... soon more about that event.

The possibility to apply granite fingerboards on string instruments was discovered and worked out by me in 1996.

Thermal adaptation of stone (T.A.S.) gives the possibility to use stone for resonance-acoustic purposes. TAS relies on the appropriate degradation of the high temperature levels and then using a proper slow reducing temperature process. Using this process brings out the most of stone as a resonance material. Sometimes Mother Nature provides us prepared solutions and sometimes it only implies on the extraordinary abilities of some materials that are waiting for us to discover them.

I have been creating the stone fingerboards for seven years and I know that all of my instruments which have these fingerboards gain an unusual and unique character of sound and its sustain extends up to 30% while its tone is not hard and dry but warm, rich and sonorous. These instruments have unusual sound which can be given only by such an exceptional material like the granite we use for our stone fingerboards. - Jacek Kobylski

The Nexus stone fingerboards are truly a revolution in the guitar world... about 30% more sustain... a smooth feeling and great tone...

The Nexus Stonefingerboards True Works of Art.