 Hi, I am Jakob, the creator of the Canna Guitar.
My goal is to create a truely unique and innovative guitar that is made to inspire you, so you can do the same for your audience.
Made to inspire
The ‘Canna Guitar’ is my approach to creating beautiful and avant-garde guitars that are a joy to look at and a joy to play.
The Canna guitar will make you stand out so you can captivate and entertain your audience like never before.
The biggest reward for me is to see great artists using my work to make true art.
With a body made of Hemp
Hempstone: A fascinating material that consists purely out of natural hemp fibers and water.
The Hempstone body offers a compact and comfortable playing experience while creating a rich and masterful sound.
Designing a better sound
In order to create the best sound possible, the Canna guitar was redesigned with a first principal mindset.
The innovative double-top construction is creating a much more flexible and lighter top which is giving unprecedented volume, sustain and attack while having a strong base and beautiful overtones.
The round Hempstone body reflects the sound-waves created by the top more efficiently creating more lively volume compared to a square one.
The Model M
The Model M is my medium sized body. It is suited for a wide range of applications.
It comes with a cutaway soundhole and a side soundport.
It’s a very compact feeling guitar with lots of power, but slightly less bass than the MD.
The Sonowood Series
These guitars are based on the Model M and feature a unique and patented ‘sonoveneer‘ top.
Giving you those stunning designs with a warm and beautiful balanced sound while being
exceptionally durable and scratch-resistant.
Modified Dreadnought – MD
Thee Canna MD not only has a bigger body than the Model M and therefore stronger bass response.
I redesigned the body shape to make the guitar better balanced and less round at the contact point to the player’s leg, which provides more grip and a more familiar playing experience while maintaining the slim feel of a roundback Canna guitar.
All in all it sits better, feels more like what people are used to and has a bigger sound with more low-end.
CannaJazz
Archtop guitar
This Archtop guitar has a top that isn’t carved, it’s laminated in my usual doubletop fashion utilizing a Nomex honeycomb layer in between two ~1mm spruce plates. This way the top becomes super light at about 100g.
Furthermore the fibers are following the curve and aren’t ‘cut’ which should give it (in theory) an even better stiffness to weight ratio.
The tailpiece design is inspired by Ken Parker and my Logo.
The bridge is also hollowed out in the middle, again, inspired by Ken Parker.
The Harry Häussel ‘FlatJazz’ Humbucker is mounted on two rails which allow it to be slided in and out all the way to the bridge.
Canna EVO
This Guitar is the evolution of my regular Hempstone roundback guitars using solid wood.
The shape of the body provides a much tighter fit to the body than traditionally built guitars, while maintaining a big body volume.
The side sound port is directed at the player and provides a huge bass response.
I also tilted the sides of this guitar inwards, making the footprint of the back smaller than the top.
This is not only giving the instrument a better structural integrity, but also a slimmer and more dynamic look
Canna Classic Crossover
My interpretation of a classical Canna guitar.
It’s built on the same base like my steelstrings. So it has great accessability of the high frets.
Due to the solid frame construction it has exceptionally long sustain and a great attack.
I also have designed a ‘guitar lift’ made out of brass and leather to facilitate the classic 45° playing style.
CannaBass
The CannaBass brings the look, feel and sound of the CannaGuitar to the bassworld.
For those who want to explore the possibilities of an acoustic bass while having the feeling and playability of an electric.
CannaCaster
This is CannaCaster model is made with a hempstone covered body. The same material I use for my acoustics.
The idea behind the T-style layout is, so that you could just get the body from me and build your own custom CannaCaster!
Canna’lele
The Canna’lele design is based on the principles I use to build my regular guitars.
The concave body also allows for a very compfortable playing experience.
Currently there are sopran, classic and tenor and bariton size availiable.
Sopran
Concert
Tenor
Bariton
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Who are the people involved ?
The Canna Guitar is created in cooperation with Norbert Schmid from drumparam
Jakob Frank, Canna Guitars
designer and creator
of the Canna Guitar
Jakob Frank, Canna Guitars
Designer (BA) , Luthier
Norbert Schmid, Drumparam.at
Hempstone Experte and creator of the Hemstone Bodies