It is often scary to go where you haven’t gone before, cause you can never quite know what you find until you take the leap. Professor Pierre Aronnax, his assistant Conseil and the harpoonist Ned Land are captured by Captain Nemo, who travels the worlds oceans on board the. The lesson I learned? To trust my gut feeling and not hesitate on taking crazy challenges that don’t necessarily appear to make any sense on first glance. At his signal the anchor was lowered, but its chain barely ran because the bottom lay no more. And as a result of all the fun, I happened to stumble on a novel idea of the vacuum tube powered pickup, later to be known as the Valvebucker®.įirst I thought it would be more like a super cool detail in a one-off custom guitar with a strong steampunk vibe to it – but it turned out to be so much more. Captain Nemo stood up from his thwart and studied the sea.

But at the same time, it lead me to the very source of creativity – joyous, childlike play. It tells the story of the incredible journey of mysterious Captain Nemo and. The project took over five years to complete, and in one way it was completely senseless. A game based on 20000 Leagues under the Sea, a famous novel by Jules Vernes. You know, digging up old historic facts of what was going on in the end of 19th century, and conjuring up “the first electric guitar in the world”.

I was just so absolutely fascinated with the story of it. I dived into the project head first, without really considering if it made sense or not. This guitar taught me an important lesson. Lots of references to some of Jules Verne's stories, including Mysterious Island, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth. I built the guitar personally, except the beautiful tailpiece and headstock wood carvings were made by Jani Rinta-keturi. Captain Nemo's backstory is explored in an interesting Victorian era spinoff. The conceptual design of the Captain Nemo ended up as a mashup of the Unicorn design and features of violin and classical guitar. Captain Nemo, whose name is Latin for 'nobody', is a Jules Verne character and the focal point of the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, published in 1873 after its serialization beginning in. The Captain Nemo surprised me – not only by how fascinating ways history and fantasy entwined together in the design, but also by the outstanding tone of the tube driven active pickup that I developed together with Jyrki and Jorma Kostamo. We made a video for the show – the Captain Nemo being our show center piece. Just in time to be introduced at the first edition of The Holy Grail Guitar Show in Berlin. I didn’t obviously know it at the time, but that question would plunge me onto this fantastic imaginary journey through an alternative past, mashing up actual historic events to science fiction and fantasy.įinally, in 2014, I got the Captain Nemo guitar ready. What if the electric guitar would have been invented in 1895? Could you please make me that guitar? My client asked me these questions back in 2008.

Captain nemo