Roger Fisher and Creating His Custom Guitars 

I'm so glad Heart happened.. would have been a great loss without them.. thanks you guys...

This man is both a genius and very humble. No matter what he ended up doing, it would have been excellence. For all the artistry he gave to Heart, he never hogged the spotlight and let the sisters have the glory. So much so that I only recently heard of him having listened to Heart since their start. I was told early on that it was Nancy doing all the fancy fretwork. Not that she is not an excellent player, but the maestro is now obvious. May he continue to prosper and create!

I actually got to play the LED guitar at Roger's house in...around...1980-81. I have a picture somewhere of Roger and me sitting in a room of his house in Redmond while he showed me some guitar tricks. Good times. 🤘😎

I remember the LED guitar. Got to meet all of the band after concert in Columbus, Oh. Ann had a little white dog with her. Howard took me back stage to see all the guitars. I got the rose off Nancy's guitar and a few red Heart picks. Ah the good ole days.

This was A Good visit with him I Love that he still sounds like He has kept his craft up He is a Really Good Guitarist created that sound for those Special Great Heart Songs! I did get to go see him with Heart long ago 79 another time ! A Really Good Friend of mine Buddy Blaze RIP posted a picture a few years ago Roger was in Dallas area Buddy was a Amazing custom Guitar Builder and Rodger was Playing a Buddy Blaze Guitar that night with a Very Heavy Heart Buddy died so Suddenly His Beautiful Amazing Wife was A Big part of The Custom Guitar shop Buddy knew so many Rock Stars he has Built for Buddy let watch The Entire process of building Guitar’s from start to finish I don’t Play but it is my Favorite part of a Rock Band Guitarist he took me to see several of my Guitar Hero’s my Passion and Hobby was going to concerts

I got to see Roger and the gals at Oakland Day on the Green in the 70s about the time I got my first Strat for Christmas! He's always been a favorite for me and I was blown away when he left Heart!😟 Roger, if you see this post,thanks for inspiring me to play and for some of the best guitar playing ever! Sincerely, Steve from the S.F. Bay Area.🎸

That Les Paul is stunning!! He should have more of those made, I'd buy one. I mean, sounds like a Les Paul but none of the drawbacks of a Les Paul? Sign me up!!

I would love to play those custom guitars.

What a great interview. This is my favorite interview of all other guitarists. Roger is very captivating. Both guitars are stunning - kimie

This year I realized he played scalloped fretboards years before Yngwie came on the scene. That blew me away. I think you can notice this in Magic Man and Barracuda music videos. My modded satin midnight blue Strat is scalloped. It’s great for bends and vibrato and finger pressure sensitivity.

I started 6 y. ago with guitar playing, but pretty soon I had the same ideas: belly cut, forearm rest, heel flatened and rounded and slimmer body on a LP. Done some of it on my LP style cheapo guitar, beside a self-cast compensated nut out of brass. Have a kit-build Tele, completelly modified, scalloped fretboard, with dual rail humbucker in middle, a different bridge sitting on 4 brass posts, floating 0,2mm above the body (LP principle, not having it sitting on laquer) , with two piezzo’s in the cavities (third to be mounted soon on a very unusual place, where I discovered to have the best sound for it), to mix them with the electric pickups. My Strat style will get soon a smaller, slimmer body with a round heel, deeper cut outs, moved vol.-knob, and even more ergonomic shape. Circuit for having neck and bridge, or all three pups on, additional to the standard.

5:24 "This is really dear to my *HEART*" lol Ya don't say Roger...?

Imagine standing at bar talking to this guy. You would just scream in his face " shut the f%£k up" with all that nobody sands wood as smooth as me. And every one he knows is a master astronaut and he's the first to do everything. God almighty his humility is astonishing.

I always loved Roger's playing in early Heart. In fact, like when Steve Hackett left Genesis and I no longer followed that band, the same applied to Heart - Bebe La Strange, being the last album that I purchased. I have all their early works on vinyl though. I too like sexy guitars. And both of those guitars of Rogers, really gave me the horn! So much so, that I felt like give them a good rogering!

Hey Rog, I love how you design your guitar bodies and this one is sweet! I totally agree it should be sensual and curvy like a woman. For a possible idea on a different color combination, I was just thinking about this... Overall color to be a flesh tone of your preference, And the pop color would be a lipstick like deep red or something and pinstriping could be the liner such as lip liner eyeliner you know accenting and punctuating like a woman does with her makeup. All natural occurring colors... I think that would bring it to life and really embody the essence of the "dream girl" aspect. Just my input , being an ARTIST and all! 🎨🖌️✌🏼😉 CHEERS my friend 🥂

Awesome Rog, I need to visit Alki Beach soon, been so long. I hear Maestro's house is now a real estate office. Amazing how fast it all went by. We need to start a new band... maybe Grey Haired Lunatics ??? We've ripened haha ha

Wow, I'm so happy and inspired to see this creativeness. I feel like you, Roger and I think much alike. The small headstock shape is basically what I did with one of my practice guitars, minus the metal plate and mine isn't an "symmetric triangle" and is a bit more round at the tip. The smallness just makes more sense. I'm always thinking how a guitar could be better, different since I too think practicality (=reducing size&weight) is very important, if it doesn't mess up tone or anything. Extra pickups, or hybrid ideas are also very useful. I too would love to play or own that beautiful Les Paul "bird" guitar. I think which colors you are attracted to tells a little bit of the nature of a person too and it totally fits what one can sense in interviews n' stuff 😉😊. An interesting subject. I dont like the shape design&paint design of the mintgreen&pink guitar though. The shape is contradictingly either too much "Salvador Dali-ish" or too little Dali boldness, which ever way one prefers, so it's in between but not in a good way. But as long as the beholder thinks it's sexy, that's all that matters really. I wish the talk could be longer and go into depth and details. Such cool stuff by a cool creative man. 🎼🎶🎸♥️

Cool information...Thanks... Cheers Bob

Interesting twist on guitar construction with the titanium bridge block and fingerboard. I've been thinking for years that a bridge made of the tool material FerroTiC would be interesting. It's a powder metal product with Titanium Carbide particles bonded in a matrix of hardened tool steel. It has a very high modulus to density ratio, which should increase its sensitivity at higher frequencies.

The 4/2 tuning peg configuration has been a long time design of Music Man...still love Rog.

the use of titanium is very interesting

Not knowing what I was doing in 1976 I built an Flying V with a Stratocaster neck sold it to Larry’s guitar shop in Bothell Washington I was told later that Roger Fisher bought the guitar. Someday I’d like to find out if it was true

4:55

"nobody sands stuff as smooth as i do"

I use small raised stickers to mark the back of my guitar. I don’t know why all guitars aren’t marked. It makes it easier to play when not looking at the frets

I can just hear the #METOO crowd after this interview LOL

3:36 bluguitar amp 1 spotted

Way to go Ken J. you master welder

is there truss rod adjustment on the guitar wit the titanium?

From the little that he played it sounds like a very resonant instrument!

The Pink Lady Strat has active electronics? I saw a 9V battery cover on the back.

Roger I am sorry but you were not the first guy to cut the Heel off a LP, My best bud is a luthier and he did that YEARS ago...he also built my custom with not an ounce of plastic anywhere.

My Les Paul Sawed up , believe it was a '56 or '59 or something , Yeah! Right!

Wow...to take a file and saws , chisel to a 59....just wow...

Let's not get our underwear in a bundle over cutting up a guitar to make it into a functional piece of art in it's own right. Besides, I can remember passing up gold top Les Pauls in the 70's being sold as 2nd hand guitars in music shops to buy the latest thing which happened to be an Electra for the same money. Nobody knew of vintage in those days. I'd love a chance at those $300 dollar gold tops I passed on today!

He said that was a 50's Les Paul...... but the neck had a volute on it. More than likely it was an early 70s Les Paul.

I'm wondering if those aren't Lace Sensors

Good thing I can hear Roger because I sure can't hear Elliot. What the heck? He's not speaking to a guy in a bar. This is Roger Fisher. Get a mike on that guy. Love you, Rog.

I would bet a lot of money that shape was inspired by Nancy's perfect little backside haha...

What a nut. I really had to wonder where he was going here..."A woman could really have some fun with this guitar... I bought the most gaudy shade of pink paint. And Linda, my girlfriend..."

12:40 time warp?? Wtf happened. Strat to Les paul

This just in, his guitars just filed a sexual harassment lawsuit.

a woman could have some fun with that guitar? cool instrument, but oh man lol.

Those guys have weird hair.

that poor les paul!

Dude wrote some great riffs long ago, but damn them guitars ain't pretty.

Sorry, but that guitar is hideous looking....

Roger needs to stick to playin guitar!