Legacy Model Three — ALBA
Alba is the newest Myooz Model Three, and perhaps the clearest expression yet of what I wanted this model to become.
When we developed Model Three, the idea was to take the visual language that defines Myooz Guitars—the interlocking wood pattern inspired by an old hand-woven Transylvanian rug—and explore it in a completely different construction. Instead of a traditional solid body, Model Three combines a lightweight hollow mahogany structure with individual mahogany and maple pieces suspended within resin, surrounded by a bent mahogany edge.
The first guitar built this way was Nocturne: dark, dramatic and deliberately high-contrast.
Alba takes the same idea in the opposite direction.
Its warm mahogany and maple pattern is surrounded by an off-white resin body, creating a softer, quieter aesthetic. Natural wood remains visible around the entire perimeter of the instrument, while nickel hardware and an ebony fingerboard complete the design. Where Nocturne was conceived around contrast and impact, Alba is about elegance and restraint.
But Alba was never intended to be simply a design object.
At its core, it is built as a professional instrument. Alba has a 25.5-inch scale, 12-inch fingerboard radius, set mahogany neck reinforced with carbon fiber rods, Pau Ferro fingerboard and stainless-steel frets with individually finished hemispherical ends. A Schaller Signum wraparound bridge and locking tuners complete the hardware.
The electronics remain deliberately simple: two humbuckers, one volume, one tone and a three-way selector. The pickups are hand-wired 1959 PAF-style humbuckers by Pete A. Flynn, paired with traditional 1959-style wiring and a .022 µF capacitor.
One of the things I find most interesting about Alba is that it shares its fundamental construction and electronics with Nocturne, yet it has its own personality as an instrument. That has always been important to me. These guitars are built individually, and I don’t want them to feel like identical objects coming from a production line. The materials, the construction and the small differences inherent in building each instrument by hand give every guitar its own voice.
Model Three itself also represents an evolution for Myooz. Its hollow internal structure dramatically reduces the amount of wood and resin required compared with the original concept, resulting in an instrument that is lighter and more resonant while retaining the sculptural quality of the design.
And there are details that aren’t immediately visible. The electronics cavity is integrated into the pattern on the back and closed with a magnetically attached cover, eliminating visible screws. The natural mahogany edge is individually formed around the body. Even the pickup covers were created specifically to become part of Alba’s visual language rather than simply hardware placed on top of it.
That balance—between an unusual object and a serious musical instrument—is at the center of what I want Myooz Guitars to be.
Alba doesn’t try to hide how different it is.
It simply expresses that difference more quietly.
Alba — Myooz Model Three
Inspired by tradition, built for legacy.