Omer Deutsch of OD Guitars | Creating Guitars With AI & Staying Contemplative

Life With Strings Attached

I'm very pleased to have Omer Deutsch of OD Guitars on this week's episode of Life With Strings Attached. Originally trained as an industrial designer, Omer worked in product design for seven years before starting his guitar making business in 2016. Since then, he’s made guitars for many artists, mostly in the world of metal, including players such as Roman Ibramkhalilov of Jinjer and Daniel Tompkins of Tesseract.
Omer is also a true hobbyist, flying remote controlled airplanes, riding freestyle BMX and building with Lego – he was even part of a Lego commercial involving his guitars. In this episode, Omer reflects on meeting his childhood hero at the NAMM Show and how he keeps his curiosity alive by building guitars for people around the world today. I very much enjoyed our conversation, and I hope that you do too.

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Building guitars in the middle of a war (00:01:14)

3. Set your protocols (00:16:55)

4. Connection is the true value of custom guitars (00:24:10)

5. A word from our sponsor (00:34:20)

6. Mice, snakes and odd connections (00:34:46)

7. Hobbies and the loss of contemplation (00:40:45)

8. How Omer was featured in a Lego advert (00:50:50)

9. Join us on Patreon for more content (01:09:52)

10. BMX and meeting your childhood heroes (01:10:31)

11. Using AI to build guitars (01:21:12)