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8-string Aristides (Phil Manansala), the Bonvillain build tied to Phil Manansala
Pictured · 8-string Aristides (Phil Manansala)
Of Mice & Men

Phil Manansala

The guitar

Aristides 8-string made for Phil Manansala (Of Mice & Men)

Phil Manansala plays guitar in Of Mice & Men, a band that came out of the Southern California metalcore scene and has spent more than a decade touring on it. His playing sits in the low, extended-range end of the modern metal vocabulary.

The studio finished an eight-string Aristides for him. Aristides bodies are a single resin composite rather than wood, which means the finish behaves differently than it does on anything else in the catalog – one of the more technically awkward pieces the shop has taken on.

The players on this page own or were given a Bonvillain piece. They are not sponsored by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Bonvillain Design Studio, and their appearance here is not an endorsement of the studio.