Roger C. Field (London, July 31, 1945) is British industrial designer, inventor with more than 100 patents on his name and guitarist. He is best known by his invention of the Foldaxe, a folding electric guitar. Life and work
Field grew up in London, Canterbury and Switzerland. He visited the interns The King's School, Canterbury and Aiglon College in Villars-sur-Ollon. He left for California in 1965 and studied Industrial Design with a diploma from the California College of the Arts. In 1972 he came to Germany. Field is also known as a guitarist and played with Chet Atkins, with whom he was friends, and with Merle Travis.
His most famous invention is the Foldaxe, a folding electric guitar that he made for Chet Atkins. The guitar is featured in Atkin's book Me and My Guitars. Field took one of his Foldaxe guitars in a Concorde and played the song Mr. Sandman on September 30, 1987 as an advertising gag "through the noise barrier". With the guitar, Field won an important Design's Choice Award in the United States. He was also congratulated by Raymond Loewy in writing.
Field has photographed numerous Foldaxe prominents, including Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Hank Marvin, David Copperfield, and Eric Clapton. It is due to Roger Field's efforts that Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch appealed for more than ten years, and a farewell tour of their old band The Shadows by resp. Great Britain (2004) and Europe (2005).
Marcel Dadi composed his song Roger Chesterfield for Roger Field (CD Guitar Legend Volume 1).
Field is known worldwide as Arnold Schwarzenegger's friend and teacher English in Munich in 1968.
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