Stereordinary's Guitar Design Challenge #1

[Mad-Mike]

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If I were to do this, it'd be a 100% scratch build...

- 3 piece maple neck
- neck is bolt on but recessed into the body like a Mosrite, and the body and neck transition into each other smoothly to make upper fret access comfortable
- maple fretboard
- acrylic headstock face
- 25.5" scale
- medium frets
- Jag-Stang neck profile
- 10 degree headstock tilt (no string trees)
- neck has chambering inside
- classical cut headstock with Steinberger tuners (allowing for classical-style tuner setup at headstock that aids tuning stability)
- new Fender Mustang derived vibrato with a special adjustable magnetic stabilizer setup inside so it always returns to 0. Case hardened knife edges
- Special pickups with 2 neodymium magnets with opposing poles mounted side by side, and then one coil of wire (single coils basically)

[Flurko]

Really like your thinking with that headstock, nice!

Agreed.

Thanks y'all!

New drawing with a side view :
(you can right click > "show image" to see the full resolution)

[CROSS_guitars]

Here's my dodgy design.

The "Slay Queen"



Borrowing from the Teisco May Queen and Billy Bo Jupiter.

[dougk]

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I really like this. Reminds me a lot of Pagelli's shape. (which is a good thing). That headstock is so genius I kind of want to steal it.

[Flurko]

I really like this. Reminds me a lot of Pagelli's shape. (which is a good thing). That headstock is so genius I kind of want to steal it.

Thank you !
I just looked up various Pagelli guitars, and I see what you're saying, they make some really beautiful offset archtops. As for me, I came up with the shape by moving around a tracing of an old Maton archtop I had in Illustrator to make it offset, a stroke of luck on that one.

I would love to see this headstock in the real world, but I'm not in any position to build guitars from scratch, at least not this year or the year after. Love your work, hit me up if you want to work together on that!

[vale]

Here's my dodgy design.

The "Slay Queen"



Borrowing from the Teisco May Queen and Billy Bo Jupiter.

quite like that. hints of the guild jetstar & vox teardop too. maybe a bit annoying to try to play sitting down though. & jag trem i would def lose. looks a bit stuck on. an original design in keeping with rest would be pref.

[noisepunk]

[Blitzwit]

Here's a design I made about a year and a half ago. Just imagine the bridge pickup as two jag pickups close together at a slant and the fret markers would look kind of like the hills in super Mario 3, like rounded squares that start from the top or bottom edge.

[RobDux]

I might be a little late to this one given that the new challenge is up but here's my attempt.

Not quite finished as it's been a bit of an exercise in frustration trying to teach myself a new bit of CAD software.
Challenge #1 - Reverse offset by Rob, on Flickr

There would be a shot of the back but making a decent looking neck profile has eluded me thus far. Not quite sure why the fretboard is glowing either...

[Stereordinary]

Great submissions guys!