Quite nice different guitar of the day

Kittyfrisk

Very nice looking guitar there, thoughtfully done with real care.
I reckon Roger Rossmeisl would have been pleased to have done it 

mikem8634

That is a lovely thing indeed. Tiny touch of a Ric 620 in that upper horn and the spirit of a Danelectro Wild Thing in the curves. The overall aesthetic is really stylish and high end, Personally I'd prefer some surrounds for those pickups, probably chrome to match the other hardware. It'd be a nice touch if the headstock echoed the body routing - a bit like the 6 inline Fano ones but not relic'd perhaps.

WezV

Kalimna said:

RaymondLin said:

Imaging binding on that, on both levels.

I reckon routing out a channel from upper-level-face to bottom-level binding depth initially. The routing away the bottom level, then routing upper level binding channel.

i would just do one deeper channel all the way round.  Its the way Kauer do it on the bound  Banshee models



i don't think it would be as neat if the binding followed the steps

Kalimna

I do like the whole Kauer look - very clean lines. However Im not sure I agree that a stepped binding wouldn't look as neat. I think it would just look different. But then, especially where aesthetics are concerned, it would be a very boring existence if we all liked the same thing!

Philly_Q

It's a very nice design.  I'd like to see the whole thing though, with the headstock, to see if it ruins the look.

WezV

Kalimna said:

I do like the whole Kauer look - very clean lines. However Im not sure I agree that a stepped binding wouldn't look as neat. I think it would just look different. But then, especially where aesthetics are concerned, it would be a very boring existence if we all liked the same thing!

Maybe I'm struggling to see it,  whereas I know the Kauer approach works well.

There are obviously a couple of ways you could approach stepped binding, and I'm not sure I would be happy with either of them.

Anyway, given this guitars contours, there would be more difficult decisions than that to make.

Kalimna

Hmmm, thinking about it, I wonder how just having the blue portion with binding would look?

digitalscream

Looks familiar - is that one of the ones from the Unofficial Great Guitar Build-Off?

StefB

Philly_Q said:

It's a very nice design.  I'd like to see the whole thing though, with the headstock, to see if it ruins the look.

He's keeping us all in suspense - no 17,000th fret if he doesn't hurry up and fess up...

thegummy

Pretty cool without a doubt.

Greatape

Bit reminiscent of this http://www.warwick.de/en/Framus---Products--Guitars-and-Amps--E-Guitars--Custom-Shop---Masterbuilt--Basic-Guitar-Models--Idolmaker--Idolmaker--Idolmaker--6-string--Pictures.html

ICBM

rawk100 said:

That looks lovely, Framus do a similar style with some of their guitars.

Idolmaker. I wasn't aware of these at all until I was looking for something completely unrelated just now and one came up in the Google search.



That said, I think the one posted here is much nicer - the more minimalist modern design works better in my opinion, and the hardware on the Framus looks clunky and old-fashioned by comparison.