What guitar shape is this?

olafgarten

I was looking at Guitar Kits from Guitar Kit World.com, and came across this. I think it is a Mustang, but I was always under the impression that the Mustang body was longer, and the belly shape was different. Guitar Kit World describe it as an "MU Guitar Kit".

 

ICBM

It's not far away from a Jag-Stang, which is a sort of lopsided bastard child of a Jaguar and a Mustang. It's not exact though.

olafgarten

ICBM said:

It's not far away from a Jag-Stang, which is a sort of lopsided bastard child of a Jaguar and a Mustang. It's not exact though.

I was thinking something like that, but the top left on the Jagstang is less rounded, the Jagstang also has a shorter scale length.

GuitarMonkey

olafgarten said:

Guitar Kit World describe it as an "MU Guitar Kit".

 

"MU" - mixed up? messed up?

olafgarten

GuitarMonkey said:

olafgarten said:

Guitar Kit World describe it as an "MU Guitar Kit".

 

"MU" - mixed up? messed up?

Either way it is a nice shape, I wonder if anyone makes a decent guitar in this shape without going fully custom.

olafgarten

https://guitarkitworld.com/product/6-string-guitar-kits/mu-guitar-kit/

Here is the link, I also noticed it comes with a S/S/S Pickguard and Strat Bridge, it is just like a disfigured Strat.

olafgarten

It very closely resembles a Fender Bass VI, or the Warmoth copy at least.

ICBM

olafgarten said:

I was thinking something like that, but the top left on the Jagstang is less rounded, the Jagstang also has a shorter scale length.

You can't always go by the scale length - for example Warmoth do a 'Swinger' (originally 22.5"-scale) body designed for a modern 25.5"-scale neck.

It does actually remind me strongly of something else too, but I can't quite recall it just now. I think the whatever it was also had two angled single-coils a bit like a Mustang, but I could be wrong.

Definitely nothing like a Mustang shape though.

timmysoft

That's pretty much the shape of the ibanez road core

ICBM

timmysoft said:

That's pretty much the shape of the ibanez road core

No, that's not what I'm thinking of. Nor is a Westone Cutlass, which I checked earlier! The whatever-I'm-thinking-of does have a switch on the lower horn too, I think.

This is getting irritating .

olafgarten

I sent them an email, and they said it was a modified mustang.

dchwhite

ICBM said:

timmysoft said:

That's pretty much the shape of the ibanez road core

No, that's not what I'm thinking of. Nor is a Westone Cutlass, which I checked earlier! The whatever-I'm-thinking-of does have a switch on the lower horn too, I think.

This is getting irritating .

jt60?

EricTheWeary

Reminiscent of some of the Reverend shapes, although not identical. 

Maybe even a Firebird X !

meltedbuzzbox

looks quite close to the Marauder reissue as well

meltedbuzzbox

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q695/meltedbuzzbox/IMAG1043_zpscd53fc24.jpg

ICBM

Ah, that looks like it - I'd forgotten about those. Did they do one with a toggle switch and two angled pickups as well? Or am I still thinking about something else?

meltedbuzzbox

I think thats a cyclone?

The is the Jaguarillo thing as well and some pawnshop varieties. 

Sarge

Marauder?